You are welcome to participate in one or all the intensives individually, or participate in the whole 10 week Transit Fuel (that includes all three plus being part of the Source BR’s summer community). See below for more details on each of these.

Transit Fuel & Intensives

To provide entry points to build relationship with 24/7-prayer, experience Boiler Room communities, see and participate urban outreach, learn the foundations for effectiveness and longevity, and hear the many layers of our story.

Thank you for your interest in the 24/7 Transit Fuel and intensives. We’re excited to offer three different 4-8 day intensive gatherings/trainings this summer along with the 10 week Transit Fuel (internship) that will include all of them. We hope to have several individuals and leaders from several different Boiler Rooms be part of hosting and teaching at all three intensives. Weather you can join us for just one of the intensives or the full 10 weeks, it is a great opportunity to experience, build relationships, get to know individuals in the 24/7 national community, and learn foundational values.

Each of the intensives will have different focuses. Individuals are welcome to come for 1, 2 or all 3 of them. Along with all three intensives, the 10 week Transit Fuel will give a more in depth experience, relationship building, and teaching of values and being part of a Boiler Room Community. It will begin with the 24/7 National Gathering near KC, and then the rest of the Transit Fuel (along with the UMT and the Drum & Easel Art Intensive) will be hosting at the Source Boiler Room in Minneapolis.

Transit Fuel:
10 week internship Minneapolis 5/21-7/28
3 intensives (24/7 National Gathering, UMT, Drum&Easel Art Intensive)
– 2 tracts: 1) Urban Outreach / Prayer - 2) the Arts

TF will be an intense 10 weeks in which you will get to know and meet individuals from 24/7 around the country and around the world. Each of the three intensives consist of a heighten schedule with pilgrims coming to join from around the country. Between the intensive weeks, you will be joining the Source Boiler Room Community rhythm, living in a community house near the Fallout, participating in a daily rhythm of prayer and outreach, and sit in on weekly gathering times that will feature more in depth teaching from a variety of leaders and urban neighbors that have given their lives to reach out and live amongst urban diversity.

TF participants will also be given the option of choosing a focus of interest. The 2 focus offered will be 1) Urban Outreach / Prayer & 2) Arts. The summer will be guided by personal and small group mentorship, experience along side staff/community members, and the individual's spiritual growth. Being a part of a Boiler Room, getting to know the individuals and families, outreach team, coffeeshop and street outreach, hosting outreach events, worship and prayer, teaching & training, building projects, ministry journals, and discipleship groups are all a part of TF. TF participants will also help host the Fallout Art fest at the end of the summer and there may be an option to attend the Cornerstone Music Festival in July.

24/7 Transit Intensives

24/7 National Gathering:
Youth Front Campground in Kansas, near Kansas City Area, 5/22-25
www.24-7prayer.us "Gather" link
Since it’s birth in 1999, 24/7 Prayer has seen steady growth and the amount of inquiries and interest continues to pour in. Weeks of 24 hours prayer hosted by Churches, small groups of friends, urban communities, college students, Campus America, and Boiler Rooms along with Pete Grieg’s Red Moon Rising (Chronicling the beginning years of the movement), and now PunkMonk hot off the presses has generated quite a stir.

We are gathering at a camp near Kansas City from May 22nd-25th, to put fuel on the fire of prayer, to be the community of faith and to take our campuses for the glory of Jesus. We recognize that there are many questions and a lot of interest in 24-7 Prayer as well as 24-7 Communities (Boiler Rooms) and Campus America. We are hosting one intense gathering with three separate tracks that follow the three veins of 24-7 Prayer here in the U.S. Please bring your friends and family and let's see what the Lord will do.

UMT (Urban Ministry Training):
Source Boiler Room, Minneapolis 5/31-6/8
This is an attempt to try to give away all we can to the participants that come to attend. UMT will feature 24/7-prayer and Boiler Room leaders from across the nation. Boiler Rooms have the same DNA, but have unique expressions as each community, neighborhood, and city they are located in is unique. This is a great opportunity to connect and learn from many different leaders while experiencing a Boiler Room for a week. There will be a wide spectrum of experience from different leaders, and credible urban ministries (shelters, urban missions, inner-city churches, halfway houses, etc.). Creative teaching times, small group processing, prayer/worship, afternoon electives, evening outreaches, and meals to connect are all included.

Speakers

Jon Peterson
Jon Petersen, raised by missionary parents in Tokyo, Japan, has been dedicated to reaching cities most of his adult life. After graduating from Biola University in 1974, he began church planting amongst the counter-culture youth in the 1970's, Jon, his wife Mindy and three children moved into the Red-Light district of Amsterdam in 1981, serving with Youth With a Mission for thirteen years. After extensive evangelism, church planting and prayer ministry into Eastern and Western European cities, the Petersen's were led back to the United States in 1994. Since then he and his wife continue to serve the church and nations by pastoring, teaching, equipping, etc. They now live in Colorado and oversee 24/7 Boiler Room communities. Jon continues to teach and consult leaders and movements across the United States, Europe and Asia.

