Dear CIVA-AZ

Christian’s in Visual Arts @ ASU 2008

What is God calling you to? In order to give your life you must know what you were born for. It can be an overwhelming question, but just one life fully given to God and His purposes can CHANGE THE WORLD!

This is my purpose overall—to change the world. What is revival? What does it look like to possess the land (art college, ASU)? We have already started, laying a foundation of prayer, and now we must step out at the same time with love if we are to go with God in transforming our lives, those around us and the world!

I want you to possess this place—I want you to know that YOU are important and that you have a role in the transformation happening around you! There are many ways that God uses us, all of them unique. What are you called to?

There is a Biblical outline of the purposes of the body of Christ—the five-fold ministry, although there are many more.
The concept of the five-fold ministry comes from Ephesians 4:11, "It was he who gave some to be (1) apostles, some to be (2) prophets, some to be (3) evangelists, and some to be (4) pastors and (5) teachers." Primarily as a result of this verse, some believe God has restored, or is restoring, the offices of apostles and prophet in the church today. Ephesians 4:12-13 tells us that the purpose of the five-fold ministry is, "to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ." So, since the body of Christ definitely is not built up to unity in the faith and has not attained to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ, the thinking goes, the offices of apostle and prophet must still be in effect.

Other areas that God uses us in:
Worship
Intercession
Mercy
Healing
Disciple-making
Networking
Lover of God
Art/Creative Worship
Business management
Encouragement
Etc.

We can be many of these at the same time and God wants to help us walk more fully in all of them! Please pray and consider what God is calling you to, in this group specifically and corporately for the Body. The more we are focusing on God and walking in the gifts He has given us, the faster we will see Heaven coming to Earth!

This semester I will be graduating from ASU. I will not be leaving the campus, but I feel that the Lord is moving me into different role for the Fall. Rather than coordinating and leading the prayer-walking, I feel that I will be networking with other artists in Arizona and nationally, moving more fully into creative worship and helping to build the community among the artists at ASU, specifically undergraduates, and following God to lead other colleges into the prayer base we have started in the art collge. My vision is to see a community started in the art college at ASU that will be implemented all over the campus, to see missional communities started in pockets of unreached people groups (specifically in arts), and connect the Christian art community with one another to more effectively know our purpose and calling as Artists in this hour.

This semester I want you to get a vision (it doesn’t have to be this one), and start to ask God to reveal mysteries of His heart to you!

I love you all! You have become like a family to me, and also like my children as I have prayed for you and come to know you and the unique place you have in God’s heart!
Love,
Heidi

Please take a moment and think about what you are good at, where God has gifted you and how you would like to take ownership of CIVA-AZ.
Some of the practical things that are involved with this group:

• Networking—Calling and e-mailing people to organize prayer-walking and other events
• Administrative—Sending out updates to the group about the previous meeting, testimonies and encouragement http://civaarizona.blogspot.com , civa.az@gmail.com
• Prayer-covering—praying for the group on a daily basis (intercession)
• Encouragement—calling group members, listening, exhorting
• Leading—facilitating the prayerwalking (having a knowledge of how the prayerwalking is done practically, and being willing to decide groups, locations and focus.
• Prophetic—Discerning where the Holy Spirit is leading on the prayerwalk, asking the Lord what strongholds need prayer, and sharing with the group what they feel the Lord is saying for group and for the school at that time.
• Apostolic—Stepping out in faith where God is leading to start something new: art community, 24-hour prayer, etc.