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CE1 - THE HERRNHUT GATHERING Our first gathering of emerging prayer leaders/mobilisers in Herrnhut was powerful and impacted all that attended. It was significant for several reasons: 1. It was a 'kairos' meeting, which means a meeting prepared by God with the right people at the right time. The Lord confirmed this in several ways. On arrival in Herrnhut we discovered that the dates of our arrival and departure coincided with two main dates on the Moravian calendar: on 21 August the first missionaries were sent out and on 27 August the 100 years prayer chain was started. This was more than symbolic, because this event was about the birth of new movements of prayer and missions among the emerging generation in Europe. Friendships have been established between 50 young leaders from 12 nations, and we've already seen many new initiatives and partnerships come out of this. We believe the Lord wants to release a youth prayer movement in every nation of Europe. 2. God released a fresh flow of the prophetic and everyone of us learned how to prophesy over people and nations, and received personal encouragements and confirmations from the Lord.  3.
The spiritual heritage of Herrnhut is a strong link between prayer
and missions, and we believe God used our gathering to plant new
‘apostolic (missionary) seeds’ in our hearts to pray over and act upon when we
return home. Also we prayed into the destiny of Herrnhut, for the
restoration of 24 hour prayer in that place and for a fresh missionary
move that will again impact the whole world.4. We heard great stories of what God is doing among young people, especially related to prayer. Everyone was able to share his/her dreams and receive prayer and encouragement. We learned from national youth prayer movements that are already in place (like The Call in the Netherlands), and from innovative models of youth prayer (like the boiler rooms in the UK). Because implementation is often a weak link in prayer movements, we shared a number of practical suggestions for follow-up and for starting a new movement.  5.
At the end of our time together we performed a 'prophetic act' based on
the second part of Ezechiel 37. We took two pieces of wood. On the first
piece we wrote the names of the 12 nations/tribes that were represented
in Herrnhut. On the second piece we wrote the names of the remaining 38
nations/tribes of Europe. Then we put the pieces of wood together and
prayed and prophesied that our generation in Europe will be unified
under the lordship of Jesus Christ and that He will use us as a mighty
baton in his hand to defeat his enemies. To make this practical we
committed ourselves to continue as a network.6. Although our leadership/preparation team didn’t know each other beforehand, we flowed graciously together, as the Spirit of God led and inspired us. It was inclusive and focused at the same time. This was a good experience for us all. 7. Last but not least: we had a lot of fun. The tense soccer game between Holland-Switzerland-Germany and UK-Italy-Wales ended in 4-5. A number of people received a second 'baptism' in the camping swimming pool. And the mayor of Herrnhut will remember us for a long time, because our passionate prayers literally woke him up. PICTURES Here is a selection of pictures of our time together: 262 - Accomodation in Strahwalde 353 - House of Prayer in Herrnhut 264 - Team preparation in Christian's office 266 - Christian Winter of the House of Prayer 285 - Connect Europe team in pool 287 - Gary's second baptism 289 - Prayer buddies Daniel and Doug 288 - The ladies do it their way 296 - One of Marc's many flower pictures 301 - Dutch tribe 298 - Swiss tribe 299 - Austrian tribe 302 - UK tribe 303 - Finnish tribe 304 - French tribe 305 - Italian tribe 307 - Norwegian tribe 309 - Czech tribe 310 - Polish tribe 321 - Welsh tribe 324 - German tribe 315 - Visit to Brüdergemeinde building 316 - God's acre 292 - Watchtower 320 - Blowing the shofar (this time the mayor didn't show up) 319 - Herrnhut panorama 327 - Kai
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