A day of fasting and prayer

In our preparations for ministry, we as a team decided to spend a day in fasting and prayer, that day being today. It has been an incredibly neat experience to worship the Lord together as a team and to experience him in different ways. We have each led one hour of the day, sharing with the team what God has been teaching us, how we want to grow as a team etc. Fasting is not something I do often, but I have found that as a spiritual discipline, it can be a beautiful worship experience. We talked about and prayed over various themes today: love and obedience, humility and prayer, as well as suffering as Christ suffered for the sake of his church. We prayed individually and we prayed as a team, and at the end of the day we broke our fast over veggie omelets and dulce de leche filled croissants. It has been a wonderful day, and I believe that we have grown as a team and have progressed in our preparations for ministry. We are discussing the possibility of doing this on a monthly basis, as a manner to bring us back to the heart and vision of the ministry God has set apart for us here in Tarma.