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Recently, we were at a crossroad regarding our life and ministry here in Pennsylvania . My job of nine years, abruptly came to an end. After 10 years of leading a small group of Believers, we were ready to pack up and return to the Midwest, having seen very little growth after more than a decade of labor.
However, the Lord sent prophetic words through some dear Believers from Israel, western Pennsylvania, and a local church family in Mechanicsburg, who had no idea what was going on in our hearts. Let's just say that God made it clear that we were to STAY because HE is moving behind the scenes.
Now we are in the midst of another season of transition. As part of our response in submitting to the Word of the Lord, we have spent some time in personal prayer and consecration. From these prayer times, God is speaking to us and taking us back to simply serving people. He reminded us of some areas where we established a foundation, but we had no idea that God was actually building on those foundations all along.
One of the foundations we are bringing back to the forefront is the Fruitful Life Network of Ministries. At the same time that we completed the paperwork and incorporated Urban Life Church, Inc, we also established the Fruitful Life Network, Inc. For all of these years, The Network has been the background entity responsible for all of our books, videos, internet, social media, and speaking engagements.
On the Urban Life side of the ministry, we have launched an all-out prayer campaign that we call the Family Prayer Room. Every week we gather for fellowship, connection, encouragement, and worship. On some weeks, we go online to pray for, exhort, and challenge the Body of Christ in these perilous times. While we stand before a video camera and share with our online audience, the Urban Life Prayer Team is sitting right there in our internet studio, interceding for us. Our last two prayer sessions have already produced several week's worth of Facebook, Twitter and Google+ postings that will help carry our social media outreach through the rest of the Spring and Summer.
While God leads us in this Urban Life global prayer campaign, HE is also showing us the many areas of service that HE has given us through the Network which includes the books and songs HE gave us to help families. It includes serving couples through the Marriage and Family Enrichment and Resiliency ministry called the PACT. It includes a family and social issues webpage that houses videos and a BLOG called One Concerned Father. It includes three online video channels called Fight 4 Your Family, Unlocking the Dream Within and 100 Nuggets of Wisdom.
Through the Fruitful Life Network we have fully accepted and embraced the opportunity to serve in the Pennsylvania Apostolic Prayer Network, where we are intercessory prayer leaders over Dauphin County in Pennsylvania. This is the county in which the city of Harrisburg resides.
We have also joined in partnership with Abby Abildness (Healing Tree International). We have agreed to serve them in their web and social media outreach. As you recall, last year, we teamed up with Healing Tree and several other ministries in this region for a special prayer conference called Unite to Restore America. We're also serving in a new prayer movement called Unite to Restore Africa.
The Network also includes connections with several ministries all over the world, and all we know is that we consider them all partners and friends to this ministry. We're not trying to force a spiritual movement, "make things happen", or call them to rally with us on any projects. We're just acknowledging that God is doing great things between us and among us.
And finally, the Network includes the speaking engagements and soon-coming opportunities to serve in overseas missions and travel ministry. It is in this particular aspect of the ministry that we are requesting your prayers and humbly asking you to consider sowing financially to help us. The aforementioned, Unite to Restore Africa prayer conference will be held in Nigeria in October. We have been asked to come as missionary-pastors to minister. Therefore, for the first time, we are asking our many friends from across the United States, to help us go to Nigeria and serve the Body of Christ in that nation. We already have a Missions Fund specfically designated for this purpose and you can give directly into it by clicking HERE.
We share all of this with you because we are very excited as God's plan continues to unfold for us. We came here to SERVE and God is positioning us to become better servants to families here, across the country, and other parts of the world. The Fruitful Life Network is our simple way to build, equip, and launch hearts and homes into God's purpose and plan. Now, more than ever, we identify with Jesus. We didn't come to be served. We came to wash feet.
All this week, we are meeting key people and even making reconnections with others. Something special is happening and we just want you guys to know that your prayers for us have been quite fruitful. In fact, they've been so fruitful that God has brought forth and revived the Fruitful Life Network of Ministries, that is quickly becoming a global network of service to families around the world.
It's all for the harvest,
Chris and Carol Green
