days spent prayer walking the streets of ancient cities...

           nights spent meeting with modern-day Biblical heroes...

shalom and marhaba!

It has been three years since God took me on a mission trip, and He and I (and six others) are headed back on one this coming November. We are journeying back to the Holy Land, from Jerusalem to Jericho, from Bethlehem to BirZeit, where we will be spending twelve days praying over the land and with its people.

The land has been in spiritual, political and social turmoil for over sixty years. It is an immensely complex and yet beautifully simple situation that we are headed into.  We want to walk the streets and pray for change (rather than fight for change, for we do not wage war as the world does). We want to see prayer answered.

We made many contacts back in 2007, and we will be visiting them and others to hear how they're doing, learn what we can do to support them, pray with and encourage them, and be encouraged and prayed over in return. This trip is about relationships and about powerful prayer alongside believers in other lands.

One of the key things our team of seven has recently been learning is that we suck at prayer.  We spend our time talking *to* God instead of talking *with* Him.  We spend our time asking for things *we* think are good, rather than asking Him what *He* wants us to ask for.  And we are more focused on finding things to improve our external circumstances, rather than improving our internal and eternal character. We want this trip to change us, and to change us dramatically.

And thus I am seeking your help.  I need you to pray with me, leading up to this trip and during it.  I would love for you and others to cast a net of prayer over this entire process.  And then we can all watch and marvel as the LORD steps in and impacts the whole thing in real, specific and un-looked for ways. So may I count on you for praying for this trip?  I will be sending out a monthly email, up to November, highlighting the whole process, celebrating the victories and pushing through the challenges.  I really would like to have you a part of this.  If you're interested, simply let me know.

The financial needs of the trip total around $21,000 for the whole team, the majority of which we need to raise by August 05.  So if you feel nudged by God to tack on a financial donation to your prayer support, by all means, we'll take it! Any donation you make is tax-deductible, as Rekindling Ministries is administering everything for us. (Any surplus in donations will go to Rekindling's other ministry work, including workshops, small groups, counseling & future mission trips.)

After prayerfully considering all this, if you want to be a part of this whole crazy thing, simply fill out the attached form and mail it back to me.

passionately His and sincerely yours,

shannon w kirkpatrick

Directions for Prayer Support:

Reply back and let me know you'd like to be added to our Prayer Chain.

Directions for Financial Donations:

Via check:

     - Make the check out to Rekindling Ministries

     - In the memo line, write: Israel Palestine Trip 2010

     - Make sure you give us your full name and mailing address (so we can send you Tax Donation Letter in January).

     - Mail to Rekindling Ministries  14001C Saint Germain Drive Suite 643  Centreville, VA 20121

Via credit card:

     - Go to Rekindling's secure website

     - follow the instructions and complete the required info

     - in the memo box put:  Israel Palestine Trip 2010