High Altitude is praying for YOU!

Hi class! Aimee and I (Troy) would like to take a minute to introduce ourselves and then give you some information about the High Altitude Prayer Team and the Monthly Prayer Meeting.

Aimee and I have lived in Houston for the past 5 years. Aimee works as a clinical pharmacist at a local hospital and I am in graduate school studying Microbiology. A few years ago, God directed us to be the class’ prayer team coordinators. We have been thoroughly blessed by High Altitude, so we love being able to serve the class in a small, but powerful way.

Allow me to explain the High Altitude Prayer Team. First of all, everyone in the class is responsible to pray! Jesus tells us “when you pray” (see the 1^st 4 words of Matthew 6:5, 6, & 7) implying that as Christians we will pray and Paul adds that we are to “pray without ceasing” (1 Thess. 5:17). Also, as a member of the class, it is assumed that you have the desire to follow Jesus Christ in a community of believers. Part of being a community is to pray for one another. All you need to do is to read over the weekly prayer e-mail and pray for your classmates according to their praises and requests. The weekly prayer e-mail is made of the list taken on the clipboard during class, but you can also e-mail Aimee and me before noon on Monday. In addition, you can e-mail us during the week, and we will send out the prayer request as you desire (to the whole class, to the prayer team, or just for Aimee and me).

Next, there is a group of class members (the HA Prayer Team) who have volunteered to pray specifically and intentionally for a few members of the class. Each week the prayer list is divided amongst a few prayer team members, and those people pray over the requests and contact the person as the Spirit leads. Each member on the prayer team serves about once per month.

Lastly, there is Aimee and me. We are the coordinators, so that just means that we do all the administrative jobs for the prayer team. We type up the prayer requests and praise reports each week, e-mail the Prayer Team, and prepare the lists for the monthly prayer meetings.

The next Monthly Prayer Meeting is next Sunday (Sept. 13^th). The purpose of the Monthly Prayer Meeting is to seek God collectively for the needs, concerns, and joys of class members and our church. At the end of class, everyone will get into their Shepherd groups. Once you are in your groups, please take a minute to share any recent praises or prayer requests that you have. Aimee and I will pass out lists of requests from other class members. These requests were compiled from the past month’s weekly prayer e-mails. (As a side note, we want to make it clear that the requests are prayed over each week and the monthly prayer meeting is an additional time to pray over the requests.) Next, please pray over the requests. One person from the group can pray for all the requests, or the list can be divided as you want. After you are done praying, please quietly exit the room so that the other groups can finish their prayer time.

Thanks for taking the time to learn about the HA Prayer Team and Monthly Prayer Meeting. Feel free to leave us any comments. As always, you can e-mail our account (see the end of the weekly prayer e-mail) or ha.ministries@gmail.com if you have a prayer or praise request. Also, if you would like to join the prayer team, let us know!

You are in our prayers,

Troy & Aimee