7 Highlights from an Incredible Year - Pete GreigPete Greig - 3 Jan 2014

2013 was a stunning year for the 24-7 Prayer movement.  

There was a lot going on. In case you missed anything, here are seven of my personal 24-7 highlights:

#7    Viral videos

The Prayer Course videos, which Jonny Hughes and I had such fun filming, somehow reached churches in 46 nations in its first six weeks.

#6    10k birthday

In 2013 we celebrated our 10,000th prayer room and at HTB in London, we prayed right the way through the whole year. It still amazes me that in our 14th year of non-stop prayer we’re not only still going but still growing, too. And fast!

#5    Prayer Targets

The mass in Austria was mind-bending, but it was even more humbling to visit our first African Boiler Room in the South African township of Manenberg, where there is 60% unemployment and rival gangs shoot the hell out of each other. On one occasion a bullet came through their prayer room window! These guys are heroes.

#4    ABC Road Trip

The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Journey in Prayer took us all by surprise and mobilised 12000 people to pray in six cathedrals in 6 days. Praying with him in Chichester cathedral was particularly emotional, because it is so close to the humble warehouse where we started our very first prayer room back in 1999. It had taken thirteen years of non-stop prayer in more than 100 nations to walk a mile across town. 

#3    Space Race

It has been incredible to watch Prayer Spaces in Schools exploding into more schools and more nations than ever in 2013. In spite of criticism in the media from militant atheists, PSiS grew by 58% last year, which means that 250,000 school children have now had the opportunity to connect with God in a classroom prayer room.

#2    Mass in Mozart’s cathedral

It was a great privilege to speak to 5000 Catholic young people gathered in Salzburg cathedral and to see so many of them commit to establishing prayer rooms with the blessing of their priests. And when they held a mass for 24-7, I totally freaked out…

#1    Encounter Culture

Dublin… October’s Global Gathering was easily the best we have ever done; with spine-tingling reports from around the world, powerful times of worship and massive amounts of fun!

Thank you for being part of this wild ride.

I’m constantly surprised by the ways God answers our smallest prayers and never stops changing lives. I only get to see part of the global movement - who knows what else might be happening right now in any one of the many prayer rooms around the world? Truly God does ‘immeasurably more than all we can ask or imagine’. So let’s not stop dreaming and asking BIG in 2014.  C’Mon!