A Celebration of Women in Ministry

This week, thousands of miles away from the beautiful peaks of the North, an annual international conference of Pentecostals is being held in Columbus, Ohio! For many this will be a wonderful time of refreshing, fellowship, and inspiration. For those of us who cannot attend, it will be a week just like every other.

This year, during today's Ladies Day, there will be a special service entitled "Passing the Mantle" for women in ministry. This will be an amazing time in the spirit and an opportunity that many of us have been desperately praying for. Even though I cannot attend this year - I do not want to miss out.

So, I've proposed two things to the many women in ministry in the Alaska-Yukon Territory district...

1) For those who are in the Anchorage, AK area, they are welcome to meet me at my house at 6AM on Thursday morning, to watch this service live. We'll enjoy each other’s company, anointed preaching, and prayer for one another.

2) For those across our vast district who are unable to come, I’m inviting them to set aside Thursday to fast and/or pray for our women. We can join in prayer, even if it is remotely!

If you are a woman of the older generation, please pray for the younger women. We need your wisdom, anointing, experience and power. We need your words of faith to sweep over us like rivers and flood our hearts and minds. Pray for our vision, our strength, our homes, and our dedication. Please share your mantle.

If you are a woman of the younger generation, please pray for an acceptance of this mantle. We need to embrace the anointing that God has for us, see the future he's prepared, and run with courage. We need to learn to marry the power in apostolic history with the needs of today's generations. Please embrace the mantle.

As a united force, we need to pray against feelings of being overwhelmed, loneliness, depression, fear, and anxiety. We need to pray for a fresh awakening from God, a renewal of his call on our lives, a surge of energy, a confirmation of his provision for our homes, salvation for our families, and a joy like we've never known before.

The bottom line is that we need each other and we need God. I know I do. I'm assuming that I'm not alone.