SON Update Report
Name:
SON Update Report
Date:
December 17, 2018
Event Description:
It's time for take-off!
On this day in 1903, the Wright Brothers made their first sustained motorized aircraft flight at a beach in Kitty Hawk, NC and the last 115 years have never been the same. At that time, most people around the world had absolutely no idea what just happened, didn't really care anything about it and never truly realized what those short 12 seconds in the air did to forever change their world. In August 2016, when God directed us to close down the Christian Chamber of Commerce, I kept hearing in my heart, this is not a dead-end, it?s a run-way! Well, a run-way is a dead-end, unless you take off!
Wow, did we take off! As we have continued our weekly Saturday morning SWAT (See What Agreement Transforms) Prayerwalks in downtown Portland (started in Sept 2015), God has continued to transform our communities for His glory! In February of 2018, we began working more directly with Chris Overstreet and his Compassion to Action Portland 2018 (Wed-Sat, Sept 19-22 at the Oregon Convention Center) in order to pray, plan and prepare our region for what God had put in his heart towards launching a discipleship movement across our nation. We had at least 7,500 register for Portland 2018, wherein 78% came from Oregon & Washington, 52% came from the greater Portland/Vancouver metro area & the remaining Disciple Makers came from at least 40 states across America and at least 25 nations from around the world. We also had at least 70 local churches partner with us & 35 local ministries (along with another 30 churches throughout our region), wherein at least 450 Disciple Makers committed to walk with new (& renewing) believers for at least a year and we had at least 225 recorded decisions with hundreds more saved, healed and delivered on the streets of Portland, as thousands participated in outreaches during Flood Portland (Mon-Tue, Sept 17-18 at Pioneer Courthouse Square) and on Friday & Saturday during the afternoon outreaches. Read the Follow-Up Report of what has begun for our city, nation & world.
In April of 2018, we began working with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association's Decision American Pacific Northwest Tour with Franklin Graham (Sun, Aug 5th at the Clackamas County Fair Grounds in Canby, Oregon), wherein we saw 12,200 folks participate with at least 466 decisions made for Christ and at least 450 local churches partner with this regional outreach. The BGEA leadership was very grateful for our partnership & overwhelmed with the response, which was the largest event that they had seen in all the Texas, Tennessee, California, Oregon & Washington tours (until Spokane peak out at 15,000 a few weeks later).
For the past 10 years, we have been believing and agreeing with God for a prophesied "Marketplace Revival" and for the past 20 years, we have been agreeing for our region & city to be healed, revived, reformed and transformed into a "Model for the Nations", a "City of Refuge", a "Beacon of Righteousness & Justice" and that "Portland would be a Portal for the Holy Spirit"! Even though we began working on the Marketplace Coalition (a new model for the former Christian Chamber of Commerce) and facilitated 4 Marketplace Luncheons in January (with Patrice Tsague), March (with James & Anna Kramer), April (with Carl Casanova) & July (with Ford Taylor), we believe that 2019 is the year that we will see this new model really take flight and transform cities throughout our nation and world. (Review the Chantell Cooley word release by the Elijah List on Tue, Dec 11th)
Can you believe in and support the Kingdom work that we are doing, together, by donating on a monthly basis ($1K, $500, $250, $100 or $50) or with a special one-time donation of any amount? To invest into Serving Our Neighbors, send checks to PO Box 90784, Portland, OR 97290, use www.paypal.me/servingourneighbors to make a one-time donation or use the PayPal button on our website to set up your monthly donations.
Thank you for your generous support of what God has been doing throughout our community & specifically our work in mobilizing ongoing revival prayer, reformational collaborations, transformational trainings & strategic generosity for the past 20 years!
James Autry (503-515-5647)
Executive Director & Community Collaborator
www.ServingOurNeighbors.org
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