BUFFALO...a CITY of LIGHT!

Esther Calling: What's Your Story?

DAUGHTERS UNITED was birth in 2017, out of a heart cry for COMMUNITY, MENTORING and NETWORKING among women in Marketplace and Ministry.

One Sunday morning, sitting in a church service, I heard Pastor Tommy Reid share his story about driving in Buffalo in the 1990’s

-down RT 5, past the DRY BONES of Bethlehem Steel, over the skyway, past the dead industrial waterfront, and into the broken down streets of downtown.

He shared how it broke his heart... Oh how my heart leapt! I understood this pain, as I had also wept tears on these same streets for many years.

He then prayed for the Lord to breathe life upon these Dry Bones of Buffalo,

That once again it would rise as a great city.

He was rejoicing that now in his 80's, he had lived to see God begin to answer his prayers!

At that moment the Lord touched my heart, and poured a vision into me.

I saw a huge arena filled with women worshipping the Lord

and around the perimeter stood white tents, each representing a different area of outreach or ministry...

I heard a gentle voice whisper deep in my spirit,

“Gather my Daughters”... for such a time as this!

Thus was the birthing of DAUGHTERS UNITED, a global Mentoring and Equipping Ministry for Women on Mission.

Linette Rainville, Founder and Lead Visionary

PRAYER FOR BUFFALO... THE CITY OF LIGHT!

Lord God!

We pour out our hearts to you on behalf of the City of Buffalo, WNY and this whole REGION.

Father, once she was a LIGHT to the NATION, and you called her the CITY of LIGHT.

She was an industrial passageway and you called her the QUEEN CITY.

You called her the CITY of BROTHERLY LOVE because of the depth of LOVE and CARE she has for her neighbors and visitors.

LORD GOD, we ask that you would RISE UP the DRY BONES of this city.

We already see that your hand has been at work here at our waterfront, at Canalside, at our Military Park and our Medical Corridor.

We see LIFE RISING UP all over this city and this region.

FATHER GOD, today we ask you also to RISE UP a Spirit of UNITY among our CHURCHES to

BE your LOVE to each other,

to HEAL our racial and religious wounds,

to tear down our denominational walls,

that we could ALL join our DRY BONES together and work as ONE BODY as you first intended us to work.

Lord we DECLARE… you will put muscle and bone onto this BODY, and you will BREATHE a fresh breath of your SPIRIT into us.

POUR your LOVE upon us Father.

POUR your LOVE into our Churches.

BURST through our doors and our walls.

POUR your LOVE back into us that we may POUR IT back out into the streets, into the highways, into the byways.

By THIS LORD, they will know that we are YOURS.

By our LOVE they will know that we are your servants, that we are Christians serving YOU JESUS,

LOVING you, HONORING you, leading the way to your HEART and to RECONCILIATION with YOU.

We LOVE YOU FATHER and we thank you, and we PRAISE YOU for all that you are doing,

and ALL that you are GOING to do in this GREAT CITY and in this GREAT REGION in BUFFALO, NY and NIAGARA FALLS.

POUR, POUR, POUR your LOVE into us, that we can pour out into others.

In JESUS NAME we pray. AMEN.