Prayer Map

The map above is how our mission travels are shaping up for this summer. It's still tentative in many regards, but is starting to settle in. We plan to be gone four months, maybe five, depending on things back here at home. Our plans are very much, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” (James 4:15)

Several destinations orient our travels because of existing churches or ongoing conversations that we believe will be fruitful: Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kansas, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. But there's a lot in between! And different ways to get to the different places. So we are praying and looking for open doors.

Like I wrote last week, the goal is to plant and encourage microchurches. But that doesn't preclude conventional church ministry, it just means we're looking to connect with people who are drawn to the beauty of the simpler church model. I am planning to connect with a couple other house church networks, as well as a Bruderhof community which lives communally. I look forward to those conversations, not that we are looking to join them, but that I want to learn from them.

Would you spend some time praying over this map? And if you know any people in these areas that we should try to connect with, please email me and let me know, and pray for that to happen. Also pray for the chance conversations we'll have along the way, as this mode of travel and living is filled with conversations.

The actual destinations (as of today) are below.

1. Harrisonburg, VA
2. Lancaster, PA
3. Farmington, PA
4. Berlin, OH
5. St Mary's, OH
6. Shipshewana/Goshen/Elkhart, IN
7. Easton, IN
8. Hazelton, ID
9. Yakima/Selah, WA
10. Portland/Canby/Estacada/Camas (WA)/Corvallis, OR
11. The Woodlands, TX

And here's the prayer. It's from Colossians 4. "Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ... Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should."

Thank you!