Joe Steinke
Joe Steinke, lives in Cottage Grove, WI (near Madison) with his beautiful wife Angie. He is the much loved father of two married daughters and three sons that still live at home. Joe is currently the director of the Greenhouse Community in Madison. This Greenhouse consists of a Learning Community which offers young adults weekly class opportunities to renew their minds with rich, intense, truth filled curriculum and connects them to rhythms of shared meals, prayer and fun with in the community. The Greenhouse also hosts expressions of simple church, interest groups, weeks of 24-7 prayer, shared meals and a group of friends called "Greenhouse Gardeners" who were recently commissioned to launch an official Boiler Room church plant in Madison.
While Joe is at the center of this local young adult buzz, he recently pioneered a new church plant on the East side of Madison. He is deeply connected to the 24-7 prayer movement and is a part of the 24-7 Advisory Team which connects him to a variety of communities all over the United States as well as the world. He is also the founder and director of Platform Productions which is a performing arts team that travels to China during the summer time and shares a hope filled message to the Chinese people in the universal language of art.
Joe has been friends, and peers with Peter Wohler for many years. The Minneapolis, Source Community and The Greenhouse Community have road tripped many times to learn from each other as well as encourage each other with lots of laughter and fun! Joe is delighted to be a fatherly voice into the Source community and longs for the connection between Madison and Minneapolis to grow even stronger in the years to come.

Other highlights include:
- Drum&Easel (interactive art party in a shelter),
- Fallout Friday Art Opening / Open-mic, and
- Hosting interactive stations & Drum Jams at the Minneapolis Mosaic Block Party (annual event to spotlight Mpls local artists)

UMT Topics & Electives Include
- Wholistic-Missional Community,
- staying healthy, Living in the Inner-City, urban diversity, being single – married – kids
- Prayer: hosting a 24/7 prayer week and prayer room, Breathing “in & out”, Intimacy, creative worship, Spiritual Warfare,
- Mission: being a friend & a voice, sharing the faith, Reaching Post Moderns, a “In But Not Of” culture
- Learning: Biblical foundation, Becoming a spiritual father/mother, Leadership, Character, urban sub-cultures,
- Creativity: Arts, Being an Artist, curating a gallery, hosting a coffeeshop, using arts to build community
- Justice/mercy: Homeless Young People, drum&easel (interactive art party in a shelter),
- Hospitality: hosting, meals, spiritual discussion groups, receiving, incarnational living
- Lambs & Prodigals: Harvest is plentiful – Needs of this generation
- Discipleship Homes / Physical needs / Transitional housing / Addictions:

Drum&Easel Art Intensive:
Source Boiler Room, Minneapolis 7/12-7/20
The Drum&Easel Art Intensive Week will be week that we will focus on how communities can use creativity to impact culture and how individual artist can become the full expression of how God made them. Join us for a week of creating, presenting, learning, and serving in the context of relationship, families (children can come!), collaboration and worship. The Week will include: sharing, intensive teaching, worship times, creative workshops, and an interactive Art party at local shelter. You will see and experience the Fallout Urban Art Center and FAI Coop first hand. During the week there will also be opportunity to participate on individual and group art projects as we will be prepping for the Fallout Art Fest at the end of the week.

The Fallout Arts Initiative (FAI) is part of Source. It’s purposes are to 1) resource and equip emerging artist and 2) facilitate creative services that will benefit the poor. The FAI was conceived out a heart to combine creativity, justice, mission, and hospitality. It also allows Source to build relationships and community with the art culture (which is typically highly skeptical of any Christian initiative). Minneapolis has the world’s most theatres per capita and if a very liberal and artistic city. The Fallout Urban Art Center (Gallery, warehouse performance space, prayer room) and the FAI Coop Building (23 different visual and performing studios) is located across the street from the Art Institute/MCAD/Children’s Theatre.

Fallout Art Fest: what’s a great way to serve a poor diverse urban artistic neighborhood? Host an incredible interactive neighborhood artistic block party. Each year we block off the streets in front of the Fallout UAC and the FAI Coop to make room for 2,000 attendees, 100 artist and performers, 5 stages, artist booths, interactive art stations, indy film fest, community murals, kids activities, free food, and one incredible lala-palooza worship circle dancing drum jam.

