As the end of year approaches and Advent awaits, we have so much to praise the Lord for. Nineteen more churches hosted a Wall Shakers Workshop in 2024. The District 16 Charge Conference had a mini workshop for their churches, thanks to Rev. Frank Oakman. Forty-five people from twenty-two churches participated in the 2nd annual Wall Shakers Prayer Retreat in Clayton, Oklahoma. God is on the move.  

If you are interested in a daily prayer guide for Advent as a free resource to share with your congregation, please find "Keeping Christ in Christmas", a shareable PDF document, as an end of year gift from the MidTexas Prayer Ministry team.

Let's make 2025 our most prayerful year yet. If you're interested in hosting a Wall Shakers Workshop at your church, reach out to Rev. Lauren Green Yates at laurengreenyates@midtexasgmc.org. 

Prayer is essential to the DNA of the Mid-Texas Conference of the Global Methodist Church. Jesus himself said that his House must be a House of Prayer (Matthew 21:13). We don’t just want to be churches that pray. We want to be known as the “Praying Church” in our community. This means going beyond just having a prayer chain (transaction of information) into transformation, intentional, and intercessory prayer as individuals and as local churches. One of the goals of the Mid-Texas Conference is that every church has a prayer team that meets on a weekly basis. If prayer is the business of the church, we must be about our Father’s business and pray. The Wall Shakers Workshop offers training for individuals and local churches to enhance their prayer lives and the effectiveness of prayer in the local church. Inspired by Acts 4:31, churches in the Mid-Texas Conference will experience an increase of infilling from the Holy Spirit and bold evangelism through the power of wall shaking prayer.

To learn more about starting a hosting a Wall Shakers Prayer Workshop or attending the annual autumn Wall Shakers Prayer Retreat, contact Rev. Lauren Green Yates, Director of Prayer and Congregational Care at laurengreenyates@midtexasgmc.org.