We have started a new tradition in my family. I do not know how long you have to do something for it to become a tradition. So far we have been doing it for 2 weeks. LOL. I believe it will continue for some while, and we have been having a good time with it. We call it missionary Monday. I went out and bought a world map. We placed that into the small office shared with my wife, 11 year old daughter and 4 year old Beagle. Then I set my DVR to tape Saturday night “Travel the Road” on TBN. We then watch the show Monday evening. While we watch it one of us writes every city and country the missionaries visist. After we watch the show each one of us says a prayer for the people we saw in that episode.

When my daughter gets home from school on Tuesday, she has to find the city/country on the map and place a little map pin there. Try it with your kids or even by yourself or some friends. We eat pop corn and other snacks while watching it. It is becoming a nice devotional/study during the week. It is a good family builder, and it teaches our kids significant lessons. One is that we need to reach out to the lost. They learn that our world and the challenges we face are different than a Christian in the Sudan.

Here is a link to Amazon, if you want to check out Season one.  Travel The Road, Season One

I just recently read a book on the 24/7 movement. I picked it up while searching through the Christian books at my local Half Price Books. I picked it up, because in Colorado Springs I lived about two miles from New Life Church. They had a 24/7 ministry and I spent allot of time at the prayer center. In fact I was hiding in a corner most Friday nights for 2 years doing some on-line evangelism in the Word of Warcraft Game. So I had heard allot about 24/7, but didn't know allot about it. It was just a place that had a peace about it, with people praying there, and it had free wifi. LOL

So while reading the The 24-7 Prayer Manual: Anyone, Anywhere Can Learn to Pray Like Never Before I started thinking about my own prayer life. There are many times I have had these grandiose ideas about focused prayers. Then you at art a new program, or decide that you will just go ahead and turn over that new leaf. Then in 3-4 days, I am back to my quick get ur done prayers. Yes we have missionary Mondays at my house (I will post on that some time in the future), but it would be great to find one or two believers and once a week, just pray for 5-10 minutes for the whole church. Have you ever wanted to do something similar?