Outline for the Holy Spirit Ministry Planning for Revival Program
(Please customize according to your location as needed)
- Hall Arrangements: - Any hall arrange should take into consideration a location that the police would not be called in for excessive noise. Church halls, school or normal African event centers are the ideal places to begin your search. Don’t worry about the capacity at first, just arrange the room to accommodate more people.
- Sitting Arrangements: - Remove tables and arrange chairs, modeling the church setting to accommodate more people.
- Planning Committee: - Get your first committed planning committee together and call a weekly or biweekly meeting to discuss and share assignments. Remember everyone don’t have to be on the same page initially as long as the leader is committed to make this work by exploring all options and resources within your reach. You can take in more committee volunteers at any time to increase your resources.
- Event Announcement: - As soon as the hall and dates are secured, agree with your committee the time to start and prepare a flyer to begin circulation and announcements. Confirm your date and time with brother, but make sure that you choose a time when your people (locals) usually have events for a good turn-out. And most importantly, give 1hr ahead of time as the starting time on your flyer to accommodate African time (example, you want to start 1 pm, say 12 noon on the flyer).
- Event Program: - Please see the attachment to model to know how to plan your event. (please use your time zone to plan)
- Event Flyer: Please see the attached for ideas on how and what to put in your flyer.
- Program Assignments: - Please assign tasks ahead of time to every member to know who is doing what on that day (refer to the attached retreat program for ideas). Remember you are a team and everyone should be responsible for something.
- Singing Team: - This is the most important assignment to wake up people’s spirit with good praise and worship songs. The signing team will have to practice ahead of time cos you do not want to have them run out of songs. If you have to, arrange for extra music equipment for the program. The person assigned to do the intercessory opening prayer should also prepare.
- Equipment Needed: A good microphone system that brother can use for ministration. If possible 2 hand-held microphones; one for brother and one for the music team; if not possible, one is just fine to share.
- Event Promotion: Please use the power of the word of mouth, texting, emailing and social media (facebook, etc) to let people know about your program. The more associations you and any of your members belong tell them to text or post to these forums. (Brother Uwakwe will announce your program but don’t leave the faith of attendance on him because the goal is to get new people who are not members of the prayerlinet to come and be blessed).
- Consultation: - Within your program allotted time, make room for one-on-one consultation with brother. If there is need for him to see some people earlier ( while Rosary is going on and some after the program depending on how long you paid to keep the hall), arrange that with his approval. Also find out if he is available to consult on Sundays if not enough time on Sat.
- Brother’s accommodation and mobility: - The ideal is for brother to stay in a hotel but where not possible due to expense provide him a comfortable home accommodation (with some privacy in mind). Please arrangement for a car rental for him where possible or volunteer a dedicated car as the situation warrants. (Confirm with him)
- Praying for the Event: - It is the responsible of the planning committee to keep praying for the success of this event while the whole ministry backs you up. So before that day, call a prayer meeting on the phone and if possible with fasting so you all can invite Jehovah to take over.
- Provision of the Oil to be blessed: - Please arrange with brother ahead of time to send down the olive oil that he will pray over to be used for the ministration as well as sold to participants as needed. It could be bought in your location but ask brother for the name and how or where to get them (Note if you are expecting much crowd buy at least 5 cases, confirm with him) Brother will also announce the importance of the oil
- Support: - Brother Ukwakwe has asked that I help out in this effort for any state that needs help with planning so I am providing my phone and email number for continuous support and questions. Catherine Ngozi Agada: 469-831-4693. Preferred email:
- Post Program Follow-ups: - Please have a sign in paper for everyone to capture names, phone# and email. If you have many people joining the line for consultations, give brother additional sign-in sheet so people can leave their name for follow-up prayers instead of holding up the line. Make sure everyone have the Holy Spirit Prayer line information to take home (see the Retreat Program for info, but remember to use your time zone for the prayer line flyers; yours or brothers flyer to share.
God bless you.