Preparation for Intercession & Outreach:

Please form a small group or gather with others to first seek the Lord’s face to worship Him on behalf of your region.  Over time, God will prepare your heart and perspective so you can let go of human judgement and offence to love these people and land with God’s love, revelation, understanding and priorities. Then God’s Spirit will lead you as a group to intercede with what Jesus and Holy Spirit are praying. And later God will lead you in how and when and with whom you will be sent in outreach.

If God calls you to regional strategy these lists for prayer and outreach may contribute to the regional impact of Jesus’ kingdom in your city or country region.
See the 83 regions of Australia and 31 local cities/shires of Melbourne listed below.

Some Regional Strategies on Our Heart:

 

1. Prayer for our Regions

We invite  you to use the lists below to identify and pray for your own region regularly. You may like to print these regions so you can pray over other regions also. We sense a tremendous release of God’s power as we do this.

Contact: Sue Tinworth sue@partnersinprayer.org.au

2. Prayer & Worship Gatherings

Initiated and hosted by multiple local churches and ministries, providing regular opportunities for the body of Christ to pray & worship together in various venues, regionally and centrally in and around Melbourne. This needs the active support of pastor’s networks.

We particularly envisage and encourage 24 hour events (e.g. Friday 7pm to Saturday 7pm) that are big enough to challenge us to work with the other churches in our region so we are praying together for our region, and building relationship and the ability to sustain collaborative regional 24/7 prayer and worship in the future. We envisage the inclusion of creative worship expressions such as painting and dance. Collaborative evangelism could arise.

Have a look at:

• www.PrayforAustralia.com.au where local prayer & worship events become part on one continuous relay of 24/7 prayer.
• Seek His Face: http://partnersinprayer.org.au/lilydale-churches-unite-to-seek-his-face-in-24-hour-prayer-and-worship/
• Prayer Furnaces: http://www.generationfire.com.au/the-furnace-24-7-prayer-furnac/
• Burn 24-7: http://burn24-7.com/about/how-to-burn/

Stories:

• • Seek His Face Lilydale 19 Oct 2012 Story: Russell Bratton http://www.facebook.com/welcomeback/requests/#!/SeekHisFace24HourWorshipAndPrayer

 

In practice:

Regional worship gatherings will emerge when there is local initiative and momentum that we can gather around to support. This needs committed church leaders, venues, worship leaders, prayer leaders, artists, dancers, event planners and organisers.

 

3. Freedom Festivals

We see the body of Christ, in different regions around Melbourne, combining resources to host all-age, family-friendly festivals with live music, comedy, evangelistic preaching, food, rides, healing tents, prophetic stalls, dream interpretation stalls, prayer ministry tents, bible study tents, quiet prayer and meditation tents, painting, dancing etc. This can begin by hosting stalls at general regional markets and festivals.

In practice:

Teams from many local churches are already present in local festivals and are collaborating as joint forces and are being discipled. It is another step to host Freedom Festivals – so this will happen when there is Spirit led mobilisation of organisers, evangelists and comedians to preach, and lots of people and resources from many local churches.

Contact:

4. Prayer & Evangelism Training

Lifestyle training includes identity and character development, confession and repentance lifestyle, baptism of water and Holy Spirit, taking communion, living in community with other believers, fasting, learning how to worship God, chat with God, declare blessings, see the needs around you, connect with people, encourage people, identify persons or houses of peace, pray for people, tell your God stories, share good news, lead pre-believers to Christ, baptise people, lead bible discussions, receive from God, meet people’s needs, heal sick people, cast out demons, prophesy, receive words of knowledge, raise the dead.

In practice:

There are obviously many general and applied training courses and processes.

• We are keen to engage in training that is based in relationship– discipleship- rather than event or task based.
• We are examining materials and processes that can be adapted by local trainers to the proposed strategies.
• Let us know training you recommend and trainers and authors who are willing to place their video, audio and written training materials online for people to download free of charge.
• We’d like to hear from evangelists who are willing to disciple others in ‘natural’ supernatural relational evangelism. Is that you?

