I’m very grateful for sending the information about The JESUS movie in our church on the internet [NPPN]. Today I was surprised when somebody from Jerusalem send me an e-mail, because he’s read that information.

We are now busy with Kid’s Club “Noah’s Ark”. We have meetings every week, during school breaks, from 11.00 a.m. till 2.00 p.m., but in other weeks on Thursdays from 6.00 to 8.00 p.m. We can see as the group of children is slowly growing, and last time there were 12 kids. I am sure later we will send to you some pictures and stories from this events. You can also put this information on the “NPPN” website because we need a lot of prayers.

Best regards and may the Lord bless you, Henryk Hukisz

Misja “Chrzescijanska Rodzina” w internecie Zapraszam.

http://www.mchr.jezus.pl

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3. SALEM, MA: ASKING FOR SOLEMN ASSEMBLY

>From: NECPrayer@cs.com

Pastors and leadership in Salem are asking for a Solemn Assembly during lent which starts Ash Wednesday and ends on Easter. The focus during this time is praying for Salem to be a city of peace (for which the name Salem is derived) and to be a mission sending city of revival. The first international missionaries left from Salem, heading to Burma, led by Adoniram Judson in 1809, making Salem the birthplace of international missions. Please help in fasting and praying during this season of Lent.

God Bless , Jeff Marks, NECP

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4. BILLY GRAHAM CENTER EVANGELISM ROUNDTABLE

--->NPPNote: I had the privilege of participating in the first Evangelism Roundtable of the Billy Graham Center in Wheaton, IL. This posting will list a few quotes that came from the interaction sessions following the major presentations and responses. Future NPPN Updates will give you greater glimpses into the high caliber, cutting edge thinking the Lord assembled for this occasion.

Ravenhill:”Revival is when God is so tired of being misrepresented, he shows up to represent himself.’ (quoted by Dallas Anderson)

Rick Richardson: We must include renunciation (set free...) with repentance (...to change), otherwise our repentance is impotent; we want to change but cannot. Satan has no authority but still has access.

Thomas Wright: Be careful with spiritual warfare techniques (mapping, etc); they may be decoys.

Steve Hawthorne: The idea that “prayer works” is to simplistic and pragmatic. The God we pray to, works. We must be aware of and beware gnostic prayer (secret techniques or mysterious systems); this is no different than magic. God is not dependent on us praying properly.

Phil Butler: Sin is about broken relationships; the gospel is about restored relationships. God lives in community and has created man in his image. Satan’s strategy is to disunify relationships Blessings flow when God’s people work together in unity (Psalm 133) There is no hope for world evangelization with prayer.

Evangelization is a process not an event.

Jesus talked one-on-one to 23 or 24 people:) They all came to him, 2) They all acknowledged a need, 3) only 12% had religious questions; 88% concerned about the brokenness in their lives (Jesus asked: “What is the problem?”). Partnerships are an expression of the nature of God.

My thoughts on the new role of facilitator:

A good facilitator invites Jesus to exercise his lordship while enabling those gathered to give the Holy Spirit freedom to lead.

Alvin Reid: The only reason people don’t come to our churches is that they are afraid they’ll turn out like us. Lost people can tell 1) If you care about them, 2) if the hand of God is on our life, 3) if you believe what you are talking about.

Paul Cedar

God does not wish unity in His body; He expects unity. One of the most serious sins is to divide the Body; a very serious matter. We love to franchise things; there is not a single model that will work in every city.

“Our division undermines the gospel; the gospel is at stake.”

Rick Richardson

“United prayer must have diversity in order to be blessed by the Lord.”

Mark Anderson

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5. DETROIT, MI: WASHTENAW PASTORS PRAYER SUMMIT

>From: Brenda Moore <perkb@provide.net>

The Washtenaw Pastors Prayer Summit was awesome. For 4 days, 54 Pastors and church leaders prayed, cried and sought the Lord. Many personal breakthroughs in everyone’s personal life and ministry.

A joint Palm Sunday service is planned at Eastern Michigan University on April 8^th at 6PM.

