BLOOMFIELD – The Pray Throughout Missouri van makes a stops at the Stoddard County courthouse in Bloomfield. Pathway photos
Pray across Missouri
KENNETT – If you see a silver minivan touring Missouri’s highways eblazoned with a “Pray Across Missouri” logo on the area, you could as well follow it to the local courthouse.
The van is making stops at 45-minute prayer meetings set at the courthouse of every one of Missouri’s 114 county seats in 2017-18. The Pray Across Missouri initiatave is a supportive effort of Missouri Baptists to engage in plea for the transformation of lives and communities with the gospel, according to MBC Executive Director David Yeats. “We’re intentionally starting Pray Across Missouri in a non-election year because is not a political advertising campaign, ” he said. “Rather we would like to pray for all of those who provide Missourians in people rectangle, also to acknowledge that Goodness has located people in authority over us to promote good and inhibit evil. God’s Word calls us to pray to them. ”
The prayer is for a mighty movement of Goodness in the Show Me personally State. ”
The first rally was March 20 at the Dunklin Local Courthouse in Kennett, implemented later that day in Pemiscot, New Madrid and Mississippi counties. Attendence at the 14 events so far has averaged twenty-five, with two sites saving 55 people gathered to pray. Because of water issues at the Reynolds Local courthouse in Centerville, the meeting needed to be moved down the avenue to First Baptist Cathedral.
Kevin Carter, director of missions for Black River Baptist Association, helped organize the first prayer event at the Dunklin Local Courthouse, where 55 people showed up to hope for spiritual transformation in their community, lives and churches. They were fulfilled by six county and city employees who were specifically prayed for.
Through the prayer event, Carter made an association with one county official who is new to the area and told Carter he is capable to find ways the local churches can help the county improve itself.
“I’m anxious to see what kind of response happens statewide, ” Carter said. “Hopefully this would be the start of us actually viewing communities and churches altered. ”
The full routine is not yet completed, though the prayer concert tours and the Pray Throughout Missouri van will continue across southern Missouri this spring.