80% of the world’s evangelical Christians live in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Over the last 50 years, God’s church has grown exponentially in these areas.

These regions have tremendous mission sending potential to help bring the gospel to unreached peoples, but they currently send only 20% of the world’s cross-cultural missionaries!

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Mobilizing prayer for your ministry is one of the most important things you can do. 
 
I would suggest that you mobilize yourself first to be a person of prayer! If you are not passionate about praying it will be very difficult for you to mobilize others to pray. 
 
This is hard for me. Being “faithful in prayer” (Romans 12:12) takes discipline. I frequently need to make new prayer goals to stretch myself. 
 
There are seasons that I have attempted to pray for an hour a day, pray over a specific prayer list, go prayer walking or discipline myself in the area of fasting. 
 
I am haunted by a statement found in James 4:2b “You do not have because you do not ask God.” 
 
I am not sure how that works but I don't want this verse to be true of my life. I do know that God does stuff when we ask him! 
 
If you are planting a new ministry you need God to build it. “Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain.” Psalm 127:1 
 
A section from the classic book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009FHKP22/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&amp;btkr=1">The Kneeling Christian</a> rocked my world the first time I read it. Read it thoughtfully as you consider your own prayer life.

We are in a cosmic battle for the souls of students on campus and we must use the weapons God has given us! 
 
If you want to make an eternal difference in students lives the battle must first be won in prayer.

I don’t need to fight alone. I may not be the greatest prayer warrior but I can get others praying for our ministry! 
 
In his letters the apostle Paul repeatedly modeled seeking out the prayers of others for his ministry. 
 
I am convinced that many of the great things God has done through our ministry are a direct result of the prayers of our ministry partners. 
 
Here are some practical things Christian Challenge does to mobilize prayer:

One practical way we have mobilized prayer is through email prayer letters. We have over 400 people that we send our prayer letter with our current updates, stories and prayer requests. 
 
This is a great way to share what God is doing and get people praying on a consistent basis.

The best tool we discovered for mobilizing prayer is our “text message prayer team.” It’s more personal and similar to live streaming than our emails, which is more of an overview. 
 
I have 70 plus people I send requests to 3-4 times a week. If I have a gospel appointment on campus I just shoot out a text using my group text app and they are able to pray on the spot. 
 
It is such a joy to send out another text after the appointment and celebrate when the student decides to become a follower of Jesus! 
 
This prayer team has served as a great encouragement during seasons of discouragement and spiritual warfare in our ministry. It is faith building to know we have a group of prayer warriors ready to “do work” on a moment’s notice. 
 
I would definitely recommend that you start your own text message prayer team.

We simply ask our students and supporters to sign up for a 30 minutes time slot to pray for the campus. 
 
We make it a habit to do 24hr Pray-a-thons regularly. They serve as a great way to build momentum and prepare for other important events. 
 
There are all kinds of creative ways you can pull them off however we have kept it simple and just put our prayer requests on a Google spreadsheet. We then ask people to sign up for a 30min time slot. 
 
People can sign up online, print off the requests and then pray for our ministry no matter where they are in the world. 
 
Another recent version of a Pray-a-thon we are trying is a “21 Days of Prayer” emphasis where we are asking our ministry partners to pray over a PDF we send them with 21 days of prayer requests leading up to our Fall Semester. 
 
This generation of students is passionate about prayer. It is essential that we mobilize them to become prayer warriors as well. 
 
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/God-Campus-Sacred-Effects-America/dp/0830836314" target="_blank" rel="noopener">God on Campus</a> by Trent Sheppard is an excellent book that describes the modern prayer movement on college campuses and connects them to the history of revivals. 
 
As college ministry leaders let’s join what God is doing and mobilize daily prayer for our campuses and nations.

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<li>What would it look like for you to be "faithful in prayer" personally as you launch your ministry?</li>
<li>How will you mobilize prayer for your ministry?</li>
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This post was adapted from Paul&rsquo;s free ebook <a style="color: #808080;" href="http://www.challengecsuc.com/resources/college_ministry_resources/">&ldquo;Tips for Starting A College Ministry&rdquo;</a>

Mobilizing Prayer for Your College Ministry

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