This is an article from the January-February 1990 issue: I Will Do a New Thing!

Tune in to World Prayer 2000

A New Radio Ministry

Tune in to World Prayer 2000

After 33 years as president of World Literature Crusade, Jack McAlister has retired-or has he? Motivated by the Scriptureâs teaching that praise results in world evangelization (Ps. 67:5,7-"Let all the peoples praise Thee...that all the ends of the earth shall fear Him") Jack now conducts Worship Seminars for key leaders around the world.

And now, captivated by the mandate of Jesus, "Disciple all nations!" Jack has begun yet another endeavor. World Prayer 2000. Through this radio ministry, he is encouraging believers to pray for world evangelization to be completed by the year 2000.

MF: Tell us more about this new broadcast, and what you would like to see our readers doing.

JM: World Prayer 2000 is based on the conviction that we must return to Jesusâ words which give the solution to the two main problems that have faced the church: plentiful harvest and few laborers: "Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest" (Mt. 9:3738).

This is the first and main solution ö not planning or preaching, not strategy or mobilization, not projections or flow-charts. obese are good but secondary. The main solution is PRAYER!

You know, Jesus rarely told people what to pray for. He stressed the importance of prayer, the 5equency and privacy of it. But in this passage, He tells us exactly WHAT to pray for: to send out workers. If any field has any shortage of workers it is not the Lordâs fault ö Christians havenât prayed!

MF: We do need more prayer.

Jack: It is not a "little more prayer" we need. A little more prayer brings a little more harvest! A vast Amazon of prayer is needed, to wash down to an ocean of harvest.

Frank Laubach used to say: "If enough people pray enough, anything is possible!" Up to now not enough people have prayed enough. Therefore the world is not harvested. MF: How do you plan to get enough people to pray enough?

JM: This is done best and most economically by radio. World Prayer 2000 began in January, heard each week on KFSG-FM 96.3 in Los Angeles (Saturday, 10:30 am), and KFAX-AM 1100 in San Francisco (Saturday, 8 am). These two stations cover 90% of California. Eventually we hope to be carried on 200 stations across the country.

MF: This is not free, is it2

JM: No, indeed. We will be asking our listeners to help support it. But-we will have a firm policy never to accept more than $10 a month from any one giver. We are on the air to mobilize praying time, not money!

World Prayer 2000 aims to mobilize millions of hours of prayer; we now have over a million hours committed and are praying for millions more.

MF: "Hours of prayer?" That sounds like a rigorous demand.

JM: To finish the task of world evangelization, God will use humble people who will pray every day. Our challenge is to commit to pray on one of three levels:

  1. To tithe their time-that is, 2 1/2 hours in prayer daily for World Evangelization.
  2. To give one hour a day in prayer. Our Lord asked: "Could you not keep watch for one hour?"
  3. To give 15 minutes each day as part of a 24-hour a day prayer chain. Please let us know your chosen time.

MF: Will 15 minutes a day help?

JM: Napoleon said, "Every battle in history was won or lost in a 15 minute period." This may be true about everyone making a decision for Christ.

MF: Any last words, Jack?

JM: We will send you a new World Map with 1,000 pieces of information for prayer about each country, plus a Global Prayer Digest! We have posters and bulletin inserts for churches.

Tell fiends in California to listen to our program. Notify us of any Christian radio stations willing to carry a 30-minute prayer mobilization broadcast on Saturday. Our address is:

World Prayer 2000
P.O. Box 922020
Sylmar, CA 91392

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