“It is shocking to realize things are going on in people’s lives, and you would readily help if you only knew about it,” Dively said. The presence of PastorServe at General Assembly will give pastors a chance to unload their burdens and lean on their brothers for support.

If the work of the 2012 General Assembly could be considered a meal, the Rev. Dave Dively, chairman of the host committee, considers overtures, committee reports and recommendations, seminars, and worship to be the meat and potatoes.

But Dively is spending an inordinate amount of time focusing on the vegetable of the 40th General Assembly, which he has declared to be peas. Dively has come up with the acronym PEAS for the aspects of the 2012 General Assembly to which he wants to give special importance: prayer, evangelism, availability and service.

Prayer will take a place of prominence in the official and unofficial activities of General Assembly. Paul Miller, author of A Praying Life, will lead a two-hour seminar entitled “Doing Ministry Through Prayer.” Dively said there will also be a prayer tent at the front of the exhibit hall where attendees can pray with and for each other. “Our goal is to provide opportunities to pray for the work of the Assembly and the denomination, but also to give everyone in need of prayer the chance to connect with people who will be glad to pray and encourage them,” he said.

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