Antioch Prayer Room Opening!

A big night for Antioch Tempe...

last Friday night we opened the prayer room!

It's been one of our immediate goals to see an increase in prayer in our 

church along with a place to facilitate that.

To have more corporate prayer, individual prayer, etc.

Believing God wants us to partner with Him in prayer to see 

the dreams on His heart and ours fulfilled.

I honestly never dreamed it would come together so quickly.

But God started stirring hearts of people in our body and they began

to hunger for it too...so now was the time!

Since the first of the year we have rented another room across the hall

from our current offices, Crystal and the training school have given it  

a complete makeover, and starting with the kickoff last Friday,

prayer nights will be happening every other Friday night,

In addition...we are making the prayer room open and
available to our church almost 24/7.

It's a dream that God has fulfilled much earlier than I ever expected!

Here are some pics from "opening night"!

At one point groups gathered around different windows of the office

to call out for different areas of our city...

we are on the second floor and so we can see a good little ways.

One direction points to campus,

one to a mosque that's next door,

one to Mill Ave. (the main drag of the city...bars, restaurants, etc).

Kristen has done/is doing an amazing job of letting the kids 

play an active part in prayer.

 My kids loved it and were way into it.

One time I caught Ellie putting down her marker and raising her

hands in worship, and then going back to her drawing.

Love what it's cultivating in them.

And here is the room itself.

Not completely done (according to Crystal) but I think it looks amazing!

This is a massive string art that a girl in our church did 

for the space.  It's unbelievable!

The beginning of something great.

Can't wait to see how God uses this little room to change the world.