Key Objective
To bring together prayer leaders, intercessors, church and marketplace leaders, children and youth to accelerate the development of an ongoing, interactive global prayer movement towards the fulfillment of Habakkuk 2:14, that “the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord”.
Why?
- The first International Prayer Assembly held in Korea in 1984 was a powerful rocket thrust that ignited many of the national and regional prayer efforts we see in force today. (Please see the video Celebrating God’s Wonder’s in the Global Prayer Movement on the IPC website www.ipcprayer.org under “Resources” on the huge impact of the IPA.)
- It is time to again connect more intentionally the diverse strands of the prayer movement in order to celebrate and learn from what God has been doing through it. We should steward, maximize and extend past and current efforts to prayer-network the Body of Christ through the Global Day of Prayer, 24/7 youth prayer, houses of prayer, the International Prayer Council, Children in Prayer, 4-14 Window initiative, marketplace prayer ministries, and many other national, regional and international networks and initiatives.
- We need to hear from the Lord of the Church corporately what He will reveal concerning the role of the global prayer movement in His purposes for Earth and to understand more deeply the part united, transformational prayer plays in such key issues as world evangelization, spiritual revival, social justice, humanitarian emergencies along with many other international, regional and national concerns.
- We need to coordinate our efforts and make plans for future prayer mobilization, so that every nation, city and rural area throughout the world becomes filled with ongoing intercession (“open heaven”) resulting in Spirit-inspired action until His Kingdom with its values are manifested there.
- The WPA will assess what the Body of Christ has experienced through the worldwide explosion of prayer efforts since the last IPA in 1984 and will enable cross-fertilization and connection of a much larger cross-section of prayer ministries from all traditions and segments of the Church.
- It will encourage the next generation to become the cutting edge leadership of the global prayer movement, enabling children and younger leaders to be front and center as equal partners in it.
When and Where?
- May 14-18, 2012
- Jakarta, Indonesia as the venue co-hosted by the Indonesian and Korean prayer movements
Size and Constituency?
- 3000 prayer network leaders, intercessors, and church/ marketplace/ political/ media leaders from all 220 nations (adults, youth and children) plus thousands more from the host nation.
- Internet video streaming and satellite TV transmission to enable many more to participate.
Please pray with us, give us your frank suggestions, and as the Lord leads us, let’s move forward together towards making the WPA a reality in 2012. For more information contact: office@ipcprayer.org
John Robb
Chairman, International Prayer Council and International Prayer Connect |
