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United Nations Prayer Summit
By John Godson
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Two hundred delegates from fifty nations attended the
first ever United Nations Prayer Summit.
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It was a privilege to participate in the first ever United Nations Prayer Summit, organized by the International Prayer Council and World Vision International in association with New York City churches and prayer networks. Held 8-13 September 2007, there were about two hundred delegates from over fifty nations. Some of the main points of the summit were:
- Praying for the United Nations and its representatives
- Praying for United Nations ambassadors. About twenty-five of them were present and shared their needs. We prayed for each of them individually.
- Praying for the United Nations millennium goals:
1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2. Achieve universal primary education
3. Promote gender equality
4. Reduce child mortality
5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop global partnership for development
- Taking a prayer cruise around New York
- Doing a prayer walk at Ground Zero, where the terrorist attacks occurred on 11 September 2001
We thank God for the work he is doing within the United Nations and for the group of United Nations staff that meets regularly to intercede and pray.
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John Abraham Godson, a native of Nigeria, has been serving as a missionary in Poland for the past thirteen years. He is international director of Pilgrim Mission International. Godson also serves as chair for the Lausanne Intercession Working Group in Eastern Europe/Eurasia and as international facilitator for the Network of Nigerian Missionaries Overseas. |
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Hello Godson, wonderful to read about the prayer summit in New York ... if I had known about that a bit early, I would have phoned you an other time for the radio. So if you manage, next time please inform about such an event. We started a weekly prayer program at ERF radio \"beten@erf.de\" this month. It includes personal prayers for our listeners and praying for the country and for political issues. Also I have been doing a lot of talks for TV the last two years. But my heart is for prayer ... maybe some day we will have also a regular prayer program via TV. We plan to enlarge our TV activities .... Merry Christmas and love in Jesus, Ingrid Heinzelmaier (ERF radio in Germany - we met at Pattaya)
Ingrid Heinzelmaier :: 23 Dec 2007
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