There are three main prayer seasons associated with the summer project: prayer before LAUP, during LAUP, and after LAUP.
Before LAUP (May through June 18th): Pray for housing assignments to come through, wisdom in assembling curriculum, and for students as they fund-raise and prepare for their summers. In particular pray that students would come into LAUP with soft hearts that are teachable and ready to grow.
During LAUP (June 19 through July 30): The best way to focus your prayer is to follow our teaching schedule, listed below. Additionally pray for God's work through our technology fast: a six-week abstention from lap tops, internet, cell phones, ipods, t.v., and anything with headphones. This is a big part of making space for God, but in today's world it's like pulling teeth. Below is our teaching schedule to focus your prayers each week of LAUP:
June 19 to June 23--Orientation week: each day covers a different LAUP focus
June 30--Structures of Power and Spiritual Warfare
July 7--God's Heart for the Poor and Our Repentance
July 14--Crossing Cultures and Incarnational Ministry
July 21--Compassion and Servanthood
July 28--Wrap Up of the Summer/Alumni Mentoring Night
After LAUP (July 31, and on): In many ways this is the most important part of LAUP. Pray that students will turn their summer experience into principles they can carry with them back to campus and into life after college. Pray they will make good choices about how to protect the values of the summer, and for creativity in implementing their deepest experiences of the summer into their normal lives.
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