For the past 3 1/2 years, a team of Christian filmmakers in Hollywood has been working diligently on developing plans for a feature film that has the potential to be the most spiritually significant movie ever made. The film is called The Messiah, and it picks up where The Passion left off. It naturally and powerfully communicates the Gospel message of Jesus Christ - from the Cross, through the Resurrection, to Pentecost (planned release Christmas 2013 or Easter 2014).
Budgeted at $100 million USD, with state-of-the-art special effects, including being shot in 3D, The Messiah will be an epic film that will wow audiences (by comparison The Passion’s budget was $30 million USD). And for the first time in history, the born-again experience, what it means to have a personal relationship with God, will be shown on screen. This means the Gospel message will be communicated in a way that everyone can understand regardless of education or language, and because it will be a mainstream blockbuster movie, it truly will reach everywhere in the world.
To learn more, please see The Messiah
(http://www.injesusnameproductions.org/pages/page.asp?page_id=100530).
Also, we encourage you to read the quotes
(http://www.injesusnameproductions.org/pages/page.asp?page_id=100539)
from Christian leaders and prominent Hollywood filmmakers who have read the script and have been involved with guiding the project.
The Messiah is in the final stages of funding. A number of investors are currently reviewing our plans and making their final decision on whether to fund the movie.
We are calling on Christians throughout the world to pray for The Messiah and this unprecedented opportunity to leverage a state-of-the-art feature film to take the Gospel to the ends of the Earth.
Please pray that:
1. God would move the hearts of the potential investors to fund The Messiah.
2. God would lead the team involved to make the highest quality, God-honoring, God-glorifying, feature film ever made.
3. God would leverage The Messiah once it is released to take the Gospel message to the ends of the Earth and 100’s of millions of people would be saved, and would trigger a worldwide Revival.
4. God would raise up more than a million people to pray regularly for The Messiah.
And the gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. (Matthew 24:14)
For more information please see http://www.prayforhope.com/
Lisa Crump, Director Prayer Mobilization National Day of Prayer Task Force
Office: (719) 559-9573
Fax: (719) 559-9561
www.NationalDayofPrayer.org
Fighting between the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and the Burma Army broke out on 9 June 2011, ending a 17-year cease-fire agreement between the two groups. As many as 20,000 people have been displaced by the fighting in Kachin State, according to local networks helping IDPs in Laiza. KIA sources have said that the number of standing Burma Army battalions before the conflict began was 93. Currently there are 113 battalions in Kachin State with more troops on the way, according to KIA sources. Divisions 33, 88, and 99 are currently operating in Kachin State.
On 16 October 2011, approximately 200 Burma Army soldiers from Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) 438 and Infantry Battalion (IB) 121 attacked Nam San Yang Village in Wai Maw District, Kachin State. The soldiers burned over 30 houses and stayed for 3 days in the village occupying the village temple. All the villagers from Nam San Yang Village have fled their homes and are staying with relatives or in IDP camps in Laiza. Other villagers are living in huts in their fields as it is now harvest time and they do not want to lose this year's crops. The Burma Army is still patrolling from their nearby camp down into the village making it difficult for the villagers to reclaim their left belongings and farm their fields.
For more information regarding this attack:
Democratic Voice of Burma, http://www.dvb.no/news/troops-raze-kachin-villages-locals-flee/18666
Christian Solidarity Worldwide, http://dynamic.csw.org.uk/article.asp?t=press&id=1260
Free Burma Rangers’ (FBR) mission is to provide hope, help and love to internally displaced people inside Burma, regardless of ethnicity or religion. Using a network of indigenous filed teams, FBR reports on human rights abuses, casualties and the humanitarian needs of people who are under the oppression of the Burma Army. FBR provides medical, spiritual and educational resources for IDP communities as they struggle to survive Burmese military attacks.
For more information, please visit www.freeburmarangers.org
The 2011 rainy season is the worst any living person in the northern Kayes region of Mali can remember: only two days of rain. Typically, a family can harvest enough to see them through until the following harvest season, but not much beyond. This year, with no harvest, families are already coming to the bottom of their grain stocks. Migrant workers can send money for their families to buy food, but about one-third of the families in Xusaane village do not have anyone to help them. The local believers and the village association have put together a committee to identify these most needy families and calculate what each will need until the harvest of 2012-13. They are formulating a plan for the bulk purchase, transportation and distribution of grain. Pray that they will be able to raise sufficient money to provide for each family.
