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- September 2013 IN THIS ISSUE.. IHOP Internship Comes to an End! (whats next?) Report from Ministry Trip to Central Illinois Family News Standing for Life and the Ending of Abortion Final Words
Whats Next?
Please pray with us as we are preparing to enter full-time staff on the Missions Base. There are many opportunities, and we have many desires on our hearts. For the next 2 weeks we will be attending more training, as we have enrolled in the Forerunner Partnership Development course. We will be learning about developing our core team of financial partners who will stand with us and support us as missionaries. THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU WHO ARE ALREADY PARTNERS WITH US! For those of you who are not yet on our team of partners, you can expect a letter, postcard, and phone call from us soon inviting you to join us. Please pray about it!
Springfield, IL HOP came over on Sat. night & led worship awesome!
The prayer room was nearly full at every service lifting up Jesus!
FAMILY NEWS!
Joy is a full-time singer in the Global Prayer Room! Ever since our arrival at IHOPKC last November, Joy has been subbing as a singer on several teams in the prayer room. She was approached by Clay Edwards (Mistys brother) recently about becoming a full-time singer on his team. After praying about it, she did an audition and was accepted! It is so awesome to see her up there now every weekend doing what the Lord has gifted her to do. And get this yesterday morning we were both up early and I said to her, Joy, you know some time when Clay or Sarah (his wife) are not able to lead, they may ask you to lead a set. She said, Yeah, but Im not really comfortable as much leading teams I would be better at leading a devotional set. It was later that day during Misty Edwards devotional set (2-4 pm) Melissa and I were in the prayer room and Clays team was getting ready to go on at 4 pm after Misty. I left the room for a few minutes and when I came back at 3:30, guess who was at the keyboard leading the devotional instead of Misty? Thats right, it was Joy! Misty had sent the sound tech back to the briefing room to see if someone would be willing to come and finish the last 30 minutes of her devotional set. Amazing that Joy and I had just talked about this that morning wow!
Joy singing on Team Edwards. Tune in at www.ihopkc.org/prayerroom/ Fri 10-noon & 4-6 pm, Sat 12-2 pm &4-6 pm, & Sun 2-4 pm to hear Joys team and worship & pray with them!
Jessianna & Jonathan join Student Worship & Prayer Teams. We are excited that Jessianna and Jonathan both auditioned and were accepted onto student worship teams again this fall! The youth keep a prayer room of their own going in the evenings, Monday Friday, where they form worship & prayer teams which rotate doing 2-hour sets. Jessianna is team worship leader again, and she is doing such an awesome job. She also continues to serve as one of the main Worship Leaders at the youth meetings at FCF. Jonathan qualified this time to serve on his team as keyboard player! He has really been progressing on keys and is doing a great job. He is also on the sub list as both a singer and drummer. Were proud of them both for developing the skill and the diligence to serve on their teams. Melissa has joined volunteer staff at Returning Glory Ranch. Melissa received training & is now volunteer staff at Returning Glory Horse Ranch on Tuesday nights! She works one-on-one with girls from a local Teen Challenge program, using horsemanship to teach Scriptural life principles to the girls. Visits from friends! It was so wonderful to have visits from Peggy Luther & Alice Olsen on August 23, and from Jessica Calvin on September 15. Peggy & Alice were on their way to a womens conference in Des Moines, and stopped to see us and spend some time in the prayer room. So great to see these two prayer warriors and women of God (of course Melissa & I had them pray over us before they left!). And what a joy to see Jessica Calvin and get a report from her 11-month missions trip! God has done so much in her life, and you can see it on her face she just looks different! We kept her up late into the night telling us stories of what God is doing among the many nations she visited. The Lord was with her and kept her safe, and used her in mighty ways healing, teaching, preaching, etc. If you have an opportunity, have her over and listen to her stories, you will be so encouraged. One highlight I remember her saying is, Everywhere, literally everywhere I went, the Christians there are saying, Hes coming soon! Jesus is coming soon! The Bride is being prepared!
Many came to pray during the kickoff rally of 40 Days for Life in Overland Park.
Another location where abortions are performed daily by a father & daughter physician team.
Final Words.
On September 19th, IHOPKC celebrated our 14th year of 24/7 prayer & worship in Kansas City. Thank you Jesus! Since 1999, we have spent over 150,000 hours in corporate prayer. IHOPU has had over 600 graduates now who are taking night & day prayer to the nations. (This is the first year IHOPU is teaching curriculum not only in English, but also in Korean & Chinese!) Weve had over 5,000 interns complete internships at the Missions Base, over 15,000 children who ve participated in our Childrens Equipping Center, and over 20,000 teens participate in our camps & youth initiatives. God has blessed this sanctuary of worship & prayer, and so many are being sent forth from here to bless the nations of the earth! We are so thankful the Lord has brought us here for such a time as this, and we re excited to become more involved in the days ahead. Thank you so much for your prayers and financial gifts they mean so much! Please continue to send us your prayer requests, and come visit us and see what God is doing here in Kansas City. Better yet become partners with us!!! We love you all, and were praying for you! Because He is worthy of it all, Our contact information: The Marcums P.O. Box 1099 Grandview, MO 64030 Phone & text: 816-287-3525 (Jim) 816-287-2228 (Melissa) Email & paypal: intercessorymissions@gmail.com
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