The Global Day of Prayer & The Continuing Race for 2010!

Greetings to the family and friends of the Race Track Chaplaincy of America.

Last year on May 8th we had an incredible time of unity as we prayed together and fasted together for a 24 hour period. We came together as one body of those who serve the horse racing community and shared in times of prayer walks in the backstretches and front sides of the race tracks, in the training centers and in farms and barns across the globe. We read devotions and brought the prayer needs and requests up to our councils circulated them on emails and posted them on our web site. We signed up for prayer times on a 24 hour clock. And beginning at Midnight we began to pray together as the home office called chaplains and councils beginning in New Zealand and working around the world to Australia and Kenya and Puerto Rico and Canada, the USA, Argentina and Chile.

It was incredible, and awesome and inspiring!

This year we are declaring May 6, 2008 as our RTCA Global Day of Prayer.

It is our prayer and hope and anticipation for another Global Day of unity and fasting and reflecting and praying as a corporate body of believers. Bringing the prayer needs and requests from our family for all of us to pray over them.

Since last year we have seen tremendous growth in the RTCA ministry both in the USA and Canada and around the world.

But we see Kenya has plunged into a violent civil war and we need to lift up our Chaplain John Kaoto who lives in Nairobi.

There is strife and economic pressures everywhere and we need to pray for peace in the world.

Dr. Torres will be giving us a devotion on prayer inspired from the places in the Holy Land he just finished visiting.

We will have global devotions on prayer that will be posted on our web site throughout the year. Written by our chaplains and councils in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Ireland, England and hopefully- Kenya.

Keep praying for the continuing Race for 2010. The original RTCA Evangelism Vision 2010 plan is already out of the starting gate and hundreds came to the Lord and hundreds completed discipleship courses under the ALPHA program in 2007. Adding their numbers to the thousands that accept the Lord each year due to the work of our Chaplains and councils on the front lines of the tracks and farms.

Over 10,000 have accepted the Lord as their Savior over the last 4 years!

Pray for the upcoming Festivals and ALPHA programs that are scheduled for Feb 19 at the Sam Houston Track under Chaplain Daniel Corte, Jr. and on the 20th of Feb at the Fairgrounds Race Track in New Orleans under Chaplain Waverly Parsons.

Pray also for Pat Day and Kevin Thornton who will be bringing messages in word and song and sharing the word and their testimonies, pray for Chaplain Ted Carreras from Hollywood Park who will translate the message. Pray for the council members and volunteers who will be setting up all these events and pray for the Christian musicians who will add their songs to the festivals.

Pray that our denominational partners will join in as we grow these festivals and discipleship programs and take them to all parts of the USA and to the ends of the earth!

So, join the RTCA at our national conference in March in Seattle as we report on the ministry and come together to fellowship and pray together. Join us on May 6 as we will come together to pray in unity globally. Join us everyday and throughout 2008 as we have declared it the year of Prayer!

May you be blessed by God-

Edward Smith