Africa Day of Prayer 2004 Aims to transform the Continent

The 4th Annual Day of Prayer for Africa is now under preparation. On May 2 2004, all 58 nations and islands linked to the continent of Africa will meet for prayer, as Mr Benny Mostert, director of the South African prayer movement of NUPSA reported.

With still 40 days to go, already over 950 venues or stadiums have been registered, with 250 of them being in South Africa, not counting the 13 nations where people will just meet in house groups, churches and other venues.

Africa is known to be a spiritually and physically poor country. "The unemployment, poverty, crime, prostitution, Aids, corruption, and general decay of our cities and societies have left many people extremely despondent," representative Graham Power describes the situation in Africa.

Faith without action is dead, not only the prayer day can unite all the Christians in Africa, but it also expresses their determination to transform Africa by the power of God.

Actually, in the last three years the battle is shown to be victorious. The prayer day was first started dramatically by a business man in Cape Town, South Africa who was inspired to call all the pastors and people to repent and pray in the city's Newlands Rugby Stadium after watching a gospel video.

On 21 March 2001, some 45,000 people came to the stadium for four hours of prayer and worship. Since then, amongst other things, the crime in the city has dropped by more than 45% miraculously.

In 2002 it started to spread throughout the country, 160,000 people joined the prayer day. In 2003, some 700,000 people were praying in the stadiums with another 5 million linked through radio and television.

Mostert now calls for support, "A 10-minute prayer is available that will be prayed all over Africa at 15:00, GMT+2. This prayer can be e-mailed to interested people. It is available on www.transformationafrica.com in 13 languages used in Africa."

"We have confirmation from groups in the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Belgium, Sweden and other places that they will join us in prayer for Africa. All this is helping to prepare the way for the Global Day of Prayer on 15 May 2005, Pentecost Sunday.