Floodgate Cross Sunday

On September 29 the ADNE Floodgate Cross, which has traveled the length and breath of our diocese, joins us for a special prayer-themed Sunday.

While this is a meaningful way to participate in a diocesan initiative, we see this as having greater spiritual significance. At the beginning of the year, Bishop Andrew reflected, "the vision for the Floodgate Pilgrimage came during the forty-hour prayer and fasting time led by Rev. Eliud Mwangi, his wife, Leah, and Fr. Len Cowan at the Abbey of the Way. As we were praying we found the phrase, “Lord, open the floodgates” in our prayers. I was intrigued by this. The opening of a single flood gate has the capacity to cause a colossal effect notwithstanding the relatively modest nature of the aperture. It struck me that the forty-hour prayer and fasting event was such a floodgate. A relatively modest prayer gateway through which the Lord was doing more than we could possibly foresee or imagine. My prayerful conviction is that Jesus is exhorting us to open the floodgates of prayer across the Northeast; to see the spiritual climate radically changed in the outpouring of His Holy Spirit. This is the invitation that I believe Jesus has set before us.”

That's why we are excited to participate: often in the church (particularly in Maine) we get acclimated to the rate of God's movements: once in a while someone comes to faith, once in a while we witness the Spirit's activity. The invitation is to press in in prayer - for the spiritual powers and principalities to be pushed back, the floodgates of prayer to open, and the outpouring of the Spirit in our region to be witnessed.