We’re making a few changes to our prayer teams and we’d love to see people from across the church with the same heart in these callings connect up, share and sharpen each other.
Over the past couple of years, we’ve had a few WhatsApp groups that have been used for prayer and prophecy across the church. As they have been linked to specific courses or groups of people, they have not really been known about or available for the whole church to access. We’re excited to change that and move things forward in a way that connects people across all the sites and communities, releasing individuals into their calling in ways that bring them to life spiritually and allows us to share and support each other as one church. As such, I have decided to set up three WhatsApp groups. You are welcome to join all three groups, or two, or just one, or none - join as you feel led.
Prophecy
A group for those moving in the prophetic to share words for the church (the city, the nation, the world), or who want to draw attention to prophecies that are circulating city-wide, nationally or internationally. It will allow us to discuss the prophetic and be inspired by each other. This would also be a place where we can share invitations to training in the prophetic, or where we can ask if we need a prophetic team for an event.
Everyone Gets To Play!
Not only do we have the WhatsApp group above, but anyone who receives a word or picture from God can share them by heading to the bvc.so/prophecy page, we have team checking it during the City Centre AM service and throughout the week. This is a great way for us to collect everything God is saying to us as a community and will help open us up to hearing more from Him!
Personal Intercessors
This is for those who come to life in praying for individuals and love to pray for healing and freedom. It would be a place where we could confidentially (and with permission) pray for individuals within the church, particularly where a prayer need is a big burden for one small group to bear. It would also be the space where the team would share prayer request emails that come to us via the church website (on average about one a week).
Corporate Prayer
This space would be for those who are brought to life in praying for wider issues to do with the church, the city and the nation. Those who love to pray for particular parts of the city or leadership or who are stirred to pray when they hear the local/national/international news. The hope is that this group of people would also wish to meet up for regular prayer meetings, as they press in to see God’s Kingdom come in our church, city and nation.
The WhatsApp groups that currently exist will be replaced with the three groups above. If you’re interested in getting involved, just email Jo at jorh@birminghamvineyard.com with your phone number and she’ll add you to the right groups.