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Friday, October 26, 2018

NEWS: Prayer Gathering Set Regarding God's Work in Allegany County


Storefront at the Hub Center at 4194 Bolivar Road, Wellsville, will be the site for a new multi-church Hope Center, an outreach, information and referral, education and reading center, to assist Allegany County residents with all types of concerns. It is expected to open in November.
"What God is Doing in Allegany County" will be the focus of a prayer, praise and worship gathering of county churches and the public Sunday night, October 28, with particular emphasis on public literacy, personal trauma and expanding efforts by Mission Genesee Valley churches for community transformation and revival throughout the area.
The session will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Knights Creek Church, 2987 Knights Creek Road (County Road 9), at Scio as part of a twice-a-month rotating series at various Allegany County locations.
The October event will include an update and prayer about the soon-to-be-opened Hope Center, a community outreach, information and referral, education and reading assistance center at 4194 Bolivar Road, across the drive from the McDonald's drive-through at Wellsville.
A key component of the project will be reading assistance for children and adults due to several thousand individuals in the county having poor literacy skills that can result in trauma, lower paying jobs, family strife, incarceration and more.  October is National Dyslexia Awareness Month.
Information also will be available on multi-location Celebrate Recovery ministries, including a recently-added group in Houghton, an initiative to improve music literacy through a county children and youth choir and orchestra, Surviving the Holidays series for those struggling with bereavement, separation or divorce, or grieving children from a variety of circumstances, and early school release time for Christian education.  All of these are efforts for churches to provide additional communities of care and outreach, individually or on a shared basis, in their neighborhoods and congregations.
Allegany County churches come together at the twice-a-month Journey to Transformation sessions for renewing of individual minds and hearts to combat issues of addiction, abuse, racism, suicide, poverty, family dysfunction and more that pastors say are growing throughout this area, the United States and world.  Prayer topics have included schools and colleges, the local economy, veterans, substance abuse, children and families and more.
In addition to Sunday night prayer gatherings, the Journey to Transformation prayer focus also includes Friday night rotating community prayer, with a growing multi-church emphasis on the renewal of minds and hearts of individuals and families for county and communities transformation through prayer for the host and other churches and Christian organizations, individuals, the community, county and more.
A third set of weekly community prayer gatherings for individual and general concerns, including family members and friends, are held weekday mornings in Scio, Wednesday mornings in Belfast and Saturday mornings in Fillmore.
Members of the public with prayer needs are welcome to attend any of these gatherings.
Further information about dates and locations and the Journey to Transformation initiative is available at www.facebook.com/TransformationJourneyUSA, or from Pastor Dan Kenyon of Wellsville Bible Church, Mission Genesee Valley chair, at wbc@ne.twcbc.com or (585) 593-6471, or most area pastors.  Individuals also may obtain periodic email notifications by forwarding their name, community and email address to bps461@msn.com with the notation "Subscribe-Mission Genesee Valley" in the subject line