These weekly groups connect pastors to supportive, worshipful, scripture-based prayer times. We seek God together and provide encouragement to each one engaged in full-time ministry. The format begins with an upward focus on worshipping God. Then we bring our personal concerns and what is on our heart before God. Thirdly, we turn outwards, bringing the needs of the community, nation, and world before God. Pastors find great comfort in having a safe place to be vulnerable and connect with other pastors who understand the joys and challenges of ministry. Currently we have around fifty pastors praying in nine different groups.

These half or full-day sessions allow pastors to be refreshed through the Word, worship and prayer. It gives them time to focus on God together in community, providing the opportunity to connect in unity with others from different local churches.

Bill and Tim teach on prayer and share about the exciting way God is working in Whatcom county. It can be challenging for pastors to introduce a culture of prayer to churches and yet it can be the most effective and rewarding part of ministry, especially when they see how powerful it is to take time to worship God and seek his face as a congregation. We teach, train and equip churches to initiate and maintain a culture of prayer and worship as they grow in intercession. Teaching at local church retreats provides opportunities to connect with local congregations and minister in ways that refresh pastoral staff and congregants. It provides opportunities for the body of Christ to grow in the area of intercession and to hear more of what God is doing across the county and beyond. “Prayer does not equip us for some greater works—prayer is the greater work” (Oswald Chambers, 1924).

We connect with ministry leaders within the Nooksack and Lummi tribes every week. We receive their prayer requests and these are taken to the First Nation prayer focus group at the Prayer center for a time of intercession on their behalf. We actively participate in supporting our native brothers and sisters in the Nooksack and Lummi nations in both prayer and fellowship opportunities. We are expectant for God to work in a mighty way within the tribes to see transformation in their communities.

Prayer walks weekly around local schools have increased and there is a real need to intercede for the next generation. Many young people have suffered greatly from mental and emotional stress over the past few years. Many are seeking for meaning and desperately need to know the love of Christ for themselves. We prayer-walk around every school in Whatcom County, with two teams covering two schools every week. A third team worships and intercedes for those teams and specific schools for that week, from the house of prayer. We partner with the Gideons in their distribution of New Testaments. Whatever school they distribute on a Wednesday, we pray around that particular school on a Tuesday afternoon.

We focus on 9 spheres of influence within society. Representatives in each sphere ensure strategic prayer requests are passed on to Tim Scott, our Day2Pray Coordinator at the Prayer Center. Tim then sends the compilation of requests to participating local churches for the Day2Pray initiative. Each participating church takes one day a month to pray in hourly shifts for a 24hr period if possible. The ‘prayer baton’ is then picked up by the next participating church for the following 24hrs and so on. Our goal is to maintain a continual canopy of prayer over Whatcom county. As the body of Christ links arms in prayer across the county, churches pray in their own location and in their own tradition. We value the rich expression of faith within the body of Christ and stand united before the throne of God. If you would like to know more about becoming involved in the Day2Pray, please contact Tim Scott: 360-483-8691.

Teams of intercessors visit locations of different Christian ministries within Whatcom County. They pray for the staff individually who serve in these ministries. They also pray for those whom the ministry serves, for the impact of the ministry to transform lives, and introduce people to the wonderful love of Jesus Christ. Many people who are serving in challenging areas of ministry need encouragement themselves and be strengthened through prayer. If you are involved in a local Christian ministry and would value prayer, please email us at info@lowpc.org with the details. Someone will get back to you as soon as possible.

LOWPC is connected in a deep way with what God is doing ‘at home’ locally, nationally and also around the world, networking with strategic prayer initiatives and prayer ministries. We gather local prayer leaders together and also collaborate with state initiatives. This included joining the prayer tour around the Capitol building in Olympia, during the legislative session. For three consecutive years, we hosted a prayer team from South Korea. Many teams came to different cities in America to pray for the nation. Internationally, God is at work in many countries in powerful ways, and this is an intrinsic part of the prayer ministry at LOWPC. As the body of Christ joins together in prayer across the globe, we fully anticipate God will do more than we can even think or imagine, amongst those who have still not heard the gospel of Jesus Christ. The Lamb will have the nations as his inheritance.