God is moving in my community

Published almost 2 years ago • 2 min read

Greetings Reader!

As chapel ended last Wednesday, a few students lingered in prayer and worship. Others joined in as God began to move in a mighty way in our community.

Last night, four sanctuaries were full and overflowing -- people are coming to this tiny two stoplight town from everywhere to taste and see the love of the Father, the lordship of Jesus Christ, and the leading of the Holy Spirit back into the world.

God has been speaking his love and light and life into deep places in my heart too. I am grateful. After the traumas we each endured during the pandemic, it seems right to reset our nervous systems and remind our bodies that it is good to be in the presence of God together.

If you aren't from around here you might think this just happened. But that isn't the case. Many people have been planting seeds of prayer for many years for God's movement in and through our community.

God heard the prayer of my people and sent a missionary--HongToo to pray for revival in our community. For several years we saw him walking or jogging main street wearing a cardboard sign proclaiming this prayer. He was full of peace and joy, so it was endearing but odd.

I am so thankful he preserved with joy in this calling

Many of us have been bruised and burned by the Bride of Christ--the church--and have lost our appetite for communal faith. Like Nathanial we wonder, "can anything good come from there?". We've bandaged our wounds and limped along--desperate for a real encounter with the only true Physician of our souls and bodies.

If that's you, I want to invite you to Wilmore, Kentucky. Come, taste, and see that the Lord is good for yourself.

I'm also praying that during these holy days God would call forth his co-laborers into his harvest here and now (Luke 10:02). Young adults and wise elders would be mobilized, equipped, and sustained in member-care ministries as the healing hands of Jesus for those who are being the healing hands of Jesus in the world. I am praying that:

They would be given a vision for how missionaries are truly doing and who they truly are in God.
Their hearts would be broken wide and deep so that they might be moved with sustained compassion and intervene with wisdom, authority, and dispassion.
They would find the ancient rhythms that lead to abundant life and flow from an abiding sense of belonging and belovedness vs. a disordered attempt to fill a God-size void with accomplishments for God.
In short, that they would hear from the Resurrected Jesus directly:

“Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.” (John 20:19-23)

Would you join me in this prayer?

As God's providence would have it, we are leaving this afternoon to attend the MC2 conference in Minnesota. The theme is Engaging, Empowering, and Encouraging Today's missionary generation!

I'm giving two workshops on Missional Resilience and sharing about my new role with Valeo's Research Institute in Membercare.

My friend Danny Hunter will be representing his work with Global Church Partnerships too.

I'd be grateful for your prayers for this conference and all who will be present and how God might want to move among us.

With Expectant Hope,

Geoff Whiteman, ThM, LMFT

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