ONE Prayer Movement

Many of you already know that we here at GCC are deeply involved in the ONE Prayer movement. Around about this past May, the team at Life Church dared to ask what would happen if churches around the world got together as One Body for the purpose of sharing teaching, worship and mission for four weeks. The project was called ONE Prayer, and ended up being something HUGE! As churches began to stack in from all over the globe, the "end number" of those participating numbered just over 1,700 from as far away as India and China to as near as the church on the corner of your street, and GCC participated as well, hearing from Wayne Cadero (at New Hope Fellowship), Craig Groeschel (LifeChurch.tv) and our own Mark Beeson.

As part of this initiative, we were asked by the team at Life Church to run the "Mission" component for the entire campaign. Due to our long history in India and the relative level of success we've had there in partnering with grass-roots networks of indigenous Smart Zombies (aka "church planters"), we pitched an idea to see if the ONE Prayer network might partner in 4 geographies to plant a total of 500 churches. The 4 target geographies are Sudan, India, Cambodia and China, and at last count, over $740,000 has been raised through the network to ensure that such will be possible.

I'm excited to say that to date, our partners in India (Life Mission International) have already begun training the first batch of 150 planters, and Cambodia, China and Sudan have also begun their initiatives as well. You can track the progress of the entire movement by clicking here, and we'll be posting regularly with both video, "hard metric" and "blog-style" posts on a weekly basis.