A menacing bull. A startled mother with her baby. A narrow escape to a nearby house. That was the beginning of Marbelis' dream.

Once inside the house, she noticed a group of people praying and in each entrance a prayer warrior was stationed, blocking the surrounding bulls from entering.

One lady ceased praying and a bull charged in. When she began to pray again, the bull was expelled.

Marbelis is a leader in our Caribbean team's micro economic program. The goal of the program is to provide financing for the poor so they can develop small businesses to help them out of poverty.

We also hope to empower the national church to become economically self-sustaining through the tithes of these members. The program is interdenominational?20 churches from seven denominations are currently involved.

It is also evangelistic?20 community participants have accepted Christ in the past six months. Our passion is for the Alliance to be an agent of unity among churches and to gain a reputation for loving the poor outside of our pews.

Isaiah 41:17-20 presents a picture of the poor searching for water. God answers them with rivers flowing on barren heights and cedar trees growing in the desert. Why? So that people may see and know . . . that the hand of the Lord has done this . . . (v 20).

God gave this Scripture to two of our program leaders on separate occasions, reminding us that he wants to provide for the poor and transform their desolate state so that all will see his hand has done this, not ours.

We are called to vigilant prayer to remember that our plans will fail if God doesn't act. The good news is that God has indeed been building his house of prayer.

Three years ago, God planted the idea of a prayer retreat for our Alliance leadership. After years without significant growth, the desire was to unite in prayer to seek a new strategy for evangelism and church planting.

God also revealed The Divine Prayer Clock, teaching the biblical basis for uniting God's people in a 24-7 movement of prayer. The impact of that prayer retreat and this teaching has been far beyond our expectations.

Conferences on the Divine Prayer Clock have been held across the country. Over 1,000 leaders from 40 denominations have received the training.

Many of them have also attended bi-annual prayer retreats that could best be described as three days of revival meetings. At the last retreat, there were 280 leaders representing both conservative and charismatic traditions.

This is the house of prayer that God is building in the Caribbean, and the success of our micro economic program is directly linked to it. Weekly meetings of prayer and fasting are held in several of our micro cooperatives.

We also hope to create a prayer network between all of our cooperatives to ensure that there is always someone praying for the program, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

God is on the move. Revival is on its way. Join the team? we welcome your prayers!