9:30 – 4:00

registration opens at 9:00 AM

$30. includes Lunch

at Greenbank Community Church

51 Greenbank Rd. Nepean  Map

Tom’s back! He’ll be spending the day with us to inspire, encourage and enlarge our vision for a transformed city. Mission Ottawa has had the privilege of walking with Tom White over many years as he has led our annual Pastors’ Retreats and spoken at city-wide People’s Prayer Summits. He comes to us as a friend with a unique understanding of Ottawa’s position as a capital city region.

Tom White is in growing demand as one of the top global strategests for city reaching. He is an active member of the Mission America Coalition, and in March, 1999 was appointed to serve on America’s National Prayer Committee. Tom has facilitated hundreds of Leaders Prayer Summits in the U.S., Canada, Japan, Russia, Australia and Israel, Europe, Sri Lanka, and India. He has recently published City-Wide Prayer Movements: One Church, Many Congregations, a practioners guide to birthing and building a city or regional movement of prayer. He has also published articles in Discipleship Journal and PRAY! Magazine. More on Tom White

RSVP now to reserve your place. Email richardlong@rogers.com or call 613-824-4905 for more details.  

This is an open invitation to Pastors and Spouses, Christian Business and Prayer Leaders!

Hope to see you there.

   The “Mission O” team

Check out our February Announcements here.

Dear Mission O co-workers,

   As we come to the close of another year and celebrate the first coming of the Prince of Peace and look forward to His world transforming return, I would like to share with you some of the things that Mission O has been working on. Since Mission O functions like a voluntary cooperative that seeks to help pastors, Christian leaders and churches work together to transform our city, we wanted to share with you the progress that we see we have been able to make together.

Please follow this link to read the rest of this Letter from Ken Roth

We gathered 20 prayer leaders at the beginning of 2011 to share their dreams about how we could see Ottawa saturated with prayer.  Here’s a list of 75 ideas that we came up with …

Dreams we have for a prayer-saturated city

 A Prayer Leadership Team that would catalyze and support many other specific teams that would take on some of these projects.

An Ottawa House of Prayer (for the city)

A Missions Prayer Base

Prayer Walking of every street in Ottawa

Prayer Adoption of every street in Ottawa

Measurable results in areas like crime reduction.

A City Hall Prayer Team

Connectedness through a well-developed Communications System which would include every congregation in the City.

A Research group

A Creative Arts Community that prays

Situational Prayer using “Art Stations”

Prayer Booths at every celebratory event throughout the year.  Eg. Canada Day, Jazz Fest, Winterlude

Prayer Help phone line

Website offering prayer

Prophetic “Listening and Seeing” team

SWAT teams (Strategic Warfare for special sites)

Prayer Assemblies

-Days of Prayer

- Week of Prayer

Prayer Walls,

24-7 weeks or weekends.

The Burn in Ottawa

Global Day of Prayer with huge buy-in from the Church

- Large Venue gatherings (like City-Wide)

- Regional Gatherings

-“Ushering In the Presence of the Lord” kind of prayer resulting in an anointing for HEALING throughout the city

Healing Rooms around the city

Greater and Greater Annual Civic Prayer Breakfasts

Prayer conferences with major speakers for training, and inspiring.

Prayer trainers sent out to other cities and nations.

“Bridal Intercession” that incorporates Worship. (taught to every prayer congregation through training teams)

Companies and Businesses with Intercessors

Special Ops (teams that do deep research on major issues and can lead prayer into these issues.)

Prayer for every school, college and university

Prayer for Social Agencies

Prayer for Families in Crisis

Special “clean up” teams for crime sites.

Prayer for every inner-city ministry

Prayer for every EMS, Police officer, Firefighter

Prayer team for every Police station.

RCMP chaplains

Prayer for our Prisons (awesome stuff is already happening)

Special prayer for our juvenile incarceration facility

City to City prayer missions

An understanding and embracing of Ottawa’s “Gateway” calling

Ottawa would be known as a “City of Prayer”.

Short term prayer missions to other nations

Fully supported long-term prayer missionaries in the nations.

