Thank you for your support of the 2025 Orange County Prayer Breakfast! We are a vibrant and diverse community.  And those of us who call on the name of Jesus are perhaps the largest affinity group in our community, with a tremendous opportunity and responsibility to “seek the welfare of our community” together. However, we often allow things to separate us like politics, theology, culture and race.  

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Events like this prayer breakfast are opportunities to connect with one another, pray together, and to remember “that which we have in common, our love for Jesus, is much greater than those things that divide us.”  And it is also an opportunity to be a visible testimony to our community that the church, the ecclesia, can come together!

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Jesus prayed in John 17 that “Father, I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me.”

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When we come together as the “extended family of faith,” to pray, and to collaborate for the advancement of the Gospel and the welfare of our community, we are the greatest force for good in our community! (Proverbs 29:2,  Jeremiah 29:7, 1 Timothy 2:1-2, Titus 3:1-2, Galatians 6:10, 1 Thessalonians 5:15)

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Blackaby reminds us that we are “to find God where He is at work, and join Him.”  This prayer breakfast reminded us that God is actively working around us all the time.  So, we asked Him to open our eyes to see what He is doing, and to open our ears to hear what He is saying so we could join Him.  And one area where He is clearly working is among Gen Z.  So perhaps the most moving part of the prayer breakfast was when Gen Z young adults were highlighted.  This generation of young adults were encouraged and strengthened as their calling was acknowledged and blessed, and the other generations ahead of them were filled with great hope for the future, seeing what God was doing among Gen Z.  

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And Dennis Pethers reminded us that we need to be sensitive to what God is doing in our day so we can join Him in what He is doing now.  Just like they discovered on the Choluteca bridge, “the bridge to nowhere,” in Honduras, if a river moves, all our human efforts can be fruitless.  When the river moves, we need to move with it.  So, let us ask God to show us how we can join Him in what He is doing today, and this next year, and especially among Gen Z!