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Pastor\’s Prayer Summit
Title: Pastor\’s Prayer Summit
Location: Deerfield Farm in Eutaw
Start Date: 2009-10-26
Start Time: 8:00 am
End Date: 2009-10-27
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The Tuscaloosa Prayer Network (TPN) welcomes you to our website. Our goal is to unify the Church in greater Tuscaloosa for the glory of God. We seek to accomplish this through building relationships between pastors, facilitating outreach opportunities that bring congregations together, and most importantly, through prayer.
Current News
Title: Pastor\’s Prayer Summit
Location: Deerfield Farm in Eutaw
Start Date: 2009-10-26
Start Time: 8:00 am
End Date: 2009-10-27
Harvest of Hope
The vision is great and the need is greater. Rebuilding our community through the love of Christ is an opportunity now attainable through the recent partnership of the Tuscaloosa city government, and churches in the surrounding area. The mission is called “Adopt a Neighborhood” and it is the ministry part of the mayor’s HOPE Initiative. The purpose of the HOPE Initiative is to focus people and resources toward seven neighborhoods that have high levels of crime and poverty. Groups of churches are adopting each of these neighborhoods. Congregations are partnering together to pray and to saturate these areas with the love and compassion of Christ, both in word and action. The congregations ministering to the residents of zone 7 are Tuscaloosa First Assembly, Grace Church, St. Matthias Episcopal Church, and Cornerstone Christian Fellowship. This zone consists primarily of three apartment complexes close to Bowers Park: Forrester Gardens, Watergate, and Copper Creek Apartments.
On May 2nd, the churches hosted a block party in a field close to these neighborhoods. The purpose was to draw out the people so that we could get to know them and they could get to know us. Several hundred people came out including adults, youth, and children. The party included food, games, inflatable play equipment for the children, and a drawing for various door prizes. A highlight of the afternoon was a boxing exhibition performed by a local hero Olympic medal champion Deontay Wilder. He gave a challenge to the younger generation to pursue God’s purpose and call for their life. He also signed autographs and posed for photos.
The next step includes a Kids Bible Club on each of the Saturdays in June and a gathering of the churches on July 4th at Camp Tuscoba; people from the churches will be inviting residents from this area to come, offering them transportation if they need it. Plans are also in the works for some after school tutoring and summer prep work on academics. Before school starts there will be a time for giving backpacks filled with school supplies to students who have need. These activities are just the beginning of what we hope will be a long term ministry to change the lives and hearts of the people in these areas.
If you would like to participate in the ministry of the HOPE Initiative please contact William Scroggins at 462-9916 or William@tuscaloosaprayer.net .