Cool Stuff

Thought I'd post about something cool that's happening at McKinney Church. 

Every month, on the second Tuesday of the month, we have a time of Churchwide Prayer. We encourage everyone to come pray together about the things going on in our church and in the world. We spend focused time on the missionaries we support, and the local ministries we partner with in Fort Worth. It's a really neat time. 

For the 2 years I've been at McKinney, Churchwide Prayer has been like prayer events at every other church with whom I'm familiar; sparsely attended. 

Actually, that's probably an understatement. You could fire a rubber playground ball out of a canon in the worship center, and never worry about hitting anyone. The elders, deacons, and pastors showed up, along with a handful of other people, but the turnout was somewhere around 1 percent of our congregation. 

Over the last few months, something has been happening.

Back in September, a teenage girls' discipleship group showed up to Churchwide Prayer because their leader was going following the group meeting and invited them to join her. In October, two teenage girls' discipleship groups showed up. In November, the guys figured out where the girls were, and they showed up. And in December, for the first time ever, teenagers outnumbered adults at Churchwide Prayer, and we were closer to 5 or 6 percent of our overall congregation at Churchwide Prayer.  Still not where we want to be, but getting there in a hurry. 

If you study church history, you know that many of the great movements of God in the past began with a small group of praying young people. I don't know what God is up to at McKinney, but I'm excited to be a part of it.