Save Our Homes Prayer Meeting
Thursday, September 10th at 7pm, folks from Missio Dei will be attending a special Prayer Gathering at Wayman AME Church in North Minneapolis. Everyone is invited.
Join us as we gather to pray, testify, and lament in the shadow of economic crisis. As we seek faithful ways of living into Jesus’ call to Jubilee, we recognize that in the midst of action, we must center ourselves in prayer on the One who calls us out of debt into liberty.
In the first half of 2009, almost 1.9 million foreclosure filings have been reported. 3,000 homes in Minneapolis have been foreclosed with thousands more in the larger metropolitan area. If foreclosures continue at current rates, over 9 million homes will enter foreclosure by 2012. While there are some indications of an economic rebound, with unemployment rates approaching 10% and rising it is unlikely that the foreclosure rate will slow down. Join us for prayer. And in coming months, join us in action.
When: Thursday, September 10, 7:00 p.m.
Where: Wayman AME Church, 1221 7th Ave. North Minneapolis
Organized by the MN Clergy and Laity Against Foreclosures and Evictions, Wayman AME Church, the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, and the MN Coalition for a People’s Bailout
For more information on why followers of Christ should care about foreclosures, please check out the following:
Jubilee in the Midst of Foreclosure (an article written by Mark Van Steenwyk)
Church gets involved in foreclosure battle (an article about Missio Dei in the Minnesota Christian Chronicle)
