Prayer Focus: The Unchurched

THIS WEEK’S PRAYER FOCUS: “As of 2014, the estimated number of people in the U.S. who Barna Group would define as ‘churchless — meaning they have not attended a Christian church service, other than a special event such as a wedding or a funeral, at any time during the past six months — stands at 114 million,” Barna reports. “Add to that the roughly 42 million children and teenagers who are unchurched and you have 156 million U.S. residents who are not engaged with a Christian church. To put that in context, if all those unchurched people were a separate nation, it would be the eighth most populous country in the world, trailing only China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the remaining churched public of the United States (159 million).” Our church currently supports several mission churches, including SonLife Church in Jacksonville, Trinity Church in Norman, OK and Renew Church in Ft. Myers. Please be in prayer for “the mission field in our own backyard,” as these churches strive, against great odds, through intentional, culturally relevant, biblically sound ways to reach the lost.