Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Your prayer support will be all-important to the planning of this event which is intended to be a “new paradigm” for an international congress—carried out Acts 13-style—incorporating listening to God, united prayer, and strategic implementation of world-impacting action that proceeds out of that encounter with the Lord and one another.

Prayer Concerns:

1.    Please pray for the seven planning task forces (Program, Logistics, Mobilization, Finance, Registration and Website, Youth and Children), the Media Strategy Group well as for the Prayer Support Team. We need to be led of the Lord, given His creative, anointed ideas and to all do our work diligently, joyfully and unitedly.

2.    This will not be just another prayer conference. The word “world” adds a great deal of complexity and challenge to the planning process since we hope to have about 5000 ministry leaders from all 220 nations. Please pray for excellent organization on the part of the Indonesians and Koreans who are co-hosting the event, for the International Coordination Team, and for the right people from every nation to hear about the WPA and be able to come to Jakarta for it.

3.    The WPA Planning and Prayer Retreat will happen in Jakarta, January 23-27. It will be a crucial time for about 50 of us on the wider WPA planning team team to meet together for a time of bonding relationally, praying together to get His mind on the way forward and to update each other on progress made and what needs to be done during the coming year.

4.    Some leaders that are key to the WPA process are: the Indonesian and Korean national committees who will co-host the event and the WPA International Coordination Team (14) that provides overall oversight. Please pray for His guidance, protection and provision for each of us. The spiritual battle, as you can imagine, is and will be intense.

Here are the two Scripture passages that have particularly inspired us in arranging the WPA:

•    The Church Becoming United- that all followers of Christ may be one so that the world may believe.  (John 17:20-26)

•    Our World Being Transformed-that “the earth may be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea”. (Hab.2:14)

Thanks so much for your gracious help through prayer that will mean so much, not just to those of us doing the planning and organizing, but also to our world that will be affected by the WPA.