First of all, I want to thank you for reading my blog! My prayer is that it will be useful for you as far as understanding what God is doing in and through me at House of Prayer, but more importantly, I hope that this blog encourages you and uplifts you in your walk with God. I will be pretty transparent with what God is doing in my heart and my hope in that is that God will be speaking to you through what I'm learning and doing! So thank you so much for reading. If you want to, please subscribe to the blog as I will be updating it (hopefully weekly) starting this week!
So I figure for the first blog post just to give everyone an update on what I am doing in life right now! I am primarily working 20 hours/week with the House of Prayer Edmonton (an organization here in Edmonton committed to seeing night and day prayer established in the city as well as discipling and raising up believers here who will be faithful intercessors in their own churches). My job with them is an intercessory missionary (this is a fancy way of saying that I am raising my own support in order to be able to intercede (pray) for the city!) At this point, a typical week with House of Prayer consists of 10-12 hours in the prayer room (3-4 of which I am leading worship) praying for the city, 4-6 hours of fund-raising and support, and the remainder of my time I spend doing discipleship training (being discipled and (soon) discipling), working on technical aspects that have to do with the prayer room, and getting the word out about HoPE (through video work, meetings, and telling everyone I know). This is an incredible job as it really has set me on fire for God and what He's doing in the city. If you want to know more about HoPE check out their website or give me a call and I'd love to tell you about it. If you'd like to be a part of what God is doing at House of Prayer either financially or prayerfully, please email me and I'll get ahold of you immediately!
Along with House of Prayer, I am also working at Transcend Coffee and McKernan Baptist Church (3rd service Intern). Both of these jobs are great as they are supportive of what I'm doing in HoPE and my involvement in each is a positive benefit to the other! I encourage you to stop by sometime at Transcend Argyle (I work from 3-6) Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and I'll have you try some awesome coffee!
My internship at McKernan is the last item that I would like to tell each of you about as It's going amazing! This year, we have had huge amounts of people out each week and the way that the Holy Spirit is working has been awesome. I have an incredible team of leaders around me and they are really helping to 'lighten the load' as the service is becoming a tremendous amount of work. I invite you to come check out the third service sometime (McKernan Baptist Church Lighthouse @ 6:00 on Sunday's 11119-76 ave) as it is quite a different service and I believe that you will be blessed if you come! As well, the first Sunday of every month we are providing a free meal, so feel free to come on a communion Sunday and you can eat with our community!
Thanks for reading my blog. I look forward to hearing from you if you have any questions or want to get together for coffee.. as busy as my schedule sounds, I would easily be able to find time to meet with you!
Thanks and blessings,
Daunavan Buyer
