Archive for March, 2012

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   Day 20: Chaos

   Posted on March 20th, 2012 by Brooke M.

   During this Secret Church on Good Friday, April 6, we are focusing our prayer time on the people of the Horn of Africa. Throughout the weeks leading up to Secret Church we will post information and prayer requests on this blog. We invite you to join us in learning about and praying for the people of the Horn. Due to years of war and neglect, the economic, social and physical health of Somalia is terrible. More than 750,000 people are internally displaced, and 500,000 have died as a result of the fighting. Warfare, upheaval, and (Continue reading…)

2. Counting Down to Secret Church

   Posted on March 19th, 2012 by Brooke M.

   Secret Church is just three weeks away and the countdown is on! Before this week gets too busy, we wanted to let you know a couple of things. If you haven’t signed up for the simulcast yet, there’s still time! This is the last week to register and receive the study guides as part of the simulcast package. The study guide is over 220 pages long—yes, you read that correctly—so it’s really more like a small book! Register by Monday, March 26 and LifeWay will ship them directly to you. After March 26, the study (Continue reading…)

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   Day 19: Somalia

   Posted on March 19th, 2012 by Brooke M.

   During this Secret Church on Good Friday, April 6, we are focusing our prayer time on the people of the Horn of Africa. Throughout the weeks leading up to Secret Church we will post information and prayer requests on this blog. We invite you to join us in learning about and praying for the people of the Horn. Somalia is a country that has experienced great suffering throughout its history. The effects of its most recent civil war in 1991 can still be felt as clans continue to fight. However, the greatest battle that currently (Continue reading…)

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   Day 18: The Less-Evangelized Peoples of Ethiopia

   Posted on March 17th, 2012 by Brooke M.

   During this Secret Church on Good Friday, April 6, we are focusing our prayer time on the people of the Horn of Africa. Throughout the weeks leading up to Secret Church we will post information and prayer requests on this blog. We invite you to join us in learning about and praying for the people of the Horn. Thirty people groups in Ethiopia—accounting for 25 million people—have been identified as unevangelized. Pray specifically for these groups over the next few days. Many thousands of Somalis have crossed into Ethiopia, fleeing the violence at home. Ethiopian (Continue reading…)

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   Day 17: Hannah

   Posted on March 16th, 2012 by Brooke M.

   During this Secret Church on Good Friday, April 6, we are focusing our prayer time on the people of the Horn of Africa. Throughout the weeks leading up to Secret Church we will post information and prayer requests on this blog. We invite you to join us in learning about and praying for the people of the Horn. Filled with hatred towards her family for how they have mistreated her through the years, Hannah’s heart was full of darkness. When Hannah met a believer, she was living on the street, with nowhere else to turn. (Continue reading…)

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   Day 16: Children & Youth

   Posted on March 15th, 2012 by Brooke M.

   During this Secret Church on Good Friday, April 6, we are focusing our prayer time on the people of the Horn of Africa. Throughout the weeks leading up to Secret Church we will post information and prayer requests on this blog. We invite you to join us in learning about and praying for the people of the Horn. Young people make up the majority of Ethiopia’s population—70% are under the age of 30. Yet far too little ministry is focused on reaching and discipling them. Among students, ministries see incredible growth and fruitfulness despite frequent (Continue reading…)

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   Day 15: Coffee

   Posted on March 14th, 2012 by Brooke M.

   During this Secret Church on Good Friday, April 6, we are focusing our prayer time on the people of the Horn of Africa. Throughout the weeks leading up to Secret Church we will post information and prayer requests on this blog. We invite you to join us in learning about and praying for the people of the Horn. The Horn is the birthplace of coffee. Coffee is ceremonially prepared—roasted, ground, and steeped by hand—and served when guests visit, on special occasions, and—in some homes—daily. It is also an important export enjoyed by millions around the (Continue reading…)

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   Day 14: Poverty

   Posted on March 13th, 2012 by Brooke M.

   During this Secret Church on Good Friday, April 6, we are focusing our prayer time on the people of the Horn of Africa. Throughout the weeks leading up to Secret Church we will post information and prayer requests on this blog. We invite you to join us in learning about and praying for the people of the Horn. Poverty defines the lasting images of Ethiopia, from the famines of the 1980s until now. Past mismanagement and droughts made Ethiopia dependent on hundreds of thousands of tons of food aid every year. This dependency continues, unbalancing (Continue reading…)

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   Day 13: Ethiopia

   Posted on March 12th, 2012 by Brooke M.

   During this Secret Church on Good Friday, April 6, we are focusing our prayer time on the people of the Horn of Africa. Throughout the weeks leading up to Secret Church we will post information and prayer requests on this blog. We invite you to join us in learning about and praying for the people of the Horn. Located in the middle of the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia has long been at the crossroads of African and Middle Eastern societies. Ethiopia itself has existed as a sovereign nation that can be traced back some 3,000 (Continue reading…)

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    Day 12: Peoples of Djibouti

    Posted on March 10th, 2012 by Brooke M.

    During this Secret Church on Good Friday, April 6, we are focusing our prayer time on the people of the Horn of Africa. Throughout the weeks leading up to Secret Church we will post information and prayer requests on this blog. We invite you to join us in learning about and praying for the people of the Horn. Over the next few days, take time to pray for these hard-to-reach peoples in Djibouti. The Afars’ main territories are in Ethiopia and Eritrea, where there is little witness at present. In Djibouti, the primarily nomadic Afar (Continue reading…)

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