ORU graduates become spiritual sponsors for current student missionaries
God has always called His people to pray. Prayer moves and empowers God’s work on the earth. Last summer, ORU alumni and students saw the power of prayer at work.
In effort to connect ORU alumni with current ORU students in tangible and practical ways, the ORU Alumni Board launched a new prayer initiative in the spring of 2014 to support students going on Summer Missions and Music to the Nations teams.
“To all of our ORU alumni, thank you so much for praying for all of our teams and all of our missionaries. We couldn’t have done it without your prayers and support. The Lord did so many amazing things.”
Bobby Parks
ORU Missions and Outreach Director
The alumni board reached out to the alumni with two simple questions: “Will you commit to pray daily for a missions team?” and “Will you commit to pray for each team member by name?” The response was amazing.
Within hours of sending an email to alumni about the initiative, dozens had signed up to become prayer partners for ORU Missions. When the dust settled and all assignments were complete, every missions team had multiple alumni prayer partners. Alumni from 40 ORU graduating classes, living across 25 U.S. states and seven countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and Central America, committed to pray and email Scripture and words of encouragement to the teams.
The alumni board again asks alumni to pray for the 2015 missions teams and hopes to have every student missionary teamed up with at least one alumni prayer partner.
If you are willing to commit to pray daily for a missions team and to pray for each student by name, please join the alumni prayer movement. For more information, visit alumni.oru.edu.
