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Updated: July 2008

Along with the general list below in the left margin... There are some urgent & practical things Source is lifting up and we invite you to pray with us. Some of these have been expressed in the prayer room during the 24/7 prayer weeks in the past. Others are specifics of our on going outreach and programs.

This can be an overwhelming list: we tried to start the list with some overall themes of how we would ask people to pray with us at the top of the page and then give more details below. Please don't feel you need to pray for each one, but pray with us as you feel lead. We also have a heart to have others praying along side of us: email us and let us know how God is directing you to pray. Also let us know if you want to be on a monthly prayer update list

Overall Prayer Themes

Fallout Art Fest
Saturday, July 19, we are hosting our 6th annual Fallout Art Fest. Pray for all who are helping and involved in the event. We will have around 2,000 people here for music, art, dancing, food and celebration. It will be a great opportunity to spread to good news and love of God.

New Season
- We continue to pray that and celebrate God hearing our prayers and forming a cross generational community. We see a formation of spiritual mom's, dad's, grandpa's, uma's, big bro's, and big sistas. God has also lead us to develop relationships with 24-7Prayer Boilerroom Communities around the world. This has given us a national and international extended family of communities with a similar DNA. The new year is representing a new formation and lots of new faces. A permanent Urban Prayer Room at the Fallout, new prayer rythmes, a church plant along side of Source, new infrastructure to see Source grow and continue, development and networking, and new outreach initiatives are all part of this new season we are in.

- Passion for Jesus and the lost
- Discernment and laborers to restructure and see a network form around the of reaching the marginalized, the arts and discipleship homes
- Formation of a wholistic cross-generational missional community as God gathers new faces in 2008 through the 24/7 Boilerroom and a church plant.
- Provision and resources as finances are stressed during this time of restructuring.

Biggest challenges
Located in one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the country (arts, international, urban poor), challenges of serving those coming out of addictions and with low life skills, understaffed, under financed, living incarnationally and raising families in urban settings, providing house for those with low employment skills, people group very skeptical of Christians, sexual and drug abuses, spiritual warfare, we have grown to large for our current infrastructure, and unity. After operating for over 10 years God seems to be leading us to set up, manage, and lead things differently so we can handle our recent expansions and be able to grow in the future. This is a season that much time must be devoted to infrastructure things pray for this, and as the demands of our ministry continue through it.

Source's Desire To see God Move:

- Renewed passion for prayer and sharing the gospel
- Seekers of Gods Presence: lovers of Jesus, lovers of worship
- More, give us more, 100 fold in next 10 years as last 10 years
- Ambassadors of the kingdom to the least of these, the left out
- Healthy maturing community: growing, repenting, forgiving
- Cross-Generational Family to receive the lambs and prodigals
- Infrastructure to hold recent growth and be able to continue to grow
- Forgiveness, Letting Go, Restoration

Prayer Theme: Col 4:2-6: Thankful, Watchful, Open Doors

- May we always be thankful
- Pray that we may be watchful of how God is moving around us
- Pray for Doors to open with individual lives, within the culture, and within people groups and institutions

Source General Organizational & Urgent Prayers Summary(details below)
- Discernment and Direction as we are in a season of new growth and new laborers gathering around Source and the boilerroom
- Passion for prayer and the Gospel
- At-risk, Skeptical, Hurting young people in our city/country
- New life would be breathed into Source:
- Building a solid Core: (cross-generational, families, staff, new laborers, skilled organizers)
- Source Organizational Prayers
--- Source Infrastructure: Transitional Housing & Fallout Arts Initiative become established subsidiaries
----- - Fallout Arts Initiative (FAI):
-------- - Art Co-op: New Members - Need Studio Renters Right Away (Praying for 6 new members by end of March)
-------- - Fallout Urban Art Center: That it would be a safe, welcoming, and appealing place for urban sub-cultures to come dwell and build fruitful relationships and spiritually significant conversations.

