MRT Introduction: New Mexico

Dear Fellow Mad Scientists,

Here are a few things I notice in the New Mexico MRT Introduction (below)...

*A MRT doesn't have to be face to face. You can do it by phone with someone in a whole different part of the state.

*A MRT is hugely adaptable. It can focus on a giant city like Mexico City or on lots of smaller towns like Clovis and Farmington and Ruidoso.

*A MRT allows women to take as much leadership as men. (I'm praying for a huge increase in apostolic women in the US!)

Read Peg Batcheller's report and tell us what else you notice.

John



Update from New Mexico and SE Colorado.

Miller Talbot and I (Peg Batcheller) have known each other a few years, having met by "divine appointment" at a H2H conference when it was held in Denver. Miller moved to Northeast New Mexico a year or so ago, and we've since then connected and kept in touch. Miller was familiar with Kent's original MRT, and as it developed into this "experiment" we jointly decided this would be a good opportunity for us to pray for our state and our regions here in New Mexico, as well as SE Colorado. So since January we have been praying together by phone on a weekly basis and email throughout the week. Miller lives in Eagle Nest, a small town/community in NE New Mexico. I live Albuquerque, the largest city in NM.

Over the past few years our house churches in Albuquerque have begun to come together for monthly joint gatherings to worship and eat together, and our connections continue to grow. This past year a few of us here in ABQ have been gathering for city-wide prayer, and we have just started inviting a few others to partner with us. My friend Jeff Leslie meets every week with a few men to pray for the city, and to begin training more HC leaders. It seems to me that God is forming a more strategic group of men and women to move out of our individual HCs, and have more of a heart to join together to reach our communities,... more of a 'missional' heart. I sense this next year will be a very building time within our community of HCs.

I also connect with other men and women throughout the state of NM, and see God working in our hearts for more connections and continuity. Some of those cities are Santa Fe, Moriarty, Edgewood, Madrid, Capitan, Ruidoso, Farmington, Clovis, and others. My prayer is that each community will have men and women as prayer warriors and vibrant families of peace to reach into their city/town.

For me personally, I am also involved in the immigrant Hispanic part of ABQ. Because of recent political and family crises in those neighborhoods, the door is now open for me to meet personally in prayer with a small group of Hispanic women and families to pray and encourage them through their crises. I look forward to this opportunity to minister, encourage, and prayerfully to initiate CO2s with them as we offer comfort and support.

Miller is praying for men and women of peace in the towns of Eagle Nest and Cimmaron in NE New Mexico. He and his wife meet with others in a house church, and will be praying more specifically with another couple there. He is laying a groundwork in that area, and is looking to the Lord to connect him with others for the area.

Richard Hijar is a friend of mine in Pueblo, Colorado, who has a passion to reach the SE area of Colorado, to all the little towns in that area. His passion is that the men and women in that area will know the love of the Father, and to know their place and acceptance as sons. He has a great Fathering heart, and cries out for the people in that region. We pray often that God will send laborers, and men and women of peace to receive God's message. We look forward to having him connect with Miller also in the days ahead.