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1. Empower
Omaha Prayerwalks—
Calling believers from all over
the city to stand together in hurting areas of our city.
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Saying to hurting
neighborhoods, “You are not alone! We are the body
of Christ standing together.”
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Encouraging people to
take spiritual ownership of their neighborhood by
establishing an ongoing prayer presence.
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Status: Active and
Growing.
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Contacts: John Ewing,
Willie Barney, Femi Awodele, Dave Gehrls, Linda Reid
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First Responders—
Selected spiritual SWAT like
prayer teams who respond quickly to pray onsite
at major crime, community crisis
events and other significant attacks on the community.
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Habbakkuk says that
human bloodshed is
violence to the land and all its inhabitants.
First Responder
crime prayer teams will pray onsite within 48 hours
of violent crimes beginning with murder to cleanse
and reclaim the land to make it difficult for Satan
to kill people in our city.
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First Responder Teams
will also help to quickly mobilize the body of
Christ to prayer at crisis events in our community
like the Westroads Mall Shooting in December of
2007, the Neo-Nazi Rally at the Mexican Consulate on
Sept 1, 2007 and the Ponca Tribe Proposed Casino in
2008.
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Status: Active— but
still in early development.
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Contacts: Dave Gehrls,
John Ewing, Linda Reid
3.
Walk the Block Prayer—
Congregations, usually
after a service, walk their neighborhood in small
groups.
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As they walk, they are
looking with spiritual eyes and also looking at their
physical surroundings. They pray and then let God lead
them to other
things that need to happen in their community.
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Example from Willie
Barney: “In one housing project we noticed that the
playground was in bad shape. We prayed and then
made some calls to help get things taken care of.
We want to take this to the next level in 2008. If
every church and their partners were really looking
out for their Adopt-A-Block, getting to know
neighbors, praying, and helping in tangible ways we
will continue to see transformation.”
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Status: Active and
Growing— This is working well in North Omaha and it
should spread to other areas.
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Contacts: Willie
Barney, Femi Awodele
4. Evangelistic
Prayerwalking—
Mobilizing churches and community
groups to prayerwalk neighborhoods, praying blessing,
protection, and favor as they seek God’s heart and
priorities.
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Prepares neighborhoods
for more effective outreaches
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Combined with prayer
mapping and journaling it confirms God’s heart and
gives us the spiritual keys to the neighborhood.
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Mapping and journaling
also identifies the "Cornelius’s" that are ripening
fruit in God’s garden.
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Status: Active and
Growing— Several churches have hosted this training
and more are being scheduled.
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Contacts: Dave Gehrls
5.
Business Prayerwalking—
Prayerwalking businesses with
their owners and/or managers to ask for God’s wisdom,
protection and favor.
6.
Civic Prayerwalking—
Prayerwalking government sites
and for our leaders.
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Key areas including
City-County Chambers, Police and Fire also for
individual leaders or specific requests from civic
leaders.
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Status: Active— but
still in early development.
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Contacts: John Ewing,
Linda Reid, Femi Awodele
7. Embrace
The Heartland In Prayer Week—
Calling churches and groups to a
unified plan of prayerwalking which covers the entire
metro in one week.
8.
Repentance Prayerwalks—
Calling believers to a unified
prayerwalk of repentance as part of a national strategy
as an illustrated sermon of “Repentance in Unity” and a
public declaration of our nation’s desperate need for
God's mercy.
* These prayerwalking activities are in addition to
various other types of prayer
such as the concert style of prayer on the National Day
Of Prayer.
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