New Summit Presbyterian Church

We are extending to you and your pastor a special invitation to join together to fast one 24 hour period a week through the month of January 2010 as we begin a whole new opportunity and year. The time of fasting would be from Tuesday after supper through Wednesday lunch. Together we would skip breakfast and lunch on Wednesday and devote those two mealtimes, if possible, to fasting-prayer that 2010 would be a year of great advancement in the body of Christ- especially in Lee's Summit.

Everyone who is interested is invited to join for worship and prayer on Wednesday mornings during January. We will all meet at a neutral place- the smaller chapel at John Knox Village. The meeting time for prayer will be Wednesday from 6:30am to 8:00 am. This way those who have to work might be able to stop and participate even for 10 or 15 minutes before they go to work. This would be something very significant that would together glorify God and seek Him first at the beginning of this New Year.

What would we be fasting for together?

1. Our loved ones to be made right with God. Most of us have people in our close family (a brother, a sister, a son, a daughter, an aunt or uncle, a parent or grandparent, a grandson or granddaughter, a wife or husband,) that we deeply and profoundly love. There is no personal request in our hearts more important to us than that they come to know Christ and walk closely with Him. We would be joining together to ask God to draw them to Himself. We want to see them right with God to the point that we are willing to fast each week asking God to graciously answer our prayers.

2. That our individual churches and other churches in Lee's Summit will be greatly strengthened to be able to comprehend what is the width and length and depth and height of the love of Christ.

Ephesians 3-- "that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height- to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God."

3. That the church at large and especially the church of Lee's Summit would move toward the true biblical intent of "oneness" that Jesus prayed in John 17.

"I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me."

4. That we would be willing to be open to the leading of God through His Word, to pursue God in prayer and ask, "Where do we go from here?"

Acts 13:1-3-- Just as the early church sought out God's will in prayer and fasting so will we. They were hungry enough for God's leading that they wanted to say it with the hunger of their bodies and not just the hunger of their hearts. "We want your leading, O God! O Holy Spirit, what is your will for the mission of churches in Lee's Summit who love You and love Your Word?"

The Pastor's Prayer Group of Lee's Summit

Endorsed by the Session (Elders) of New Summit on Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Please let us know of your willingness to enter this covenant by making a note on our insert card in the Sunday bulletin, signing up at our Welcome Table, signing up on our website, or calling the church at 816-246-7474.

You can also sign up online using the form below.