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The Harvest Linked Prayer Strategy Group

Posted by Justin Long ⋅ May 2, 2006 ⋅

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At Ethnê, an unprecendented year-long prayer and harvest effort was launched to see strategic harvest outreaches to the least-reached in each region of the world (12 regions in all) for the 90 days during and immediately following the month of global prayer. United prayer will open doors and fuel effective outreach efforts throughout the earth. The Global Prayer Digest and Ethnê are partnering together to provide a year’s worth of daily prayers for the least-reached peoples on every continent from June 2006 through May 2007. Joshua Project is teaming together with Ethnê to identify the unreached (UPG) and least-reached peoples of the earth within twelve geographical regions–one for each month of the year.

The launch of this unprecedented year-long prayer initiative for one-fourth of the world is June 2006 which is strategically aligned with this year’s Global Day of Prayer on Pentecost Sunday, June 4. The GDOP is preceded by 10 days of prayer and fasting and followed by 90 days of local outreach. (More information & resources available at www.globaldayofprayer.com… )

The following are some suggestions for getting your church, cell, network or group involved in the world’s largest harvest-prayer effort in history:

1. Provide Ethnê brochure that gives an overview of the emphasis to each member. (A master brochure is available under Resources section at www.ethne.net… and permission is given to publish and distribute.)

2. Video clips, audio clips, bulletin inserts, and prayer bookmarks on a monthly basis for each region’s least-reached peoples are available to download from the www.ethne.net… website, as well as on the 2-disk Ethnê DVD set (available by request). These are in multiple languages with video subtitles (11 languages currently).

3. Network with your church’s mission outreach and those you know who are working among UPGs throughout the world. Let them know that a major prayer concentration is coming to their part of the world! Get them to spread the word and also make requests for them to send stories about preparations and results from work that is coordinated with the prayer emphasis to prayer@ethne.net….

4. Place a high profile announcement or banner on your church’s home page, linking it further to a page just for recruiting involvement for this year’s GDOP and Ethnê’s Year of Prayer. Register your own commitment at prayer@ethne.net… in order to receive notices of new or updated resources.

5. Provide links on your web page to the Global Prayer Digest so they can pray each day… or have them sign up for a daily email version at: www.global-prayer-digest.org….

6. Send out prominently placed news with your regular church e-mailings, linking them back to your web page for more information.

7. Make announcements whenever possible.

8. PRAY in church services, small groups, families, youth groups, Sunday Schools, and individually. (Special versions of GPD available for youth and children online.)

Let Ethnê know how you are going to be a part of this emphasis so we can help gain momentum as more and more people realize this is a truly global thing. You can also communicate and ask questions via email at prayer@ethne.net….

As the current worldwide stresses and strains of human and natural disasters may remind one of Habakkuk’s complaint in Hab. 1:2-4, might we pray for and reach out to the least-reached peoples of the world in expectation of the Lord’s answer: “Look at the nations and watch – and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told” (Habbakuk 1:5).