Detroit National Day of Prayer will be held in downtown Detroit at the

State Theatre (across from Comerican Park - next door to the Fox

Theatre), 2115 Woodward on Thurs., May 3^rd, 7-9PM. Guest have been

asked to attend from the following areas: local politicians, schools,

police, fire, medical, business, entertainment, sports, and of course,

churches. Blessings

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6. CONVERSATION ~

RESPONSES TO JOHN DAWSON QUOTE

>Referring To: NPPN LightHouse Edition - 010131

>From: “Dean Comerford” <phonebox@clear.net.nz>

This week I received a letter from well-known author and speaker John Dawson, who makes this comment:

“Remember that in the kingdom of God things are not organised into existence. They are born in His Spirit. The process is as follows: worship, conception, gestation, travail, and birth. Whatever you are attempting, cease striving and go back to the place of worship. Enjoy the Lord, rejoice in Him, walk and talk intimately with Him and He will conceive within your heart His purposes.”

There is more to it than that, once God’s will is conceived and born, it also needs to be strategically planned out. It’s like the practical side of the spiritual act - both are essential. However, for now, as you contemplate the fresh page of a new year, take the time to conceive in the Spirit what God would have you do with it. It’s just a thought.

Massive Blessings, Dean Comerford, Invercargill, New Zealand

>The Response-

>From: Copi Valdiviez <surfingohio@cs.com>

I just read the excellent message from John Dawson. It promoted me to send the following:

What God is birthing man cannot organize or control.

Many are attempting to organize the Church of their region for the

purpose of mobilization to see city transformation. And in doing so are seeking God’s blessing on the work they do. However here in Toledo, I have discovered that God does not need help in what He is doing. He only needs our participation.

We have found that we cannot organize or initiate the work of God. These words are just another way of saying control. We in Toledo cannot control, initiate, or organize the work of God in our city. The minute we try is the minute we get in the way.

In the same way that God births life in the spring to nature (if it snows where you live you know what I mean) he is bringing life to our city. He is working everywhere at once. I did not see it right away when I started working here five years ago, but He has been working here for a long time.

Brothers and sisters, if we remain patient and look to be connected rather than seek to connect people to “our city reaching movements” we will begin to see God’s desired outcome.

I have been a full-time city missionary for 5 years. I have resisted forming a “city reaching” organization for like minded churches to join. Because the instant we would have formed an organized city reaching movement ALA “Mission Toledo” there would be an “us and them.” Those in the movement or organization and those not in. And the “us and them” would become an obstacle to what God is doing in our city.

But as we seek to be connected with others rather than trying to connect people to a “city reaching movement” we are seeing the hand of God do the connecting here in Toledo.

God doesn’t need a new “model,” a new “paradigm,” or a “city reaching consultant (and I am one of them).” All we really need is to learn how to accurately hear God’s voice directly and indirectly, and to join in what He is already doing in our cites.

God is the chief architect in what He is doing in our cities. He’s the one with the perfect strategic plan.

>From: DEWPOPHOME@aol.com

Dear Phil, The Lord awoke me early this morning (I was up 2 hours earlier than normal), and read through the entire issue you sent:

“Praying Together” 010206, which I had printed off earlier. Then,

checking my email just now I read the message sent to you by our

“Missionary to the City” here in Toledo. I believe I am to write to you

... which under prayer the Lord revealed to me this morning BEFORE reading

what Copi wrote to you - -

We were privileged to attend and be with Brothers and Sisters at an IRM Pastors’ Prayer Summit last Monday-Thursday, for the Greater Toledo Area. [This was the 3^rd Annual; God has led me to attend all 3 of them] The previous 2 were very good. In fact, I did not believe the 1^st one (with approx. 26 pastors) could ever be duplicated.

BUT God did some very special ministry among us those 4 days. Our facilitators were very responsive to the Holy Spirit’s leading and I believe God really honored that.

