Timeline for our group in the City of …
Through November 09, 2019
Note: The time line has been altered in names and places. Fill in a restaurant or city Name of your choice.
2014 & Prior
- Fire Pit Worship in City
- Name instructed to move it to City
- Name incursions into City
- Began going to Coffee Shop
- Met with people at Restaurant, Restaurant, etc.
- Evolved into Restaurant Church
2015
- Thursday afternoon worship/prayer meetings for 6 weeks at Name Church of City in the Name Building
- Atmosphere preparation for the upcoming worship in the park
- 09/23: First perimeter walk of City
- Nehemiah: inspecting the walls and the gates (15.77 miles + 2)
- Saturday worship in the park
- Common Name Park (Formal Name Park)
- Saturday, October 17, 2015, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Obtained prayer room on the 3rd floor of the Building Name
- City Altar: the Upper Room
- Began weekly time of prayer and worship
- Fire-Pit Worship move to City
- 10/13: Began prayer walking City city streets (Joshua 1:3)
- Systematically prayed every street, cul-de-sac and dead end (129.44 miles, see map)
2016
- The Altar: weekly worship and prayer
- Establishing unity and worship
- Near daily prayer over the city from the Upper Room
- Street Ministry, Coffee Shop, Etc.
- Weekly Restaurant Church
- 02/11: Finished systematic City streets prayer walking
- 19 walks over 122 days (basically once per week; avg. 6.8 miles per walk)
- Continued prayer walking as led by God
- Summer: Began “Need Prayer?” sessions at Name Park
- Chairs, music, prayed with/for people
- November: The Gates assignment came into being
- Nehemiah: repairing the gates
- December: the first of 10 gates over 10 months was dealt with
- The Lord laid it out as one gate per month
2017
- Continued with 2016 activities
- Spiritual warfare came into focus
- Ministry Name connections
- 09/21: Final gate of the 10 gates project
- 10/07: “Event Name” #1, all city worship in the park
- First annual event at the Venue Name band shell
2018
- Continued with 2016 activities
- July: Name County Fair – first year
- Daily hosts at the church building on the fairgrounds
- Mid to late: dynamics and involvement began to change
- God was shifting the focus for some people
- 10/06: “Event Name” #2, all city worship in the park
- Second annual event at the Venue Name band shell
- The 2016 activities began to morph into what they are today
- Transition time had begun
- Attacks and struggles came along with the warfare
- As they would in a physical war; our refinement
- Attacks and struggles were both corporately and individually
- Further changed the group dynamics
2019
- Brought in the current schedule of activities
- The seed has sprouted
- Early 2019: “The Living Room”, space on the east end of the Building Name; second floor
- Space for group worship and ministry
- Budget quadruples for monthly ministry
- Rent, Restaurant Church and others, Event Name, etc.
- 06/26: Circumcision of the heart for City
- The beginning of something God is doing (Deuteronomy 29:4)
- Shaking and sifting: corporately and individually (Amos 9:9)
- July: Name County Fair – second year
- Daily hosts at the church building on the fairgrounds
- August: The Living Room moved to a 2-room suite on the west side of the second floor of the Building Name
- Warfare significantly ramped up against us
- Sifting and purification in full swing
- 08/24: “Event Name” #3, all city worship in the park
- Third annual event at the Venue Name band shell
- September/October: vision for the future begins coming into focus (John 16:13)
- What are we to become?
- What is our role in City?
- The last six months have been the toughest in the short history of Group Name
- November 10: Sunday Sessions #1
- The first of a new gathering to build unity and fellowship
- Monthly dinner and guided conversation (for now as we begin)
- Warfare significantly ramped up against us