Regionally

You can contribute to the regional impact of Jesus’ kingdom in your city or country region. See the 83 regions of Australia listed below. 

Some Regional Strategies on Our Heart:

Some of this work is natural and ordinary. Some is supernatural and extraordinary.

1. Prayer for our Regions

We are developing a sites where you can list your prayer partnerships, prayergroups and regional Houses Of Prayer as private or public prayer groups that pray for your region.

Register your church or prayer group at www.PrayforAustralia.com.au. Be encouraged to see and be flames on the map!

This helps others can join your group and helps you you connect with other local groups (e.g. periodically or via prayer chain) to pray together for your region.

We invite  you to use the list 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:

Stories:

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.

Contact: Rod Schneider rod@partnersinprayer.org.au

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: Jahleel Shelling js@celebratemessiah.com.au

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 Papau, 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 & Goulbourn Valley
  14. Traralgon & 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
There are also seven offshore Australian Territories 
  • Ashmore and Cartier Islands.
  • Australian Antarctic Territory.
  • Christmas Island.
  • Cocos (Keeling) Islands.
  • Coral Sea Islands.
  • Heard and McDonald Islands.
  • Norfolk Island.

Source: Remote Offshore Territories – Geoscience Australia

There are Towns in Country Regions and Local Municipal Councils  within Cities.

For example in Melbourne:

1.     City of Melbourne
2.     City of Port Phillip
3.     City of Stonnington
4.     City of Yarra
5.     City of Banyule
6.     City of Bayside
7.     City of Boroondara
8.     City of Brimbank
9.     City of Darebin
10.  City of Glen Eira
11.  City of Hobsons Bay
12.  City of Kingston
13.  City of Manningham
14.  City of Maribyrnong
15.  City of Monash
16.  City of Moonee Valley
17.  City of Moreland
18.  City of Whitehorse
19.  Shire of Cardinia
20.  City of Casey
21.  City of Frankston
22.  City of Greater Dandenong
23.  City of Hume
24.  City of Knox
25.  City of Maroondah
26.  City of Melton
27.  Shire of Mornington Peninsula
28.  Shire of Nillumbik
29.  City of Whittlesea
30.  City of Wyndham
31.  Shire of Yarra Ranges

 

We could mobilise many to pray for Melbourne ( e.g. 31 Day Local Cities Prayer Plan)

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