A focus on raising up prayer in our Youth

Mobilization of our children to prayer

Evangelism and Prayer Synergy

Evangelistic Praying door-to-door

Neighbourhood “Lighthouses of Prayer”

More Incarnational Ministry like “Move-In”

Training Teams that move around the congregations.

Prayer Curriculum for every class and cell

A Prayer Point person in every congregation to facilitate communication and mobilization

A city that prays for the world

Pastor to pastor prayer everywhere

Weekly Pastors’ prayer meetings in every sector of the city

Pastors Prayer Days, and Retreats

Prayer for every pastor

A prayer team backing every church planter

Twinning of established congregations to pray for new church plants

Breakthrough anointing on our prayers for the tough situations

Breakthrough prayer for the Muslim community

Special Prayer for First Nations

Special Prayer for Francophones

Special Prayer for Chinese,

Special Prayer for the Lebanese and other Arabic communities

Prayer that releases and procures property for church planting and other kingdom purposes

Special Prayer effort targeting New Immigrant neighbourhoods

Prayer Pilgrimages

Prayer Retreats in the Contemplative tradition

Resources available on website

An online centre for connection and identity and promotion of events and initiatives.

A Newsletter that tells the stories and challenges congregations

Salaried staff who can support all these initiatives.

And we have just started dreaming God’s dreams for our city!

The team: Kerry Kronberg, Cornelius Babalola, Linda Reed, Darren Milley, Dave Harder, Daniel Avitan, Mike Miedema, Barry Boucher, Richard Long, Lynn Fraser, Wayne Webster, Ken Roth. Please click here for their contact information.

The first meeting was held this past week. They will also be meeting with Tom White, who is a city-reaching consultant on Oct. 20th. We are taking a fresh look at where we believe the Lord is leading us in this city. We will be taking a serious look at the ideas that were generated at the two Open Forums held in the spring and are looking for people who are willing to help put legs under them. We very much value your continued prayers for we know that our battle is not against flesh and blood. If you have input to give us, know of others who should be added to our mailing list, or would like to get involved in the hands-on work, please let one of us know. For the present, Ken Roth will continue as interim chair.

At the first meeting we identified nine big ideas that surfaced in response to the question: How can a city-wide effort in Ottawa do a better job of reaching the city? In the second one we drilled down into those ideas by breaking up into groups that wanted to focus on any one of those particular ideas. There were some very exciting plans of action that were suggested. It was interesting to note that the first Open Forum focused more on authentic relationships and transformational prayer, and the second one on intentional mission.

The other purpose of the Open Forums was to help us identify who are the people that God is raising up with a heart for leading the city church movement forward. Not only with authentic relationships and transformational prayer, but also towards more intentional mission. Several names were submitted and several others volunteered to help in various ways. The present Servant Leadership Team is now drafting up a proposed new leadership team that will have at least two of the former members continuing on, along with ten other names. We are seeking to develop a team that will have a wide cross-section of people representing various regions, cultures, genders, ages, ministries and abilities. We will be approaching them to talk about serving on such a team. Then, we will send out the list in August for feedback from anyone wishing to make comments in regards to that list. On Thursday, September 9th, at 7:00 pm, in the Bromley Baptist gym, we will hold a general meeting of interested people to affirm this new leadership team and pray God’s anointing upon them as they seek the Lord’s direction for implementing some of the ideas we discussed.

Please pray to the Lord of the Harvest that He will choose and send out those who He has given the heart, ability, character and time to devote to helping the church in the National Capital Region advance God’s kingdom-come-purposes for our city.

Ken Roth
Mission O Servant Leadership Chair

God is challenging us to build our ministries within a culture of honour as Jesus did with His disciples. He loved them just the way they were, but loved them enough not to leave them the way they were. Jesus often asked questions of His disciples and He does the same with us today.

Here are the five most important questions to ask or be asked regarding what we do as ministers. We must clearly understand the question being asked of us and be frank with our answer.

EXERCISE

Think of a fellow minister, sitting at your kitchen table, having a coffee and asking the following questions of you. How would you answer?

1. What is YOUR mission?

2. Who are YOU interested in reaching?

3. What do the people YOU are trying to reach want?

4. What are YOUR results to date?

5. What is YOUR plan?