Agree 18
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n January 2018, the Church of God International
Offices paused for Agree 18. Each evening, a live-
streamed prayer meeting took place coordinated
by Doug Small. The prayer event was a lively collage
of information, inspiration and intercession featuring
a variety of church leaders, missionaries, local pastors,
and students who led in a time of prayer for the nations
and world.
Members of the International Executive Committee,
the World Missions leadership team, and others,
challenged viewers and those present in the studio.
Simultaneous intercessors took phone calls, and
collected prayer requests from social media.
Engagement among social media and livestream
viewers topped over 100,000, a sign of the move of the
Spirit that reached beyond the walls of the International
Offices. Total engagement approached half-a-million!
In 2019, they will conduct this three-day revival and
prayer convocation once again. o
21-DAY VIRTUAL
PRAYER MEETING
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his was the third year of the Virtual Prayer Meeting.
Christians joined other followers and thousands of
churches across the nation in prayer for revival in
the church and awakening in the culture.
In 2018, the call was hosted by 13 denominations or
movements. Thousands joined the prayer call each night
for 22 nights in January. New for 2018, the call was live
streamed on Facebook and the americapray.net website.
The response was overwhelming with social media
connections approaching 700,000.
Special guests included Alton Garrison, Assistant
Superintendent of the Assemblies of God; Tom Phillips,
Vice President of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association;
Kay Horner, the Awakening America Alliance; and Michael
Obi, African Strategic Prayer Leaders Network and many
more. In this sense, the call is historic. It was not one
church or organization, but many, together, praying as
one voice for the same cause – revival and awakening. It
is clear. We seem to be getting the message. Our only hope
is a ‘great awakening’ in the culture and a revival in the
church, and both come on the wings of prayer.
With so many different first-of-the-year prayer
avenues and with limited resources, we regret not to offer
the Virtual Prayer Meeting for 2019. We hope that folks
will engage in the various prayer campaigns promoted
across the nation. One such resource is the Awaken prayer
and fasting guide written by Doug Small and Claude King.
Daily devotions and prayer exercises from the guide will
also be posted on Doug Small’s blog and emailed each
day. Sign-up to receive the daily emails and learn more at:
projectpray.org/awaken.
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