By Lane Moore, Director of Missions of the Northwest Louisiana Baptist Association
SHREVEPORT – Southern Baptists are known for preacher meetings, business meetings and concerts, why not a prayer meeting?
The Northwest Louisiana Baptist Association will have its first ever association-wide prayer meeting Jan. 31. With the spiritual state of affairs that we see in our cities, state and nation, it’s long overdue.
This idea came from last summer’s Southern Baptist Convention.
SBC President, Ronnie Floyd lead several thousand messengers through a night of prayer on Tuesday of the convention. It was one of best planned and organized sessions of a national convention that I had attended in a long time. During the Call For Spiritual Awakening on that evening last June, I knew I needed to call Northwest Association to prayer corporately.
Northwest Louisiana Baptist Association Director of MIssions Lane Moore
Working around 123 church’s calendars and regular schedules is a challenge. First Baptist Church of Bossier City helped me settle on a date and agreed to host the Prayer Event. About half of our 123 churches have Sunday night worship and we have asked them to join us that evening for prayer.
We will follow the model Dr. Floyd used at the Convention. Nearly 50 full-time and bi-vocational pastors across all ethnic lines, in addition to several layman, will lead us in specific items of prayer.
There will be seasons of corporate prayer and personal times of repentance. The evening will move quickly with sentence prayers covering dozens of subjects. There will also be times of praise as the FBC Bossier choir will lead us in worship.
The Call to Prayer will be divided into 6 segments with each section opened with short challenges from some of our pastors.
* Believing God will Answer our Prayers – Dennis Sims, Ellerbe Road
* Personal Repentance – Chuck Pourciau, Broadmoor
* Filled with God’s Power – Aaron Burgner, Summer Grove
* Revival in the Church – Gevan Spinney, FBC Haughton
* Time for Spiritual Change – Randy Harper, Bellaire
* Time to Reach the World – Brad Jurkovich, First Bossier
I believe our Association will look back on January 31, 2016 and know that we had a divine appointment with the Lord .
