Welcome, 2025! It's time for workplace rededication!

We are thankful to God for the ability to see a new year, and to continue to join Him in what He is doing to reclaim the redeemed marketplace!  And we are thankful for the partnership of many of you who join us in prayer, encouragement, and financial support, to make this possible.  

In our workplace ministry calendar, January and February are the months where we ask every local church to do a business or workplace rededication.  This is a time where every person considers their workplace and asks God to help them fulfill HIS will in their workplace, as it relates to the three great directives from God and the quadruple bottom line.

So we pray together that God will help us to fulfill his Great Commitment Directive from Genesis 1:28 and Genesis 2:15, which brings us to an economic and environmental (creation care) goal.  How does God want me to contribute to the flourishing of my workplace and my environment in 2025?

We pray together that God will help us to fulfill his Great Commandment Directive from Matthew 22:37-40, which gives us a social goal of loving God and loving our neighbor.  What does it look like to love God and love our neighbor in our workplace?  What does righteousness and justice look like there?  How does love manifest itself?

We pray together that God will help us fulfill his Great Commission Directive from Matthew 28:19-20, which gives us a missional goal of being disciples and making disciples in every nation.  Who might God be prompting me to disciple in my workplace?  And as I prepare, am I acting as a disciple in order to be a good witness?

Rev. James Mwalubalile from the Tanzania Assembly of God church in Dar es Salaam (and a DML leader in Tanzania) held this service at his church yesterday and shared these pictures.  His members brought items from their workplace to lay on the alter and they prayed over them together.  They shared testimonies of what God is doing in their workplace and how they are joining Him.  

It's also a time to share laments of the challenges of doing work in places that are challenging, especially to our faith.  And it's a time to pray for those who are looking for a job, so that they too can contribute to the flourishing of their community.

And you can see that his leadership team are all wearing t-shirts that say "work as worship" on them!  

We are thankful for this happening across the 21 countries where we are working, and the many denominations who have said "yes!" to this needed area of discipleship!  

As you enter your work year, we pray too that you will see where God is working, and join Him in His goals for that place!  May you find joy and fulfillment as you contribute to the flourishing of others through your work!