24 Thanks from 24-7Pete Greig - 13 Dec 2012

From 400 pairs of shoes in Germany to 3 million people praying in Indonesia, I’m thanking God for the most amazing year in the history of the 24-7 movement. And I’m grateful to you, too, for helping to make all of this possible. Here are just 24 reasons to be grateful for 24-7 in 2012…

1/ 157 the number of classrooms turned into prayer rooms this year, enabling 1,000’s of kids to connect with God at school.

2/ 7 the number of years a South African woman had been unable to walk, until she was completely healed after prayer in a 24-7 prayer room.

3/ 3 million the number attending a national prayer meeting in Indonesia, where Pete Greig spoke in the world’s largest Muslim nation on 13th May.

4/ 400 pairs of shoes given to barefoot Romany children in Macedonia by 24-7 activists gathered at our conference in Germany.

5/ 5 new nations which registered with 24-7 Prayer for the first time this year: Congo, Myanmar, Swaziland, Bhutan, Zaire.

6/ 500+ the number of party-goers rescued from drink and drug damage this summer by the 24-7 Ibiza vomit van.

7/ 1,100 non-stop prayer rooms tracked and supported by 24-7 prayer globally this year.

8/ 23 nationalities represented at our European conference in October, where nuns and punks worshipped together.

9/ 500,000 More than half a million pages of our website are opened and read each month.

10/ 1 the top position on iTunes chart for our Lent podcasts, which also won the Jerusalem Award for Best Social Media.

11/ 13 the number of years we’ve now been praying non-stop, night and day.

12/ 614 the name of a 24-7 Boiler Room community praying and reaching out in one of the poorest Vancouver neighborhoods.

13/ 8 the age of Margot who was completely healed of severe eczema in a 24-7 Prayer Room run by Holy Trinity Brompton.

14/ 70,000 24-7 Year of Prayer booklets distributed in Malaysia this year.

15/ 6 Years of Prayer we supported this year in South Africa, Malaysia and Germany for organizations including Alpha.

16/ 15,000 party-goers attended a drunken, 3-day, Icelandic festival where we sent a team of ten to minister.

17/ 1446 the year that Henry VI started building King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, where we held a packed prayer gathering this year.

18/ 32 the number of years Josh had been smoking before his addiction was suddenly, permanently broken in a Korean prayer room.

19/ 20 students whose lives are being changed right now on the new 24-7 Vision Course

20/ 2 the number of prisons that prayed 24-7 this year.

21/ 37,500 wooden prayer stakes planted as blessings all over the world. www.revivalrun.org

22/ 100+ homeless friends fed and cared for each week by the Boiler Room in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

23/ 28 the number of new 24-7 Partners like you who joined the movement this year, helping to make all these amazing answers to prayer possible.

24/  1 Thank you video, especially made for you.