Prayer

On-Site Prayer Journey: Checklist

Step by Step:
1. Contacting Agencies/ Field Personnel

• Share your vision and plan with those who may be engaged with this people. See Locating<> Potential Networks or Members.
• Ask for recommendations, cautions and concerns.

• Contact Christian<> Information Network (CIN) on how to pray for unreached peoples and how to select a team
• Pray about the possibility of a prayer journey to this people
• Present the vision to the pastor and missions committee
• Acquire approval from the pastor and elders for involvement in project and selection of prayer coordinator
• Select a prayer coordinator
• Select an administrative support team (for each proposed journey team)
• Use To the Ends of the Earth (Praying Through The Window III) video from CIN or similar materials and present to the congregation
• After the congregation views the video, present the prayer journey vision and challenge the congregation to be involved
• Announce a meeting for those interested in participating (Adopt-A-People Clearinghouse)
• Distribute copies of a prayer calendar to the congregation and recruit home-based intercessors
• Gather prayer resource materials from CIN,<> USCMW (US Center for World Mission),<> AAPC (Adopt-A-People Clearinghouse), and/or Prayer<> Resources on the Web.

• Select the Prayer Journey Team
• Assign a Prayer Journey Coordinator and a Travel Logistics Coordinator
• Journey Team members recruit personal intercessors
• Form a partnership with your denominational missions board or another mission agency for help in planning and finding onsite contacts
• Find an onsite guide (perhaps through a mission agency or through CIN,<> especially if part of Praying Through the Window)
• Begin fund raising for the journey
• Register the journey with CIN
• Gather prayer resources about the people (see Conducting<> Research)
• Begin ongoing team weekly prayer and planning meetings
• Research the culture and customs of the unreached people, including security issues
• Order and read books on prayer, spiritual warfare, praying for the world, etc.
• Contact CIN regarding training, and other materials (See<> Organizing an On-site Prayer Journey)
• Locate and contact other churches that have done prayer journeys to learn from them
• Research and develop a realistic travel budget
• Develop team relationships and team building exercises
• Invite speakers familiar with your adopted people to address your journey team

• Order relevant books and brochures for the church book table
• Have the prayer coordinator organize a concert of prayer and recruit coworkers
• Assign a media coordinator to develop publicity for the Concert of Prayer
• Hold a Concert of Prayer event featuring your adopted people and the prayer journey team
• Have the prayer coordinator organize a retreat for the journey team and home based intercessors together

• Assign an In-City Prayer walk Coordinator to recruit a team to plan a local prayer walk
• Conduct a minimum of one prayer walk in your city (in an unfamiliar ethnic area if possible)
• Hold a team debriefing and strategy session following the prayer walk
• Have the prayer coordinator plan a social event for the complete team and support network
• Hold a social event including the journey team, the home based team and family members, the missions committee and pastors
• Hold a commissioning ceremony (at worship services on the Sunday before the journey team departs)
• The prayer journey team departs
• Provide prayer coverage for the journey team and the adopted people 24 hours per day by the congregation during the time the team is gone
• Remind personal intercessors to continue praying

• When the team returns hold debriefing sessions
• Report to the congregation
• Continue prayer coverage for an additional two weeks upon the team's return home
• Consider a second Concert of Prayer and Praise with the congregation
• Submit a formal report to CIN (either written or taped)
• If a people is formally adopted during or after the prayer / prayer journey phase, register the adoption with AD2000<> & Beyond and Adopt-A-People<> Clearinghouse

ADOPTION REGISTRATION, using the People Commitment Registration Form (Located at the Joshua Project II website.)
Please register using the People Commitment Registration Form (Located at the Joshua Project II website.) your adoption with us so that we can keep track of which peoples have not yet been adopted. We will also use your information to help link churches who have adopted the same people, or others involved within the group.  Be assured that the information you share with us will not be used for solicitation of funds or sold to any fundraising organization.

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