Highlights from 2011

Here are only a few highlights from an exciting 2011...

• For the third year, we operated the Boiler Room in uptown Greenville. Our missionary staff and interns were able to host an average of 15-20 hours of corporate prayer meetings per week - not individual prayer shifts, but “two or more gathered” in Jesus’ name (Matthew 18:20), either in devotional or intercessory worship and prayer.
• Hosted the spring 2011 Secret Place Internship with two part-time interns.
• We continued to host theBurn, a monthly extended (at least five hours) gathering of non-stop vertical worship and prayer for eastern North Carolina. One goal for 2012 is to grow the length and attendance at theBurn.
• We partnered with intentional and strategic prayer for missionaries and ministries such as Building Hope Community Life Center, Hope of Glory Ministries, Elevate Campus Clubs, Certain Hope Ministries, Mike and Rebekah Gervasi (YWAM), Will and Joanna Luper (Christian Educator’s Outreach), as well as local pastors, student ministers and government officials. We provided “air coverage” of prayer for the “ground war” of evangelism and justice, sometimes praying strategically on-site before events. The results of our united efforts were many people putting their faith in Christ and the continuing transformation of cities.
• A recent Daily Reflector article indicates that the crime rate in Greenville dropped again in 2011, as it has the past three years. This is an ongoing answer to our prayer that God’s kingdom would come in Greenville as in heaven.
• A few dozen pastors and local leaders united in the courtroom of the Pitt County Courthouse on October 31st and asked for God’s rain on the Halloween festivities. That night, rain literally came and the typical party scene was a ghost town - some of the bars even closed early!
• Students, ministers, young adults and others continue to walk into 6:22 events, find a place of refreshment and encounter the presence of the living God, being changed from glory to glory (2 Corinthians 3:18)!