Wake- up Call in Chico, CA~ Inger J. Logelin. Does it matter if we pray? Do our prayers have a measurable effect? Intercessors in the city of Chico, California in the U. CONTENTS &:: u f-’. Allows the Attendant to set a time for a Wake-up call to a particular extension. MSG REG (MESSAGE REGISTRATION) Allows the. S. Playboy Magazine ranked Chico State as the “#1 party school in the nation” in 1. Out- of- control, drunken revelries began with the city’s historic festival, Pioneer Days, and escalated in Halloween celebrations. Rampaging crowds and escalating violence characterized these events.“One of the main roadblocks was an attitude of apathy on the part of the population of Chico,” said Larry Lane, pastor of the Neighborhood Church in Chico, in 2. It really wasn’t until the Transformations I video that we asked ourselves, . Regional prayer summits had been meeting since 1. About nine months after George Otis, Jr. Pastors and business leaders prayed for and cultivated friendships with people of influence in the city. As Halloween 2. 00. Intercessors prayed for an end to the party spirit at seven sites. Ten intercessors prayed through the night at the police headquarters, and Pastor Lane prayed over the police at the staging area before they went out. God answered prayer. Only 5,0. 00 came out to party instead of the 2. Crime was remarkably down. A palpable peace had descended on Chico. A unified, concerted prayer effort continued around events and holidays until 2. There were prayer walks, police scanner monitoring, and regular prayer times. But, eventually, with Halloween not such a problem, many felt the job was done, and the prayer pressure lessened. While faithful individuals still prayed, the unified, organized effort had stopped. Donna Shary is one of those faithful prayer warriors for the police and city. She attends most of the city council meetings, has a great relationship with the police, takes part in the Ride Along Program, praying on site, monitors the police scanner, and prays for incidents as they come up. When she attended a Chico city council meeting in September 2. Statistics showed crime began to climb when intercessors slacked off in praying because they assumed everything was “under control.”. Violent crimes in Chico in all categories had almost doubled since 1. Projected violent crime numbers for 2. In effect, there was an approximately 2. Derek Hastings, a Chico prayer mobilizer, says, “The moment we got complacent! The enemy steps back in and crime takes off.”He adds, “Since we found this out we are in the process of addressing this issue, to get prayer going again on an organized basis. In a way that is not cyclical. In other words, we don’t want this to happen again. We don’t want to be in a Pray & Repent cycle.” Intercessors in Chico are now asking the Lord how they can bring crime statistics down far below that 2. Hastings says his prayer group from the Neighborhood Church “will begin the renewal of our prayer efforts with repentance for having dropped the ball.” The vision is to bring together prayer teams from various “congregations, tribes and generations” to pray over the city.
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