My Urbana Experience

My Intercessory Prayer Team

Urbana 12 would now mark my 3 consecutive Urbana.  Urbana 06 I was a student participant where I received motivation to finish my Engineering Degree, Urbana 09 I served as an intern and steward, and now Urbana 12 where I served on the intercessory prayer team.  Out of all 3 of these experiences, I would have to say that being on the prayer team was one of the most fulfilling.

There were multiple prayer teams serving at Urbana.  What the Intercessory Prayer team was, was there were 8 teams of 8 praying around the clock for the whole duration of Urbana.  There was a specific room in our hotel where the 24 hours prayer was happening.  Each team did 3 hour shifts in that prayer room.  Those who were not praying in the room, some were deployed to select seminars and there was always a team praying at each plenary session.

It was amazing being able to interceed for Urbana in the way that we did.  We witnessed God answering our prayers almost immediately after we prayed for specific things.  A big theme that came up for our group was the theme around ending Genercide (Click here to listen to Chai Ling's story) where a lot of our prayers were focused specifically around restoring the right identities of men and women.  There came, in our prayer times, times of repentance on behalf of men an women, women and men praying and blessing each other and forgiving each other in how we have wronged each other.  It was such a beautiful thing to witness and we all received a great deal of healing around the way we view the opposite gender.

Not only did we receive a lot, God also had something much larger in mind.  As a result of these prayers, God was pressing on the hearts of MANY from Urbana to receive Prayer Ministry (Inner healing on identity).  In Urbana 09, out of the 17,000 that was at Urbana, 2,000 went through the prayer ministry room.  For this Urbana, out of 16,000 that was there, 6,000 went through the prayer ministry room!!  Over 1/3 of Urbana was seeking to restore their identities rightly with Jesus.  In the prayer ministry waiting room, people were choosing to wait for over an hour to receive prayer ministry.  God has indeed done amazing things in the hearts of those at this Urbana and will continue to do so in the years to come.

Through my experience in intercessory prayer, I now see the value of prayer SO MUCH more than I could have ever imagined.  I now know the power of prayer and the authority that Jesus gives to those whom He calls to be intercessors.  When we pray with the authority of Jesus Christ... things happen.  Our students also believe this to be true.  As we continue to serve the SFU campus, God has placed on all their hearts the desire to be intercessors for their campus.  Our leaders then decided that we need to be covering our campus in prayer and we are now meeting every Friday at 7:30 AM to Prayer Walk the SFU Burnaby Campus.  Already, we have been receiving some exciting promises from God during these prayer walks and are looking forward to seeing what happens this semester.

Please join us in interceding for the SFU Campus:
7:30 - PST (BC)
8:30 - MST (AB)
9:30 - CST (SK, MB)
10:30 - EST (ON)
11:30 - AST (NS)