An organic prayer gathering will take place on December 1st in Washington Square Park at 7:14pm, where folk from all different churches and ministries in NYC will gather and claim 2 Chronicles 7:14 for our amazing city:
“If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”
This prayer gathering will be mirrored in 20+ other cities around the world.
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To express the boundary-breaking nature of God and his explosive grace, “Love Without Borders” was the theme of Agape Week 2010! April 5th-12th was a week of diverse and campus-engaging events ranging from a hip-hop concert to a Q&A about doubt. It was a time for all who wanted to experience the Lord of Heaven and Earth in His fullness —after all, “God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world but to save the world”—no borders attached.

Monday, April 5
Jonathan Walton, Columbia grad and modern-day abolitionist, spoke about debt bondage, sexual exploitation and labor slavery to open this year’s Agape Week event. As students and consumers, attendees were counseled to leave a mark on the system that supports the 32-billion dollar and 27-million victim industry of human trafficking. Things we can do to help:

Investigate the labor practices of the manufacturers and business we patronize
Support Restore NYC (the only rehabilitation center for sexually exploited women in NYC)
Push our favorite companies to go slave-free
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“The Baptism of the Holy Spirit” is an intimidating theme for a spring retreat—for those who don’t know the Spirit is a mighty but gentle person who is ever eager to show up in our everyday lives.

And that’s exactly what the group of Seedlings who went on the weekend trip to Pennsylvania quickly found out, so the daunting task of decoding the Spirit’s operations soon became an opportunity to learn just how to cooperate with this Wonderful Counselor.

The Veritas Forum was started at Harvard by a group of students, faculty, and ministers as a response to the emptiness on campus. They believed that universities no longer address the most important questions of life, such as, “What does it mean to be human? Why is there evil and suffering? Is there any meaning in death?” In fact, an ongoing UCLA study shows that over 50% of entering freshmen hope to explore and define their beliefs during college. Yet the classroom rarely allows students to engage questions of meaning, purpose or faith. In ignoring such questions, universities fail to create a coherent worldview for their students, making it difficult for many to integrate their academic knowledge with their lives. Veritas steps into this void, creating a space where people of all religious and cultural backgrounds are welcomed to explore ideas. Veritas encourages students to pursue Truth, connect their academic and vocational life to Christ, and emerge with clarity and hopeful vision for our world.”