Gather Hermiston

03/01/2025

It's not too late to join! See you there!

03/01/2025

Gather Hermiston! God is here!

02/28/2025

It's not too late! Join us tonight at 6 pm at New Hope for a one of a kind Global Livestream event.

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02/28/2025

Day 21: Finish strong

2 Timothy 4:1-7

I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

Reflection

As we draw to the end of this reading plan and think ahead to Gather25, it is our prayer that we, the body of Christ, respond to the charge of Paul, who had been on an incredible journey throughout the book of Acts, but now as he draws near to the end of his time here on earth he writes to the younger Timothy.

This is truly a beautiful piece of writing. is charge to his disciple is 'keep your head, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and discharge all the duties of your ministry.’ Our heart at Gather 25 is that what we do to gather the global Church, and how we serve, helps you discharge all the duties of your personal ministry.

Prayer

Lord, would you help us to pour ourselves out for the sake of your gospel. Our world needs you like never before, please come, and heal our lands, have your way in us and may your kingdom come.

02/27/2025

25 hours of the Global Church gathered in 2025. Gather25 is an unprecedented, and free, 25-hour global broadcast event telling the story and mission of the global Church, by the global Church. This will be an opportunity for the 2.5 billion believers across the world to gather in prayer, worship, and repentance, so that we can go out powerfully and collaboratively to reach the world.

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02/27/2025

Day 20: Make Jesus the vision

Acts 28:30-31

He lived there two whole years at his own expense, and welcomed all who came to him, proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hindrance.

Reflection

Luke’s final observation of Paul was that he “taught about the Lord Jesus Christ – with all boldness and without hindrance.” Paul never lost sight of Jesus; his Christ-centered message was proclaimed wherever he went. He spoke the name of Jesus, believing in the power of the name and being a man who was not ashamed of the gospel. Paul was undoubtedly a prayerful man who had a real and living encounter with Jesus. Jesus prayed and sacrificed His life, the early church prayed and lived sacrificially, and Paul prayed and sacrificed himself for the sake of the gospel. Our journey with Gather is that we have encountered a living and real relationship with Jesus Christ, this has been the driver behind this plan, but it is also our motivation for the future. The vision is Jesus

Prayer

We think of another saint as we pray, Saint Patrick, whose prayer we make our own today as we think of Jesus:

I pray today that I would experience; Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on my right, Christ on my left, Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit down, Christ when I arise, Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me, Christ in every eye that sees me, Christ in every ear that hears me.

02/26/2025

Day 19: Serve Relentlessly

Acts 20:17-24

Now from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church to come to him. And when they came to him, he said to them: “You yourselves know how I lived among you the whole time from the first day that I set foot in Asia, serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jews; how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house, testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained by the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there, except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me. But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

Reflection

We are struck by the relentlessness of Paul, how this great apostle kept going. The word we associate with Paul is servant, he served the Church, and he served his Savior. He was a beautiful servant of the gospel. His life’s mission was to testify to the good news of God’s grace.

As we think about gathering together as His Church, we want to testify to the good news of God’s grace and to proclaim his mercy, love and kindness to this broken world. We know that this message will only truly be proclaimed by servants.

Prayer

We commit to serve you today, Lord, to testify to the good news of your grace today. Father, we thank you that you have been gracious towards us. We want to serve you by inviting others to hear your message of grace this year, as we gather.

02/26/2025

02/25/2025

Experience the story of the global Church, told by the global Church.

Friday, February 28 at 6 PM believers from all over the greater Hermiston area will join with the Global Church to connect together for prayer, worship, repentance and commissioning. There will be stories told of what God is doing on each continent. There will be powerful times of worship. And there will be a worldwide “sending out” of the workers to the harvest.

Gather25 is for every man, woman, and child on Earth who follows Jesus. Every Christian, from every denomination, from every continent, and every generation, is invited to be a part of Gather25. Are you in?

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02/25/2025

Day 18: Worship truly

Acts 17:22-23

So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.

Reflection

Paul speaks to the people of Athens about their altar dedicated to “the unknown God.” He saw a world filled with idols and false gods but used that moment to introduce them to the one true God. Like Athens, our world today is full of people worshiping “unknown gods” and following things that cannot satisfy. Paul boldly proclaimed Jesus to a culture searching for meaning, and we’re called to do the same—sharing the truth of who God is with those who don’t yet know Him.

Prayer

Today we pray for those who don’t know you, yet who have some form of spiritual awareness. Lord, we pray that they would see you through Jesus. Help people to realize that the many altars and idols they are bowing down to are false. May people come to worship you today, the one true God.

02/24/2025

Day 17: Be unshaken in praise

Acts 16:25-31

About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them, and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were unfastened. When the jailer woke and saw that the prison doors were open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. But Paul cried with a loud voice,

“Do not harm yourself, for we are all here.” And the jailer called for lights and rushed in, and trembling with fear he fell down before Paul and Silas. Then he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Reflection

We find it amazing that as the church grew and continued to experience opposition that Paul and Silas sang hymns to God even while they were in chains. It would seem to us that the growth and mission of the church was marked by joy, that the men and women of the early church regularly praised God and sang hymns and worshiped Him.

We see that as people worshiped, things changed.

Our heart is that as we Gather not only to pray, not only to repent, not only to be commissioned, but also to worship God that things WILL change.

Prayer

We worship you today God, we give you thanks. Although our circumstances may be difficult, we lift our eyes and look to you. You deserve all our praise and worship today. We praise you for all you have done and for all you are.

02/23/2025

Day 16: Turn to Jesus

Acts 12:5-10

So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church. Now when Herod was about to bring him out, on that very night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison.

And behold, an angel of the Lord stood next to him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his hands. And the angel said to him, “Dress yourself and put on your sandals.” And he did so. And he said to him, “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me.” And he went out and followed him. He did not know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision. When they had passed the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate leading into the city. It opened for them of its own accord, and they went out and went along one street, and immediately the angel left him.

Reflection

We see today that a praying church saw a miraculous breakthrough. Peter was in prison, but the church was “earnestly praying to God for him” and as the church prayed earnestly to God for him, he was set free. We learn from this that when the church gathers and prays that we will see miracles. Our prayer at Gather25 is that prisoners will be set free, that people will have divine visitations and lives will be transformed through an earnestly praying church.

Prayer

Lord, today we pray for those we know who need your freedom. Come and set the captives free. For those who are bound by illness, by oppression, by sin, by addiction; we pray earnestly for their freedom today.