Grand awakening exists to call
west michigan to
revival and ​spiritual awakening! 

While each spiritual awakening in history has had its unique qualities, they all have had one feature in common: they all began with God's people uniting in desperate, humble, and expectant prayer. And not just ordinary prayer, but extraordinary prayer specifically for revival of the church and spiritual awakening of our culture. We long to see more and more people joining us in praying for God to revive us, the Church of West Michigan, leading to--in His sovereignty--a mighty Awakening that brings hundreds of thousands of people to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.

Having said that, we also are convinced that while prayer is absolutely essential to revival and spiritual awakening, it is not, by itself, sufficient to produce a mighty move of God. Why do we say this? For one, God is sovereign and He alone decides when revival and awakening will happen. But, beyond that, there are things we as the Church need to DO in addition to pray. God has downloaded to us what some of those things are. Look at this:

JOIN US THURSDAY, MaY 6 AT 7:00 PM
​ FOR AN EXCITING
NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER EVENT!

Special Feature at this National Day of Prayer (NDP) Gathering: Susan Sorensen, Adult and Women's Team Leader for Calvary Church, will share her her amazing personal experiences about NDP.
Susan was actually in the White House in 1988 (along with Vonette Bright and Pat Boone) when President Reagan signed the NDP law into effect! (See the picture below). She will share about some of the many miracles that took place to allow NDP to become the law of the land!
7:00 pm Thursday May 6 at
​Calvary Church, 707 East Beltline Ave NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49525
(Enter Door C on the Front side of the Building and go to the Chapel)
Other West Michigan NDP Events We are Aware of
  • 9am to 5pm: NDP Open Chapel for Prayer at Grand Rapids First Church, 2100 44th St SW, Wyoming, MI.
  • 11am to 1pm: NDP Bagged Take-Away Lunch and Prayer at Good Shepherd Church/Calvin Theological Seminary, 3233 Burton St SE, Grand Rapids, MI. (In the tent at the Seminary, near Entrance J) For more information, email Pastor Mike Baynai at revmcb@hotmail.com.
  • 12 noon to 12:30pm: NDP Prayer at Zeeland City Hall. For more info, contact Mary Okkema at maryo@eagledesign.com
  • 12 noon to 1 pm: NDP Prayer at the flagpole at Walker City Hall, organized by volunteers at the City of Walker. For more information, contact Nicole DiDonato, Communications Manager for the City of Walker at NDiDonato@walker.city
  • 6-8 pm: NDP Prayer Bike Ride or Prayer Walk, for the young or young at heart, starting at the Prayer Garage, 7813 5th St NW, Grand Rapids, MI. Come for either a 2 Mile Prayer Walk or a 4 Mile Prayer Bike Ride with four stops each route for some focused prayer.  For more info or to sign up visit http://ndpbikeandwalk.com      
We need to Turn and Pray; then Unite and Obey. The early Church didn't specifically pray for revival. Jesus prayed that the Church would have unity. (See John 17:20-23). The early Church themselves prayed for boldness and that Jesus' power and love would be manifested in our world. (See Acts 4:24-31). Just imagine the power of Christians of all denominations and ethnicities reaching out in unity and love to the needy of our world! THAT could spark a mighty move of God in our day! Friends, why not us? Why not now? 

Down memory lane (below)

The pictures and brief video below are just a small part of the West Michigan National Day of Prayer event May 2nd, 2019 as folks read Scripture in Spanish, Chinese, Korean and English and then prayed for unity of THE BODY of Christ in West Michigan. Here is the verse that should propel us to work diligently for unity:

Join the effort to bring 24/7/365 Prayer to West Michigan!!

We are working with a number of church leaders and others to do in West Michigan what has been positively transforming so many other communities in the U.S.: 24/7 prayer! Learn more by going here.

​JOIN THE WEST MICHIGAN PRAYER TEAM TO PRAY FOR REVIVAL AND SPIRITUAL AWAKENING!