Call to Prayer for the World Prayer Assembly (WPA), May 14-18, 2012 (www.wpa2012.org)
Please keep praying for the WPA! Your prayer support will be all-important to the planning of this event which is intended to be a “new paradigm” for an international congress—carried out Acts 13-style—incorporating listening to God, united prayer, and strategic implementation of world-impacting action that proceeds out of that encounter with the Lord and one another.
1. Please pray that those from every nation God is calling to take part in Jakarta will be able to be with us and for that the resources for them and the Assembly itself will flow in abundance.
2. Pray for the solution of logistical problems and some difficulty with the registration process to be resolved quickly and effectively.
3. For the facilitators, track leaders, presenters and worship teams to be led of the Lord, prepared and anointed to serve.
4. For His unity among all who are working to arrange the WPA that our hearts will be one with Him and one another.
5. For effective management of the planning process and for an operations chief to be identified and put in place for our Jakarta office ASAP.
500 Indonesian children carried out a concert of prayer for the WPA with about 20 churches coming together from North Jakarta. The children also sowed money for the WPA (Rp. 1.500.000 which is about $200). Amazing...the new wave is coming! We are really excited…God is moving in children hearts!
For more information about children’s participation in the World Prayer Assembly, write to Tety Irwan, Children’s Track Coordinator for the WPA at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Egypt, a neighbor of Sudan, has been rocked by the recent bombing attack by Muslim radicals on one of its churches in Alexandria. A local Christian leader writes about the traumatic effect of this attack:
“The trauma is bottomless. Especially as a Westerner one cannot go near the quarter of town where the attack happened. Authorities are strongly present there. Even for people affected and /or living there going out was prohibited yesterday. The frustration and the desire to defend or protect oneself is big especially with the young people. It's not the first time, after all, that something like that is happening. And there is always an official version of things. Emotions are indescribable. Many Muslims have also expressed their anger about this being done to the Christians. It appears the number of people now in hospitals is much bigger than first thought.”
Please pray for:
1. soothing of physical pain (many lost limbs, in the bomb were nails).
2. hospitals to be able to cope, blood donations to reach the ones in need.
3. the other Christians to be able to bring true comfort and meaningful help - perhaps as of Wednesday. Pray that the church is able to organize itself for that.
4. the young Christians who were taken away to prison during the riot. Under military law here nobody knows where they are and if and when they will be released again.
5. ability for the affected to keep fear, frustration and hate in check during the shock.
6. outward security; Westerners are not welcomed by the ones in charge, the country fears loss of face.
7. long-term strategy when the dust has settled.
A personal note follows from a dear Christian brother in Egypt regarding this tragedy:
Hope
There is always Hope with Jesus. I believe that even in the dark hour, there is that Light that we can always rely on. I'm sure that the enemy wants to fill our hearts with despair so we can't look with hope for the days ahead.
In my country as in many other places around the world, there are sad, difficult things happening every single day. Lately, we had a horrible terroristic attack on Christians where many died & were injured. There is fear spreading even in the midst of God's people.
I was involved in some prayer gatherings lately where I felt led by the Spirit to inspire Hope in the body of Christ that even in hard times, we're going to see God's Mighty Hand like never before in our lives. We're going to see His signs & wonders. I'm filled with faith that in the midst of hard times, we'll see Him mightily. We'll experience what we have never experienced before. Lions will bow down before His children.
Challenges will be everywhere & giants will be all around. Goliath will keep threatening. Jezebel will keep frightening. Yet, now is the time for the David(s) to come out and defeat the giants. Now is the time for the Elijah(s) to come forth in the name of Jesus and declare victory over Jezebel.
We'll definitely see His Glory like never before. There is Hope. "There is Hope for a tree; if it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail. Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump die in the soil, YET at the scent of Water it will bud and put forth shoots like a plant." (Job 14: 7-9)
Operation Capitals of Europe and Gatekeepers of Europe in Athens, Greece, will hold a joint event, 20-26 March 2012.
George & Evi Markakis
Shalom Center Athens
Shalom Apostolic Network international
Shalom Center House of Prayer for all Nations
3rd flr, 8, Akominatou str. Omonia Athens, Greece