Prayer Support

I sent an email yesterday to a number of friends asking for prayer. I believe so much in CONTACT, that I'm desperate to prepare the way in prayer. Would you consider joining us in prayer? The contents are below:

The month of May is starting tomorrow, and it is a strategic month for SRC. For one thing it is the month that SRCers will be signing up for their small groups. Small groups are the life of SRC. Without them, we are just a hollow shell. But more importantly if we are going to accomplish our mission of Making Disciples, Baptizing Them, and Teaching Them To Obey God’s Word, then each SRCer should be involved in Large Group, Small Group, and Prayer Group. That is one reason why May is a strategic month or SRC.

The other is that in the month of May I will be rallying our church to an initiative called CONTACT. It is an initiative to contact our community in an unprecedented way. I have set a goal of contacting 1500 people from the community surrounding the college where we meet. I can’t accomplish that alone. I’ll be asking our church to participate in a number of activities throughout the summer (June-Sept) that will put us in contact with 1500 people.

Our goal is simple CONTACT 1500 people. Our motivation is much more personal. You see, we value cultivating community connection. We seek to answer the question, “If Severn River Church stopped existing tomorrow what would our community miss?” We done some good things so far in this start-up, but at this point we haven’t yet fully gotten the pulse of our community’s needs.

Would you help me? I need your prayers. I would like to ask that you would commit to praying for CONTACT for the 31 days of May. That’s 31 times that you’ll stop and say, “God would you help Ben and SRC to make CONTACT this summer.” It is such an undertaking that I feel without your prayers, we’re destined to fail. I’m interested in doing CONTACT with the philosophy that we pray like it all depends on God, and work like it all depends on us. I need your prayers.

This is how I’m asking you to commit:

1. Make a note to pray and put it somewhere that you’ll see it all 31 days.
2. Email me back to let me know I can count on you for prayer. (ben@severnriverchurch.com)

“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he is and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.” Hebrews 11:6