Africa is praying for you!

The past few blogs I have sent you have been asking you to pray for Africa's AIDS victims, ministries, families, children, churches, and governments.

Let me tell you how the people of Africa are praying for you. This is good news out of Africa!

Back in May 2001 a Christian business man, Graham Powers, rented a stadium here in Cape Town and called for a day of prayer. 48,000 Africans came and prayed in repentance for sin, including racism, hatred, violence, crime, oppression and greed.

In 2002 he rented 8 stadiums and filled them with Africans praying together all on the same day. Graham called it a "Transformation Movement"

In 2003 he rented a stadium in every major city of South Africa and together they prayed for their nation and now the world. It became know as the "Global Day of Prayer". That event created 3500 prayer chains throughout South Africa and they invited the world to join them.

In 2004 they rented major stadiums throughout all of Africa and thousands of Africans prayed, for Africa, for America, for the world.

In 2005 they had prayer stadiums in 156 nations of the world, all praying the prayer of repentance at the same time.

In 2006 it grew to 199 nations and they estimated 25 million prayed together on the same day for the world.

Last May 7, the movement grew so that they filled stadiums in 220 nations with 300 million people. All praying for the world! For you!

Maybe we could all join them in May 2008. They will be praying for our world. They will be praying for our church. They will be praying for us.

Thank God for the prayer warriors in Africa who have led the way!

Ron and Barb