Overall Prayer Requests

Discipleship Homes (Environments of growth)
Lambs, the Prodigals -For the young and vulnerable in the family of God, our family. May they not have to be alone and fend for themselves, may the prodigals receive grace and support, may they be received with celebrations of their homecoming. May they find a family that gives them a loving place to grow: to begin their walk, t o rest, a place where it's ok to not be ok, where when they fail and are embarrassed and the world rejects them they can come and find a warm fire and a hug. Where they can be challenged to overcome and live out the plans that the kingdom has for them. A place to have healthy friends, big brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts, moms and dads, grandmas and grandpas

Source Community Prayers

Source General Organizational & Urgent Prayers (details)

New life would be breathed into Source:
- Passion for prayer and voicing the truth of Jesus clearly
- Source began in '87, and Wohlers (current directors) became involved in '95. Pray that God would bring a fresh spirit into many facets of Source that would allow Source to be an effective Missional Discipleship Community that would see the marginalized and urban poor introduced to the Kingdom and grow in being mature followers of Christ..

Building a solid Core: (cross-generational, families, staff, new laborers, skilled organizers)
- Pray for a cross-generational community that is at the core of Source. Spiritual Mums and Pops that would have an adoptive Spirit, take ownership, and help nurture the Source DNA in all the programs, events, and people that participate.
- Pray for church formations along side of Source, direction and discernment, and the practicals of raising and providing for families,
- Pray for: o Source Staff and Families "

Source Organizational Prayers Source Infrastructure:
-- Expand our current board and network with area churches and individuals. (This will be key for future growth)
-----pray for meetings that will be happening this winter and spring for 20 key people that want to be key parts of helping Transitional Housing and the FAI grow

Transitional Housing & Fallout Arts Initiative become established sub-sideries (seems not very spiritual to pray for, but the reality is we need a new wine skin to hold all that God has given us to steward.. this is probably to most challenging and when in place is the most empowering aspects to ministry)
- WE have grown since 1995 and especially over the last 3-5 years. We need an infrastructure, resources, and personnel that is able to support the vision, facilities, programs, and community we have grown into. Some area of operations have grown too large for a small community to support. They are currently being stunted and need to be repotted in a pot that can sustain and allow them to grow to their potential. We believe this needs to be done a different way than it has in the past and that goes beyond our current leadership resources and giftings.
--- Property Management, Development/Grantwriting Team, operational task forces for the FAI and Transitional Housing, and support staff are all pieces that are currently not in place.
--- Seeing growth happen as we have been faithful with what we are given has been a testimony of Source since 1995.
----- In 2006 the Fallout Arts Initiative (FAI) was solidified as the Arts branch of Source grew from Creative Service Initiatives and the Fallout Urban Art Center. The FAI now also includes an Art Co-op and a newly refurbished 12,000 sq ft Co-op Studio Building.
----- Since 1995 Source Transitional Housing has been a powerful tool but one that has also demanded much time and resources.

--- To both continue and see this vision grow in 2006 we began to announce the desire to have a subsidiary Transitional Housing organization develop that could help resource and network organizations, churches, and individuals to see 50 bedrooms and a farm happen by 2011. - Hiring a Transitional Housing Director, Retiring a $200,000 mortgage on the Joshua House 4plex and $80,000 to finish the 3rd floor (over $140,000 was raised by end of 2007), are all key prayers and significant tasks for 2008.
--- FAI & Transitional Housing to be set up as subsidiaries that can sustain themselves while still being rooted in the Source Community,
--- Skilled Individuals to commit to being part of a 2 year process

Fallout Arts Initiative (FAI):
- Art Co-op: New Members - Need Studio Renters Right Away (Praying for 6 new members by end of March)
--- Divine Appointments for individuals to come be apart of the Co-op. We desperately need 8-12 co-op members to rent studio spaces and will have a 900 sq ft and 1,600 sq ft studio spaces available with an April deadline. Pray for artist that will be significant in helping us pioneer this vision.
- Fallout Urban Art Center: That it would be a safe, welcoming, and appealing place for urban sub-cultures to come dwell and build fruitful relationships and spiritually significant conversations.
--- Regulars
--- Fallout Art Openings & Events (Disgrace: good Friday service)

Future Housing (4 plex behind Fallout)
We would love to be able to own the 4plex directly behind the Fallout Urban Art Center. One of our staff was told by the caretaker that it will be selling shortly. It needs lots of work as well. Pray we contact the owner and the financing can be worked out.

Discipleship Farm

Volunteers & Mentors
construction volunteers as well as those with a vision to come be part of communities that provide an family/environment of growth.