The Marcum Family/Ministry News May 2015

Dear Friends & Family,

Just recently we learned that missions leaders who have been studying the rise of 24/7 prayer over

the past 30 years have found that in 1985 there were about 25 known ministries worldwide that were

operating a 24-hr prayer ministry for their region/country/city. That number has grown now to over

10,000! In so many places, incense is rising and the Bride is crying out in unison with the Spirit,

Come, Lord Jesus! This is one of the signs that our Lord is returning soon, and His church is obediently responding to His most often repeated instruction to us regarding the time of His return Watch and Pray. Thank you for partnering with our family so we can keep the fires of night & day prayer burning bright here in the heartland of our nation! - Love, The Marcums

What a great privilege!

As most of you know for the past 9 months we have been leading a discipleship group of 12 students who are attending

International House of Prayer University. It has been such an honor and privilege to get to know these students and to be leaders in their lives. Five of our students will graduate next Saturday and go on to the next steps the Lord has for them. They are going to varous mission fields to serve: Lesley is going to Fredericksburg, VA (the D.C. area), Donovan and his

wife Natalie are going to Brazil, Joshua and his wife Sarah are deciding whether to return to New Zealand where they did their ministry externship, one of our other Joshuas (we have 3 in our group!) is heading out on tour with YWAMs Impact World Tour, and Sarah and her husband Ben are for the time being staying to serve the Missions Base here at IHOPKC, serving in the media dept, the ANPR, and in our Korean ministries. Here are a few pictures from the past school year!

WE LOVE THESE YOUNG PEOPLE!!! We look forward to seeing some of them next

year! And those who are graduating, we will miss you go and be who God called you to be!

Jim & Melissa

The Lord is Reconnecting

We were so overjoyed to reconnect recently with Steve & Janie Garrison, co-

worship leaders with us at a church in Joplin many years ago. After having

faithfully been watching the Global Prayer Room and worshiping and praying

along with us for quite some time, they were able to make their first visit to

IHOPKC. Steve has contacted me since returning to Knoxville asking for help

& resources as they are seeking the Lord about beginning a prayer room

ministry at their church!

ONE THING REGIONAL, TWIN CITIES, MN Joys report

Hi everyone! There were 50 of us that went to St. Paul, MN to serve in a week of 24/7 prayer & worship which gathered over 30 ministries from the region together in unified prayer. We paired the week of prayer with a week of

evangelism in the Twin Cities where we had outreaches every day, mostly to the poorer neighborhoods & districts. I got to lead worship in the prayer room during the week, and also led worship at a regional youth event on Wednesday. We

ended the week with a weekend OneThing Regional conference, which ended up being the largest of the Regionals. The day before the conference began, we were able to gather many church, house of prayer, and ministry leaders from not only Minnesota but from other states and served

them a luncheon. Then we led prayer & worship for them and we all had prayer over them and sang over them (thats me singing over the leaders in the picture!). There is strategizing among these leaders on how to sustain unified prayer in their regions. During the conference, we staffed a Prophetic Ministry Room and ministered to hundreds of people, bringing refreshing and encouragement from the Lord to many. Once the conference began, I got to sing & lead worship with Justin Rizzos team, and I helped teach a breakout session on prophetic worship. I love to see how God is building His house of prayer all across our nation and to see how He is stirring His bride to seek Him in the place of prayer and worship! -Joy

TOUCHING BRAZIL with SAFE FAMILIES! by Melissa I have had a lot of fun recently during some of my Safe Families work hours! Our director, Danny Lima, and his wife Jessica made a trip to Brazil last month to help train a group of musicians and prayer warriors there on starting a house of prayer in their church. Dannys heritage is Brazilian and though he has lived his life in the USA, he has a true pastors heart for the people of Brazil. He began to build his proficiency in Portuguese last year in preparation to join a large mission team

to spend 6 weeks in Brazil before and during the 2014 FIFA World Cup. This effort was known as Liberdade which translates as Freedom and it focused on the rescue of women and children trapped in human trafficking. Watch a stirring video about the Liberdade outreach at: www.exoduscry.com/liberdade/ (scroll down to video under Stories from the Field). The fun I had was that I was part of a team of ladies that took turns caring for the Lima children while their parents were gone. I stayed at their house for three days and it brought back many memories of times gone by with 5 little munchkins running around! We had a great time together, but the most fun thing we did was go to the zoo! It was our first trip there this year and I recruited some help from Jessianna, Joy and Joshua. The Limas trip to Brazil was also for Safe Families. You might remember me mentioning that we were recently able to meet with Dave Anderson, the founder of Safe Families for Children. At that meeting, he asked Danny to help develop a program for Safe Families to work in Brazil. So,

part of this most recent trip was dedicated to that purpose. There are millions of families around the world in crisis, and there are millions of churches around the world ready to help those families. We want to be a part of helping and facilitating the joining of those two realities! Pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run swiftly and be glorified (2 Thess. 3:1).

FINAL WORD: Those looking for part 2 of the article from last month, sorry we ran out of room this time! Hope to print it in next months newsletter. Thanks again everyone for staying in touch and for your partnership, it means so much! We would appreciate prayers as we will be leaving for a 2-week trip to Indiana, Kentucky, and the Carolinas, on May 20-June 4. Until next time, bless you all, were praying for you!

Because He is worthy of it all,

Jim & Melissa Marcum & family

Jim & Melissa Marcum P.O. Box 1099, Grandview, MO 64030 Phone/text: 816-287-3525 / 816-287-2228 Email/PayPal: intercessorymissions@gmail.com

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