Volunteer Opportunities

Are you a Christian from outside the area of the PrayerPaddle?
The recommended time commitment is at least one week.

Are you a Christian living in the general area of the Prayer Paddle?
Flexible time commitments as short as a couple of hours are possible.

What you can do:
Prayer
· You can pray “on-site with insight” for revival.
· You can pray beforehand or at home for success of the PrayerPaddle.

Service
· You can assist with setting up, taking down, food preparation, and/or transportation for prayer and evangelistic meetings.
· You can assist with publicity: contacting churches, radio stations, newspapers; making flyers for posting.
· You can make sure that camping and food logistics of kayakers are taken care of.
· You can help with transport of volunteers who are arriving by air, rail, or bus.

Outreach
· You can share your testimony with unbelievers and with fellow Christians along the route of the PrayerPaddle.
· You can lead short devotions, preach evangelistic messages, share messages of encouragement with believers, etc.
· You can participate in dramatic witness through skits.
· You can distribute tracts or Bibles.

Specialized Contributions
· You can help provide music at prayer and evangelistic meetings.
· You can help with translation (both oral and written).
· You can paddle along, while praying for revival in the communities. (Requires suitable sea kayaking equipment, either your own or rented. Please discuss your capabilities and expectations.)
· You can help with uploading daily internet updates to the blog.
· You can retrieve daily weather, currents, and tide data from the internet for forecasting along the route. (We’ll tell you what information to get.)
· You can share any personal knowledge you may have of local currents, surf conditions, etc.

General
· You can encourage local believers and churches.
· You can develop relationships and explore future ministry opportunities in the region.
· You can provide hospitality for other volunteers.
· Host churches are needed for revival-oriented worship services on Sundays.
· You can donate money, food, or other supplies.

Success

I have written up a set of six questions that I think the "success" of next summer's PrayerPaddle should be measured against. Sort of a different way of articulating the goals of the ministry.

1) Were communities, churches, social institutions, households, and individuals along the coast prayed for specifically?
2) Were Christians in the region challenged and encouraged with the Great Commission to make disciples?
3) Were unbelievers challenged with the Gospel?
4) Were relationships established between locals (Christian or non-Christian) and external volunteers that can lead to future ministry partnerships and church starts?
5) Did people experience the love and unity of Christ across ethnic and denominational barriers?
6) Were new interdenominational prayer groups started in each county that the PrayerPaddle passed through?

Family Matters

One question that has come up occasionally is how my family will fit in with the PrayerPaddle. I admit that I haven't exactly figured out all the logistics yet and there's no way to know exactly how things will work out. But there are two main points that seem fairly clear.

Most of the time during the PrayerPaddle I my wife and kids will probably be in Bathurst, NB enjoying an extended visit with my wife's family. This will give them a chance to help out with the market garden, house painting, any medical problems, etc. (like we did this last summer). When I was figuring out the planned schedule, I was surprised that it worked out just right so that I will be passing through Bathurst just in time to spend Father's Day with my father-in-law.

Since I don't want to spend over a month away from my family, the hope is that they will be able to come help on-site with the PrayerPaddle a couple days each week, probably on the weekends. Hopefully that will give a reasonable balance. Of course, I also plan to stay in touch with them daily by cell phone.