Win the world through prayer

I don't think there is a day that goes by at Pill Corps, where one group or another are not getting together and praying.
In this last week we have been on our knees for all the requests that have come in from the UKT and we have poured out our prayers for the Salvation Army mission in Papua New Guinea and Kuwait. We have delighted in the fact that we are not just praying for the mission of other people but we are fully engaged in bringing the gospel to our own community to a wide range of age groups.
The quote of the week from one Mum last week has to be, "Jesus died for me, so what! I didn't know the bloke. Why should I care?" We think its great we are even having those sort of conversations.

It was against the backdrop of news of fellows salvationists and our own endeavours to share the gospel in our community that I read this quote from William Booth, speaking about the Christian Mission in 1876
"We are more and more struck as time passes us with the extreme difficulty of the task we have in hand. Thousands upon thousands listen to the Mission every day in the open air. Multitudes of these are impressed even to tears, and yet it is positively terrible to reflect how few after all, of those who have been accustomed to neglect the house of God are really gained to our certain knowledge for Christ every year. While in no wise disposed to discouragement, we feel very deeply the need for increased prayer, power, effort and labouroers, that larger, very much larger results may be realised"

(William Booth "Christian Mission Work, The Month, Christian Mission Magazine Vlll 1876 quoted in A New People of God - A Study in Salvationism by John R Rhemick)

The Christian Mission has not got any easier and in the west, at least we are not even seeing the results that William Booth felt were so meagre. However, like him we are not disposed to discouragement but feel very deeply the need for increased prayer.

How about you?

God bless

Carol