At the Billings Seventh-day Adventist Church, we are witnessing the Spirit’s power at work in ways both personal and corporate.

This summer we stepped out into our community with a prayer walk, interceding for our neighbors, our city, and our schools (see the Full Story below). That spirit of prayer has also guided us through our recent preaching series on the Holy Spirit, where we explored how God fills His church with courage, conviction, and compassion.

A particularly exciting movement is among our elders. They are leaning into an intensive season of spiritual leadership training, eager to discern the long-range vision the Holy Spirit has for the Billings SDA Church. Their hunger for the Spirit’s guidance is setting the tone for a church family that longs to see revival and renewal, not only in our congregation, but across Montana.

At the heart of this movement is a passion to see Christ’s vision of every member being a “priest” realized, and empowered. We believe God is calling us into a future where every believer is reaching, teaching, baptizing, and discipling people for the Kingdom. As we press forward together, our prayer is that Billings SDA will be known not just as a church with Spirit-filled leaders, but as a Spirit-filled people—living out the Great Commission in everyday life.

In all these things, one truth stands out clear: the Spirit of God is alive and moving in Billings.

Full Story: Prayer Walk in Billings

On September 6, about ten members of our Billings church family gathered at Pioneer Park for a Spirit-led community prayer walk. We began and ended our journey there, setting our hearts to let the Holy Spirit teach us how to pray over every home, church, school, and neighborhood we passed through.

At designated prayer stops, we paused to read Scripture, intercede, and share how the Spirit was directing our prayers from one place to the next. No two moments were the same—sometimes we were led to pray aloud, other times to sing, and still others to quietly lift the city before God. The entire walk became a living act of worship, woven together by the Spirit’s prompting and our shared desire to see Billings transformed by the love of Christ.

As we regrouped at the end of the walk, we were filled with a deep sense of our unique calling—to bring the Three Angels’ Messages to this neighborhood and beyond. Together we prayed that God would prepare both our church and the wider community to receive a fresh and powerful outpouring of the Holy Spirit, that hearts would be awakened, lives changed, and our city made ready for the soon coming of Jesus.