Los Angeles, California | Prayers, Healing, and How God Is Moving Among High Schoolers

MacArthur Park in Los Angeles is one of the most densely populated neighborhoods West of the Mississippi. A Novo InnerCHANGE team has been investing there for some time, prayer-walking, pouring into children, teens, and relationships with neighbors, and developing leaders in the community. During Covid they leaned into activating prayer, and as restrictions began to lift, felt an invitation to engage more with high schoolers. They began focused prayer-walks around one campus in particular, which led to a meeting with the YoungLife area director and an invitation to volunteer at the high school. They also received an invitation to volunteer with recently arrived immigrant youth who were showing great leadership potential.

One of the students at the high school who they had a long-term relationship with was Anna. Anna had chosen to be baptized despite pushback, and had some powerful encounters with God. She began having dreams and visions, and one of those visions was of her aunt, who suffered from advanced diabetes to the point of not being able to walk. She had a vision of her aunt becoming healed in the presence of Jesus, and so she went to pray for her. As she prayed, she felt heat radiating out of her hands, and told her aunt that Jesus was healing her. The aunt knew it was true. This healing has launched Anna’s aunt, uncle, and cousins into lives more filled with the freedom of Jesus. It’s just one glimpse of how God is at work among high school students and in their neighborhood as a result of their prayers.

Anna has since started college, and the high school approved a student-initiated Christian club on campus this fall. Pray for God to move among the kids and families in MacArthur Park!