Adoption Guidance Program - Onsite Prayer Journey Checklist

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On-Site Prayer Journey: Checklist

The steps below are offered as a guide, but may not match your church’s structure or way of decision-making. There are several ways to implement an adoption within a church. This is one suggested process which we have tried to make as generic as possible. It is our hope that you will be able to adapt the suggested steps to fit your situation. These steps assume that an unreached people has already been adopted. Allow three to six months to prepare.

Step by Step:
1. Contacting Agencies/ Field Personnel

Share your vision and plan with those who may be engaged with this people. See Locating<> Potential Networks or Members.
Ask for recommendations, cautions and concerns.

2. Preparing the Congregation

Contact Christian<> Information Network (CIN) on how to pray for unreached peoples and how to select a team
Pray about the possibility of a prayer journey to this people
Present the vision to the pastor and missions committee
Acquire approval from the pastor and elders for involvement in project and selection of prayer coordinator
Select a prayer coordinator
Select an administrative support team (for each proposed journey team)
Use To the Ends of the Earth (Praying Through The Window III) video from CIN or similar materials and present to the congregation
After the congregation views the video, present the prayer journey vision and challenge the congregation to be involved
Announce a meeting for those interested in participating (Adopt-A-People Clearinghouse)
Distribute copies of a prayer calendar to the congregation and recruit home-based intercessors
Gather prayer resource materials from CIN,<> USCMW (US Center for World Mission),<> AAPC (Adopt-A-People Clearinghouse), and/or Prayer<> Resources on the Web.

3. Preparing the Team

Select the Prayer Journey Team
Assign a Prayer Journey Coordinator and a Travel Logistics Coordinator
Journey Team members recruit personal intercessors
Form a partnership with your denominational missions board or another mission agency for help in planning and finding onsite contacts
Find an onsite guide (perhaps through a mission agency or through CIN,<> especially if part of Praying Through the Window)
Begin fund raising for the journey
Register the journey with CIN
Gather prayer resources about the people (see Conducting<> Research)
Begin ongoing team weekly prayer and planning meetings
Research the culture and customs of the unreached people, including security issues
Order and read books on prayer, spiritual warfare, praying for the world, etc.
Contact CIN regarding training, and other materials (See<> Organizing an On-site Prayer Journey)
Locate and contact other churches that have done prayer journeys to learn from them
Research and develop a realistic travel budget
Develop team relationships and team building exercises
Invite speakers familiar with your adopted people to address your journey team

4. Supporting the Team

Order relevant books and brochures for the church book table
Have the prayer coordinator organize a concert of prayer and recruit coworkers
Assign a media coordinator to develop publicity for the Concert of Prayer
Hold a Concert of Prayer event featuring your adopted people and the prayer journey team
Have the prayer coordinator organize a retreat for the journey team and home based intercessors together

5. Stepping Out

Assign an In-City Prayer walk Coordinator to recruit a team to plan a local prayer walk
Conduct a minimum of one prayer walk in your city (in an unfamiliar ethnic area if possible)
Hold a team debriefing and strategy session following the prayer walk
Have the prayer coordinator plan a social event for the complete team and support network
Hold a social event including the journey team, the home based team and family members, the missions committee and pastors
Hold a commissioning ceremony (at worship services on the Sunday before the journey team departs)
The prayer journey team departs
Provide prayer coverage for the journey team and the adopted people 24 hours per day by the congregation during the time the team is gone
Remind personal intercessors to continue praying

6. Debriefing and Reporting

When the team returns hold debriefing sessions
Report to the congregation
Continue prayer coverage for an additional two weeks upon the team’s return home
Consider a second Concert of Prayer and Praise with the congregation
Submit a formal report to CIN (either written or taped)
If a people is formally adopted during or after the prayer / prayer journey phase, register the adoption with AD2000<> & Beyond and Adopt-A-People<> Clearinghouse

ADOPTION REGISTRATION, using the People Commitment Registration Form (Located at the Joshua Project II website.)
Please register using the People Commitment Registration Form (Located at the Joshua Project II website.) your adoption with us so that we can keep track of which peoples have not yet been adopted. We will also use your information to help link churches who have adopted the same people, or others involved within the group. Be assured that the information you share with us will not be used for solicitation of funds or sold to any fundraising organization.

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