Viva Italia Prayer Initiative
“Io son venuto perche abbiano la vita e l’abbiano in abbondanza.”
Giovanni 10:10
“I have come that they may have life and have it in abundance.”
John 10:10
“Prayer is the work…” Oswald Chambers
Knowing that the 59 million people of Italy are precious to Jesus and that He desires them to have eternal and abundant life, we desire to initiate “the work” of intercession for the 20 regions of Italy and the Vatican City. To undertake this awesome task, we propose that a church or group of believers form a team and prayerfully select a region. They would become prayer strategists for this region. In order to do so they would need to:
- do research from books and internet,
- connect with IMB, Great Commission Christian Workers, and other Christian entities and churches in that region to get a better understanding of prayer needs and the culture,
- become prayer mobilizers for their region worldwide, ( Prayer mobilization could take the form of developing prayer networks, bulletins, emails, websites, special prayer days or services, regular prayerwalking trips, videos, and a variety of other expressions.)
- and possibly even make a visit to their region to get a feel for the lostness of their people.
We further propose that the IMB teams that are already in existence in Rome (Lazio), Naples (Campania), and Milan (Lombardy) would be the prayer strategists for their regions and be an example to the future partner churches or groups. This prayer initiative would lay the ground work for seeing IMB personnel and short term workers filter out responsive seekers and form small groups that would lead to church all across Italy so that the Italians may “have life, and have it in abundance.” John 10:10
20 Regions of Italy:
- Aosta Valley (Valle d’Aosta)
- Piedmont (Piemonte)
- Lombardy (Lombardia)
- Trentino-Alto Adige / Sudtirol
- Veneto
- Friuli-Venezia Giulia
- Liguria
- Emilia-Romagna
- Tuscany (Toscana)
- Umbria
- Marches (Marche)
- Lazio
- Abruzzo
- Molise
- Campania
- Apulia (Puglia)
- Basilicata
- Calabria
- Sicily (Sicilia)
- Sardinia (Sardegna)
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This is stinking awesome! THANK YOU!!! Perfect! Robin
This is exactly what we need to see our church planting movements take a leap in the right direction!
That sounds really great!!!!! My family and I have lived here in Rome for 2 years now and we see that this is one of the greatest need for the city. We say yes to the project. We are on staff with Campus Crusade for Christ working with the families of the city.