This weekend, I will be part of a team travelling to Ewa Beach, Hawaii to serve a church plant there. We will be hosting block parties and a VBS on the beach, as well as prayer walking and learning how we can further support the church planters there. Even though living in Hawaii sounds glamorous, it is a spiritually dark place, and there is deep rooted prejudice by some toward the West. Below is a daily prayer guide if you would like to participate in praying for us.
June 21
Team drives to St. Louis.
- Pray for the team to continue to join in a spirit of unity as they set out fly the next day.
- Rom. 12:12 “Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor."
- 1 Peter 3:8 “Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.”
June 22
Team flies to Hawaii
(STL → MIN → LAX → HNL)
- Pray for safety as team flies, trust in the Lord for those who are anxious about flying, and continued team strengthening.
- Isaiah 41:13 "For I, the LORD your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, 'Fear not, I am the one who helps you.'"
- 1 Peter 5:6-7 “Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.”
- Col. 1:11-12 “May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.”
June 23
Team worships at Mililani Baptist Church,
dinner with the Davis’s and last minute prep.
- Pray for understanding and discernment of the culture and spiritual climate. Pray for a deepened burden for the lost there and that God open doors to share the Gospel.
- Phil. 1:9-11 “And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.”
- Col. 4:2-4 “Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison—that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak.”
June 24-27
Son and Surf Bible Club
Tuesday Night Outreach
- Team will share Bible stories of Creation, Jesus’ birth, death & resurrection and the Gospel. They will lead kids in a craft and games each day.
- Pray for God to move in the hearts of those who attend, that God would reveal His awesome works, goodness and glory.
- Psalm 19:1 “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.”
- Psalm 86:8-10 “There is none like you among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like yours. All the nations you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord, and shall glorify your name. For you are great and do wondrous things; you alone are God.”
- Pray for those attending to see and understand their sin and need of Christ as Savior.
- Romans 3:23-24 “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, ”
- Pray that God would speak through the team each day and they would display the love of Christ as they proclaim the Gospel.
- Romans 10:15 “And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”
- 1 John 4:9-11 “In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”
- Pray, if it’s God’s will, to add to the number of Aloha Community Church through the outreach.
- Acts 2:37, 41 “Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart...So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.”
June 28-29
Debrief with team and off-time
- Pray for the team to draw near to the Lord, glorify God with their time and for continued strengthening of relationships.
- Psalm 73:28 “But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord God my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.”
- 1 Cor. 10:31 “So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”
- Romans 13:14 “But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.”
- Prov. 17:17 “A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”
June 30-July 1
Team worships at monthly service for Aloha Community Church.
Team flies back to St. Louis and drives to Springfield on the 1st.
Team flies back to St. Louis and drives to Springfield on the 1st.
(HNL → SLC → STL)
- Pray for ACC’s monthly services and home Bible studies. Pray for the Davis’s as they lead the church plant.
- Col. 1:11-12 “May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.”
- Pray for safety as team flies, trust in the Lord for those who are anxious about flying, and continued team strengthening.
- Isaiah 41:13 "For I, the LORD your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, 'Fear not, I am the one who helps you.'"
- 1 Peter 5:6-7 “Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.”