Contact: Australia for Jesus Tony McLennan tony.mcl@bigpond.net.au

 

Regions

We list these  regions of Australia and our neighbouring nations to prompt you to partners to pray for your region and each others and to prompt you to connect, pray and reach out as the Body of Christ – one Church in your local area.

Spiritually we see ourselves as one in Christ: The Great Southland of the Holy Spirit – Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and Papua, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji and Samoan Islands.

Australian States & Territories:

Officially we are The Commonwealth of Australia – honouring all past and present generations living on this continent – Indigenous and immigrant citizens of our federated nation.

We adopted these 83 regions as useful ways to see parts of Australia that have reasonable geographic affinity.

Victoria

1. Melbourne – CBD & Inner Suburbs
2. Melbourne – Bayside & South Eastern Suburbs
3. Melbourne – Eastern Suburbs
4. Melbourne – Northern Suburbs
5. Melbourne – Western Suburbs
6. Bendigo, Goldfields & Macedon Ranges
7. Bairnsdale & Gippsland
8. Ballarat & Central Highlands
9. Geelong & Great Ocean Road
10. Horsham & Grampians
11. Mildura & Murray
12. Mornington Peninsula & Bass Coast
13. Shepparton & Goulburn Valley
14. Taralgon & La Trobe Valley
15. Yarra Valley & High Country

New South Wales

1. Sydney – CBD, Inner West & Eastern Suburbs
2. Sydney – North Shore & Northern Beaches
3. Sydney – North West & Hills District
4. Sydney – Parramatta & Western Suburbs
5. Sydney – Ryde  Macquarie Park
6. Sydney – Southern Suburbs & Sutherland Shire
7. Sydney – South West & M5 Corridor
8. Albury, Wodonga & Murray
9. Blue Mountains & Central West NSW
10. Coffs Harbour & North Coast NSW
11. Dubbo & Central NSW
12. Far West & North Central NSW
13. Gosford & Central  Coast NSW
14. Gouburn & Southern Tablelands NSW
15. Lismore & Far North Coast NSW
16. Newcastle, Maitland & Hunter
17. Port Macquarie & Mid North Coast
18. Richmond & Hawkesbury
19. Tamworth & North West NSW
20. Tumut, Southern Highlands & Snowy
21. Wagga Wagga & Riverina
22. Wollongong, Illawarra & South Coast NSW

Australian Capital Territory

1. Canberra and ACT

Queensland

1. Brisbane – CBD & Inner Suburbs
2. Brisbane – Bayside & Eastern Suburbs
3. Brisbane – Northern Suburbs
4. Brisbane – Southern Suburbs & Logan
5. Brisbane – Western Suburbs & Ipswich
6. Bundaberg & Wide Bay Burnett
7. Cairns & Far North QLD
8. Gladstone & Central QLD
9. Gold Coast
10. Hervey Bay & Fraser Coast
11. Mackay & Coalfields
12. Mt Isa & Western QLD
13. Rockhampton & Capricorn Coast
14. Somerset & Lockyer
15. Sunshine Coast
16. Toowoombah & Darling Downs
17. Townsville & Northern QLD

Northern Territory

1. Darwin
2. Alice & Central Australia
3. Katherine & Northern Australia

Western Australia

1. Perth -CBD Inner & Western Suburbs
2. Perth- Eastern Suburbs
3. Perth – Fremantle & Southern Suburbs
4. Perth -NorthernSuburbs & Joondalup
5. Perth – Rockingham & Kwinana
6. Broome & Kimberley
7. Bunbury & South West WA
8. Geraldton, Gascoyne & Midwest
9. Kalgoorlie, Goldfields & Esperence
10. Albany & Great Southern
11. Mandurah & Peel
12. Northam & Wheatbelt
13. Port Hedland, Karratha & Pilbara

South Australia

1. Adelaide
2. Adelaide Hills
3. Coober Pedy & Outback SA
4. Fleurieu Peninsula & Kangaroo Island
5. Mt Gambier & Limestone Coast
6. Riverland & Murray Mallee
7. Whyalla & Eyre Peninsula
8. Yorke Peninsula & Clare Valley

Tasmania

1. Hobart
2. Central & South East TAS
3. Devonport & North West TAS
4. Launceston & North East TAS