Guest Artists

Tracy Howe
Tracy Howe, visionary and lead artist of the group, was born in Boulder, CO and now live in a small mountain town called Woodland Park, CO. She loves backpacking and Colorado winters. She was classically trained on the piano and started composing music and writing stories by the age of 12. Her favorite authors are Thomas Merton, Tolkein, Lewis, Nouwen, and Madeleine L’Engle. She listens to all sorts of music and seeks out interesting indie artists. She has a Great Dane. She taught herself Portuguese. She likes espresso. After graduating from Colorado College in 2000, having studied comparative religion and music composition, she spent a year traveling with a missions org through the Southwest United States, Peru and Bolivia. She led worship in churches, schools, prisons, and stayed in over 250 host homes, from San Diego, CA, to indegenous Quechua villages in the Andes Mountains. Since then her dreams of seeing people, communities and nations restored and reconciled to a loving Creator and Father have only grown. She believes that relationship is the primary catalyst for restoration and justice.

Linnea Spransy

24/7-Prayer & Boiler Rooms:

24-7prayer started by accident in September 1999, with a bunch of young people in England who got the crazy idea of trying to pray non-stop for a month. God turned up and they couldn't stop til Christmas! From there the prayer meeting has spread into many nations, denominations and age-groups. Hundreds of non-stop prayer meetings now link up here on the web to form a unique chain of prayer www.24-7prayer.com.

24-7 has become a worldwide, non-stop prayer movement. With 3 dimensions to the movement: 1) A network of Prayer Rooms determined to pray like it all depends on us and live like it all depends on God until the tide turns in our generation
2) A Missions movement quickly arose out of the Prayer Rooms as we received requests to take teams to 'high places' in youth culture.
3) Boiler Rooms – Christ focused, missional prayer communities. Taking the 24/7 values and living them out in wholistic communities.

Source Boiler Room: Source has been to be a friend and a voice to the marginalized and urban sub-cultures since 1995. Source is located in one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the country with over 100 languages spoken within 1.5 miles, across the street from the Art Institute/MCAD/Children’s Theatre, and living amongst the homeless and poverty with 2 shelters within 4 blocks. Wounded, anti-mainstream, post-moderns, artists, homeless youth, urban poor, rainbow kids, drug dealers, prostitutes, Muslim internationals, and music semesters are not just our people group, but they are literally our neighbors.

After nurturing relationships for several years with 24/7 and recognizing similar values and DNA, Source has become a Boiler Room. We’re excited to have a national and international family to be able to give and receive from.

Our goal is to be a Wholistic Cross-Generational Missional Community that is not just in proximately, but is establishing significant relationships and being a light to individuals. We primarily desire to be available to build relationships that allow us to love individuals. Our wholistic approach of being a FRIEND (serving physical, emotional and spiritual needs) and a VOICE (communicating God's love and forgiveness) allows us to reach those who are coming out of devastating and troubling histories, skeptical of Christians and would not come into a church for help or answers.

The Fallout Urban Art Center is somewhat our community hub: it includes – a gallery, performance warehouse, prayer room, showers for homeless youth, kitchen, and a skateramp in the back. We have also combined our energies around initiatives that allow us to better serve needs and are also tools to build relationships - urban outreach, the Fallout Arts Initiative (Fallout Urban Art Center & Art Co-op), annual Art Fest / block party, incarnational living, community homes, transitional housing and Gatherings/Trainings. ??

Arrival & Departure Dates

Please make arrangements to arrive at the locations before corresponding times. If traveling via flights or bus: Please plan to arrive at least 1 hour before and depart 2 hours after “leave” times below. Also, we can make arrangements if you need to arrive the night before.

4-8 day Intensives:

24/7 National Gathering: 5/22-25: specifics TBA

UMT: 5/31 – 6/8 Cost: $225 Arrive 5/31 Noon: - @ Aldrich Presbyterian, 3501 Aldrich Ave S, Mpls - Leave 6/8, after 1pm?

Drum&Easel Art Intensive: 7/12-7/20 Cost: $150 Arrive 7/12 Noon: - @ Fallout Urban Art Center, 2609 Stevens Ave S, Mpls - Leave 7/20, after 3pm

10 week Transit Fuel (includes all three intensives):

Arrive 5/20 in Mpls or 5/21 in Kansas City, MO area (details TBA)

- travel to Mpls 5/26
- stay in Mpls from 5/26-7/28
- Leave Mpls to go home: 7/28, after 8am
· Transit Fuel: will begin with the 24/7 Boiler Room National Gathering in the KC area from 5/21-5/25 and then will be hosted at the Source BR in Mpls from 5/26-7/28.
· Transit Fuel: Individuals need to make plans to arrive in KC area by May 21st or in Mpls by May 20th. And return home from Mpls July 28th.