ENGAGE

We’re back to normal this week at 26a Railway Road, Coleraine.

As you may know our current ‘model’ is a couple of hours of devotional worship followed by 2 hours of more structured intercessory worship (a fusion of prayer and worship).

I read the following excerpt and thought it summed up well the reason for spending time during the devotional sessions.

Calvin Institute of Christian Worship - Ten Core Convictions

Worship is immeasurably enriched by:

1. a vivid awareness of the beauty, majesty, mystery, and holiness of the triune God

Worship cultivates our knowledge and imagination about who God is and what God has done. Worship gives us a profound awareness of the glory, beauty, and holiness of God…

Come and enjoy!

The sessions look like this on Friday

8-10 Devotional Worship

10-12 - Worship & Intercession

Hope to see you there!

Cheers - Andy

Last week we had the Nels (Gerrit and Marti - I hope I’ve spelled that ok!) join us from Israel.

Below is a very brief clip from the question and answer section at the end of Gerrit’s talk - it was a significant time togther.

Hi Folks,

Things at Engage are slightly different this week. We’ll be running from 8-10pm kicking off with some worship followed by guest speakers Martie and Gerrit Nel.

If you’ve been to our sessions lately you’ll know that each week we focus at least some of our attention on following the biblical mandate of praying for Israel.

Now, I must confess that, personally, I’m not that clued up on of many of the issues around this subject yet I understand that there’s something important to be explored here.

Martie and Gerrit are originally from South Africa but now live and work in Israel and we’ve asked that they educate us on the significance of including Israel and Jerusalem in our intercessions.

It should be an enlightening time together.

www.Engage24.net
26a Railway Road
Coleraine

8pm

Hope to see you there.

Cheers - Andy

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I just read this great definition of what Intercessory Worship (Engage) is about from Integrity Music.

Integrity Music

Intercessory worship? What in the world is that? It’s a brand-new, cutting-edge concept that first hit the music industry, oh, about 3,000 years ago - right around the time of King David. Worshiper and prayer warrior, David came up with the radical notion of combining prayer and worship. 1 Chronicles chapters 15 and 16 describe how he built a special tabernacle to house the Ark of the Covenant, positioning both musicians and intercessors around it to combine forces and minister to the Lord.

So when we meet again this Friday (and every other Friday for that matter) we’re just carrying on from a legacy that began a long time ago.

I met Don Potter last year and he mentioned something that I hadn’t seen before about David’s model of intercessory worship.

He pointed out that the ‘Tabernacle of David’, where all the intercessory worship went on, continued night and day for 33 years - the exact period of time that God incarnate in Jesus walked on the earth. The intercessory worship then shaped the history of Israel and ultimately the whole world.

At Engage we know that the prayers of the people are shaping the history of our community and greater things are to come.

It has been encouraging to see the number of young folks, particularly in last week’s session, catching this heart in this generation.

We’re adding another dimension to what we do here in Coleraine. We are going to be advertising for prayer requests and doing a specific community prayer watch each month. The ad in the personal column of the local paper will look something like this:

Occasionally we get asked about how Engage works financially - well, here’s the low down on that.

As you probably know Engage is run by a team of volunteers. It has been a lean, low cost operation due to the generousity of folks donating time, PA gear and other needs that arise from time to time.

In 2008 we have made the decision to change to a neutral, non-church based venue. This has proved to be a good move for us.

However, it does mean that we incur the cost of rent, insurance and advertising (we’re launching a community prayer-line) etc.

If you’d like to invest in the Engage vision to have a regular and growing intercessory worship presence in our community (and beyond) then we’d like to help you do that!

You can donate financially in the following ways:

1. Standing Order. Simply download a monthly standing order form here (Engage Standing Order Form). Print, complete it for an amount of your choice and return to the address on the form

2. Cheque. Send a cheque for any amount, payable to ‘Engage’, to S. McGookin, 8 Kings Road, Coleraine, BT51 3LN

3. Credit Card/PayPal. Simply click on the donate button below - It’s secure (your details are not transmitted to us) and you don’t even need to have a PayPal account.

Thanks for your support - a little goes a long way.

Folks, 3 Things..

1. We’re so thankful to God for a smooth transition into the new room. it’s a great size and out first Engage session last Friday was really good. We’re excited about where the future might take us, but would value everyone’s prayers as look at how Engage will develop.

