Purpose: To encourage participants to examine their lives and pray over the question, "Is your life quiet enough to hear God?"

Materials Needed:

• A "Divider"
• A table
• A Laptop
• An mp3 with sounds recorded from our cluttered life.
• A short (no more than 1:30) presentation of images, fading away 1 by 1 slowly, revealing Psalm 46:10 underneath.
• Optional, but very helpful: The nooma video, "noise"
  
• A headphone splitter
• At least two pairs of headphones
  

• Use an mp3 player's record feature to records sounds around your neighborhood, the louder and more annoying the better.
• Use a program like audacity (a Free audio editor for Win/Lin/Mac) to mix the sounds recorded on the mp3 player to create a montage of clutter (switching between left and right channels is a good effect).  Make sure the montage fades out slowly towards the end (you can download our sample, here).
• Use a program like Flash (very expensive, but cool), or OpenOffice.org (not as cool, but the 2.0 version [now in beta] did a good job for us, and you can create the presentation a lot faster.  Our sample will be up soon for you to see.  The presentation should:
1. Be easily loopable by mouse-click
   
2. Uncover Psalm 46:10 by the end
3. Reveal the question, "Is your life quiet enough to hear God?" after the sound ends.
4. Have the "noisey life mix" in the background.
• Put the laptop with the completed presentation on the table, with the screen facing away from the main worship area.
• Set up the presentation with the "click to begin" slide already set up.
• Plug in the headphone splitters and the headphones.
• Set up the divider (we used an easil, covered with fabric) so that the title of the prayer station is facing the main worship area, but is blocking the bulk of the station from view.

• If you are using the nooma video, view it at an appropriate time in the worship (we viewed it during our corporate prayer time, it's 13 minutes long and was perfect for that moment).
• During the prayer-station movement, encourage participants to come in with a partner, and experience the presentation on the laptop screen.
• Before moving one, have them meditate on the closing question, pondering how they might unclutter their life to hear God.
• Note:  It's very important that people don't come in to the presentation half-way through, make sure people are patient and allow the people in front of them to meditate on their experience without disruption!
  

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