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18-June-1997 
GA97074 
 
                       Renewal Group Prays for Assembly 
 
                              by Jane Hines 
 
SYRACUSE--Embracing a vision of a denomination that puts its roots down 
deep and reaches out through many branches into the sky, the Presbyterian 
Renewal Ministries International gathered to pray for the 209th General 
Assembly on Tuesday, June 17, at Plymouth Congregational Church on Onandaga 
Street in Syracuse. 
 
     The group that filled the sanctuary of the church was there "with the 
expectation that the Holy Spirit is going to move in our midst."  They 
expressed a belief that the church will be renewed through prayer as 
Presbyterians are able to catch a vision from God and then move out into 
that vision around the world in the kind of renewal that doesn't simply 
fill pews and raise budgets, but "mobilizes the Church for evangelism, 
using the Six Great Ends of the Church." 
 
     A sermon told the dramatic history of how the founding fathers of the 
Presbyterian Church in Scotland forged the denomination "in the fire of 
prophecy." 
 
    Urgent prayers were offered for the work of the church and everyone 
involved in it, for those who have encountered difficult situations at the 
Assembly and for those who will go back home to troubling times.  As they 
prepared to close their service in prayer, they asked, "When did the Church 
outgrow its need for God?" 

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