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For the month of August we are taking a break from our usual schedule. Instead we invite you to be part of a challenge we hope will make an impact in your life and along the Silk Road.

You’re invited.

To go deeper.

To focus.

To join with community and journey farther with God than ever before.

This summer the Live Dead Silk Road Blog is partnering with the Dying Out Loud Community. Together we invite you to take a 28-day challenge that begins today, August 3^rd.

The phrase “Dying Out Loud” comes from the story of a missionary named Stan. He lived and worked with his wife Ann and their children along the Silk Road for several years. Then one day he received the devastating news that he had terminal cancer.

Stan decided that this last season of his life would be dedicated to God’s glory. Instead of returning to the United States he would now die among the people he hoped to reach with the gospel. Over the following months he did everything he could to share the story of God’s faithfulness in his life.

Join the Community

Maybe you’ve heard about Stan before, or maybe you haven’t. If you join with us and read the 28-day prayer journal from the Dying Out Loud Challenge, you will get to learn more about him and how he cried out for the country where he lived.

This challenge does not present a perfect blueprint for your spiritual life.

It can provide you with ideas about how to pray and connect with God in new ways.

As you read the memories and journal entries from Stan and Ann throughout the challenge, we encourage you to remember that Stan was an ordinary guy. He was a father, a husband, a friend, and a colleague. He was capable of strength and weakness, wisdom and foolishness.

James 5:17-18 reminds us “Elijah was as human as we are, and yet when he prayed earnestly that no rain would fall, none fell for three and a half years! Then, when he prayed again, the sky sent down rain and the earth began to yield its crops.”

Directly before that, James wrote, “The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.”

Stan was as human as you are. We hope that as you read the journal it inspires and encourages you to pray earnestly for the Silk Road.

Go Deeper

Over the next 28 days we will be sharing regularly from others who have taken up the challenge to read the journal and pray for the Silk Road. These are also ordinary people from many different places, with many different careers, living in many different situations.

We invite you to read their reflections, to read the journal itself, but most of all we invite you to pray for God to move along the Silk Road.

Pray like Elijah did, that God would open a spiritual rain over this region, and that the Lord would yield a great harvest.

The next 28 days provide an opportunity for accountability as you go deeper with God. The journal is a resource you can use completely free of charge. You can be part of what God is doing along the Silk Road.

We hope you accept our invitation!

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