First ‘FINISH Challenge’ Prayer Event This Weekend
This Sunday, September 7, Church of God congregations around the world are being asked to take five minutes and pray for the global harvest with a focus on unreached peoples.
Dr. Tim Hill, Director of Church of God World Missions announced at the recent 75th General Assembly in Orlando, the launch of a bold initiative called The FINISH Challenge. The strategy will guide World Missions over the next few years in their effort to F – find unreached peoples; I – intercede for them; N – nurture them through support ministries and education; I – invest in them; S – send into the harvest.
Each month, a colorful bulletin insert will feature the Finish Challenge prayer initiative – the Mandate and a Meditation. A mission fact. A heart check. A focus on an unreached people group along with a daily prayer guide for the week. In September, the focus is on Albania, home to the Gheg and Tosk peoples – almost three million people who desperately need to hear the gospel, most for the first time. The nation of Albania was the world’s first atheist state. A recent Muslim initiative opened or reopened 900 mosques and distributed a million Korans. Now, there is a spiritual battle for the nation.
If Church of God congregations respond, and give only five minutes to prayer for the global harvest, once a month, the results will be a ‘million hours of prayer’ this year sown into the nations of the world in behalf of the truly never reached. That is more than a century of prayer – in one year. In addition, churches that reproduce the prayer guide can provide a five-day prayer plan following the first Sunday Finish Challenge prayer initiative.
Those who have not seen the FINISH video prayer challenge with Dr. Hill, can find it on the Church of God Prayer Ministries website. Power point prayer guides and bulletin inserts are available at www.praycog.org/million-hour-prayer-campaign.
Dr. Hill said, “The Holy Spirit has clearly spoken to my heart about the FINISH Challenge. All of us must embrace as never before the Great Commission. Until the Great Co-Mission becomes the Great Go-Mission, we have committed the Great O-Mission.” We go first on our knees, by prayer.
