Stirred Up to Reach out

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community engagement through prayer

Kaye haynes shares how prayer has connected her congregation and how they hope it will impact their communitiy.

Kaye is a member of Donway Baptist Church in Toronto and live magazine promoter in that community. “HOW IS PRAYER GOING AT DONWAY?” When I was asked that question I had to stop and reflect on our beginnings, where we are now, and where we hope to go. I realized that we are actually on a journey of praye!

Praying loaves and fishes It began with six members of the church family who felt a desperate need to pray.

It was 2018. We were between pastors. Jim Knight from our church family had stepped up as interim pastor as we searched for a new pastor. At the same time, our mission project to bring over a Rwandan family and reunite them with their husband and dad, who worshipped with us, had stalled. We felt we needed God’s leadership and help in both of these situations.

So this little group began: Jim who is now our pastor; that Rwandan father; a new Christian; a 90 year-old; a person with many health issues who needed prayer—and me. Sometimes we had visitors for a spell but what made all the difference was that the Holy Spirit was very much there with us each week.

The first time we gathered we had a small list of prayer items on paper. This was just to aid us in beginning to pray. It seemed to work . . . so we