Also, if you picked us a reader, or pick up a reader in the future and find yourself not using it -- that's OK!! Pass it on to someone else that might use it.
Enjoy! I will post more as we get into the Lenten Reader.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Lenten Readers are IN!!
Asbury Lenten Readers begin TODAY! Lenten readers are short devotional books that start today and end in June. They are wonderful tools to help engage in community life here at Southwestern. If you did not get to pick one up in chapel, stop by Linda Schulz' office in Mossman hall to grab one. Then, let us know you got one and read it in community with your friends/roommates/mentor/whoever. If you need a group to read with let us know at faith@sckans.edu and we will connect you with a community group!
Sunday, January 30, 2011
::Prayer for Belarus::
On Wednesday, January 26, a mission moment was given about Belarus from Mr. Paharely, our own Belarusian scholar at chapel. Many Christians are being persecuted in Belarus. Would you take a moment to pray for them? You could even use this as your "World Moment" for three-love prayer! To hear the short presentation from chapel, click here!
Friday, January 28, 2011
Common Prayer - Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals
Check this article out with Shane Claiborne, courtesy of Relevant Magazine...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Welcome Villagers
Welcome to the SC Village, a collaborative prayer website for the students of Southwestern College. My name is Molly Komlofske and I am starting this blog as a part of my campus ministry internship for the Spring of 2011. I am passionate about prayer, and even more passionate about seeing students engage in prayer and community. This is a project that is meant to be organic in nature -- you aren't going to be "accountable" to a higher power, you aren't being graded or judged, there is no "quota" that must be met for this project. Rather, it's a leading of the Holy Spirit...
This project is simply a call to prayer through daily community rhythm. Prayer rhythms help center your day around prayer...to say the least, it's meshing your life into the rhythm of God's.
I decided to call this "SC Village" because a village, to me at least, has the connotation of an intimate community. I want to invite you into that community, and here is how...
1. Last semester, two of my friends and I started doing prayer rhythms together. We decided that we wanted to be committed to God, prayer and community. Prayer rhythms are various in nature, but this is what we did (on a whim, I might add):
When we woke up: we would say a small, simple prayer by ourselves to begin the day
12:00/Noon: Pray together at lunch
10:00 PM: Have an evening prayer time together in which we prayed for specific campus groups at Southwestern and for one another.
2. I want to invite you all into this....with your friends, roommates, dorm-mates, etc. I want to ask if you to create a small group (Think 2 people and above).
3. Commit to recapping your day and praying together on certain evenings at the same time each night. My friends and I pray together Mon-Thurs. evenings at 10 PM. But you could organize this however you wanted (every other evening, Sunday-Friday, etc.)
4. I will keep this blog updated throughout the semester with new ways to pray, so check back frequently...
5. Don't just follow everything word, for word on this blog -- feel free to be as creative or simple as you want.
6. Share your ideas, e-mail them to me at faith@sckans.edu
7. Throughout the semester we will have larger prayer rallies where ALL groups will be invited to come together for musical worship and corporate prayer...
8. Like I said earlier, you won't be asked to give weekly updates, I really want your group to be your group! However, in order to keep track of who we should keep up with as corporate gatherings come along, I would ask that you would consider e-mailing me at faith@sckans.edu and letting me know that you are starting a group. You don't even have to tell me who is in it :). Just that you could be a contact person.
9. Enjoy! If you have questions, please don't hesitate to e-mail me
10. See the THREE LOVE PRAYER below...a prayer rhythm I would like to first invite you into...
Three-Love Prayer
One of the simplest ways to pray, that I would like to invite you all into, is the three-love prayer. I learned this prayer, and credit it to, 24/7 Prayer International, especially the Kansas City Boiler Room and David Blackwell. It is a very simple prayer rhythm to do with your roommates (or group). It is an outward focused prayer rhythm. My prayer group and I do the three-love prayer over a three day rhythmic cycle that might go something like this...
Monday Evening: Love 1
Tuesday Evening: Love 2
Wednesday Evening: Love 3
Thursday Evening: We do our own prayer thing and re-start 3-love prayer on Monday of the next week
OR you could even separate it into weeks
Week 1: Monday - Thursday evenings, Love 1
Week 2: Monday - Thursday evenings, Love 2
Week 3: Monday-Thursday evenings, Love 3
Love 1: God. "Adoration" - To begin, just start with simple adoration. Think of adjectives that describe God. Think of his characteristics and attributes. Write them down, share them with your group, reflect on them. Paint them. Write them on slips of paper and keep them in a jar. Make this exercise as simplistic or creative as you want.
Love 2: Others. Praying for people - Do exactly that. Gather prayer requests, spend time praying for people.
Love 3: World. Pray for current issues/world - This takes a little bit more preparation on the group's/group members part. Make yourself aware of different current issues going on locally, nationally or internationally. Spend time praying for these issues. Use pictures, stories, anything to make yourself and your group aware.
Three-love prayer is a great way to begin a small prayer group -- it is general enough that anyone can participate, but challenging because it's very altruistic (new word? mean's other-centered :))
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