In our first session of the year it seems that the themes that God was ‘breathing on’ were praying for the young and often fatherless generation that is growing up in our communities. There was a real sense of God’s compassion and His hope for the youth of this generation. And also there was an urgency in the room when we began praying specifically for folks who are sick. Perhaps these are themes that will emerge more and more.
This week’s schedule looks like this

Fri 18th Jan ‘08

8-10 Devotional Worship
10-12 - Worship & Intercession

Hope to see you there!

2. WE NEED YOU.. Whether you’re a singer, musician or are committed to praying for our community - we’re looking for more people to help cover the sessions. If you would like to get involved - please get in touch.

3. Check out the new FACEBOOK page -
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7187618489.

Please go on and join the group, and the you’ll be able to comment there and also see who else is connected to Engage. (You’ll need to open a Facebook account first though).

Hi folks,

I just wanted to drop you a line to say thanks for your support over the past year in relation to Engage. It’s not easy coming out on a Friday night - there’s such a temptation to stay home and eat take out food!! But thank you for sticking with us and helping to establish a consistent prayer and worship watch in COLERAINE. I truly believe this is on God’s heart for our community, and we’re looking forward to what God will do in 2008.

For 2008 we have a new venue - 26A Railway Road, Coleraine (opposite the Leisure Centre - see below).

We are incredibly grateful to St. Patrick’s Church of Ireland for the use of their property over the last number of years but for some time we have wanted to meet in a neutral venue.

So we’re excited to have use of 26A Railway Road and we hope to see several new watches established alongside the regular Friday night gathering.

2008 kicks off again on Friday January 11th.

Until then, on behalf of the team, I pray you’ll have a great Christmas and very peaceful new Year.

God bless

Ian

Engage has been ‘on the go’ for 7 years this year and in keeping with the whole ‘7′ being the number of completion thingy that precedes a new beginning there are a few really interesting developments in the pipeline.

Can’t say much about it at the minute as some stuff has to be confirmed but we sense that God has been speaking that a time of pregnancy is about to go to the birthing stage.

Sorry to leave you hanging with just a teaser but if you’re not on the newsletter list then you need to sign up mighty quick! (by-the-way it’s free and we take your privacy seriously) we’ll keep you posted as things unfold.

In the meantime here’s the agenda for the next few weeks.

Howdy folks

We have the recordings from the Peter Stott, Ray Hughes and Mike McClung available for listening on-line or you can download them to your own computer, iPod or MP3 player.

Simply go to http://engage.mypodcast.com/ and either hit the play button or ‘right click’ on the recording link and choose ’save as’ to dowload them.

Alternatively if you have iTunes and want to subscribe to the free podcast then use the Subscribe feature under ITunes and use the following address http://engage.mypodcast.com/rss.xml. This way anytime we put additional recordings it will automatically update your iTunes Songlist.

In the meantime spread the word that Engage resumes normal service Tomorrow night (Fri 19th Oct) 8pm to Midnight.

Hope to see you there.

Andy

We are delighted to have Ray Hughes with us this weekend.

He’ll be doing a worship set on Saturday 6th October at 8pm in St. Patrick’s church.

If you’re aware of what has been happening with Engage during this season you’ll know that we believe that this event is ‘Part 2′ of what’s unfolding in terms of vision for this area, Ireland and beyond. I know that all sounds a bit grand but Peter Stott communicated with us in his visit last month that something was about to be birthed here (see video clip below) and it’s no coincidence that we have three significant voices (Peter Stott, Ray Hughes and Mike McClung) visiting all within the space of a few weeks - all completely uncoordinated by the team here.

Ray leads Selah Ministries (see http://www.selahministries.com), and is involved a lot with Prophetic intercession and worship. They will be appearing in St Patrick’s Church. Here’s part of his bio:
“Ray Hughes travels in the U.S. and internationally as a speaker, worship leader, storyteller, singer/songwriter and prophetic voice to regions and nations. His worship team, the Selah Project Band, travels with him on occasion to local churches, regional worship and prophetic conferences, festivals, universities and ministry schools. Ray is passionate about training and releasing musicians and creative people into their destinies and the power of their purpose in the world and the church. He is a prophetic historian continuously re-digging the old wells of biblical, world and recent history for the purpose of releasing the fresh word of God for the kingdom today. “

See you Saturday!