The insight that fits with Copi’s comment about city reaching here in Toledo is: We discovered when God inhabits a people, when He pulls back the curtain and pulls us (by grace) into the Holy of Holies ... into His very presence ... then we do not even have to ask Him to fix this problem or that, to heal this disease or that, to deal with this hangup I have or that other one ... instead He just deals with them, He meets our need right where we are and ministers to us simply because He is present. Along with that is the reality that “God inhabits the praise of His people.” It was through praise and worship that God revealed His holy presence to us in a marvelous way; a way unlike i have ever experienced before (and I have been in ministry since 1965.)

In my notes I wrote: “God is saying to us: You, who have a contrite heart, I will lead you. I will comfort you. I speak peace to him who is far off and to him who is near; and I will heal him.”

The next moment one of the pastors prayed: “Lord, reveal Your holiness to us.”

It was quiet in the room for awhile. Some fell on their faces on the floor. Others were on their knees beside their chairs. Others sat still on their chairs. No one stirred. and then one brother started the song:

“I See the Lord, Seated on the Throne, Exalted....” and even though many of us knew the song and in the previous 2 days had joined in when a song was started ... no one sang with him ... his song ministered to all of us ... and then another brother sang the chorus: “Be Still and Know That I Am God.”

Again, it was sung as a solo that ministered to all of us. Then came a time of quietness and weeping quietly among many of us. The Lord’s presence broke in, in a powerful way. Only later, as we prayed thanks back to the Lord did we begin to realize all the ministry the Lord did in those quiet moments as He simply put our lives and hearts back together in some powerful ways,.

Thanks be to God, our Abba, our Father, for He is calling us - not to organize a new program or a new organization - He is just calling us to show up and to participate in what He does when He is present ... or perhaps to be more theologically precise, when we humble ourselves, approach Him with contrite hearts and get out of the way so He can do what He does when we wait upon His shekinah glory.

Phil, keep up the good work. Our PPG here in Oregon, OH (Toledo) does lift you and your ministry up to God as we meet each Tuesday.

Blessings, Pastor Don Weiss

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7. CITY VIEW - NEW NEWSLETTER ON CITY TRANSFORMATION

>From: “Paul Dozeman” <pdoze@hopeministries.org>

Purpose of City View

We want to create a regular exchange of ideas, encouragement, and results with others who are involved in or who desire to be involved in city transformation/restoration. This electronic newsletter will serve as a way to inspire and network with others having a passion for this mission.

Each issue will contain an article or two of what others have done in their city, a request for you to contribute to a particular element of city restoration, and a discussion of an element of city restoration.

Using the Word City as a Generic Term

We are using city as a generic term to define an area with a natural boundary. ZIP codes, school districts, city limits, wards, neighborhood associations, or rural routes can all be considered “cities” in this context.

Why We Use the Term Restoration

We use the term restoration because it most accurately describes the transformational change we are desiring and praying for. When people become Christians, they are not changed into something else; they are the same persons being restored to Gods original intentions for their lives. Restoration occurs as we become more Christlike through the process of being sanctified (“made holy”), being discipled through the power of the Holy Spirit into a full knowledge of Christ and beginning to cause change around us, as Jesus did. Similarly, in our cities, restoration occurs as we, serving as stewards of this world, take back what belongs to God.

Other Terms

As city reaching expands, we hope to standardize some of the terms we use in describing roles, elements, functions, and so on. If you have preferences, we would like to know what they are. An e-mail to pdoze@cityrestoration.org will register your preference.

Radio

Several city facilitators/reachers have used Christian radio to increase the awareness of Lighthouses. In some cities the use of a dedicated broadcast day resulted in hundreds and even thousands of people committing to pray for, care for, and share Christ with neighbors, coworkers, family members, and friends.

If you or any of your local stations want more information, please call us (616-667-9710), and well explain how this is done. We have prepared a detailed handbook with hour wheels, procedures, and follow-up plans. After a phone meeting we can determine if this handbook is needed.

Many stations are also open to having a weekly local Lighthouse update. Many city coordinators are giving material to local stations for broadcast. Each issue of City View will contain some tips for local radio.

Sharing

We get many questions about city and personal intercessors. How do you find them? How many should you have? How do they “fit in”? How do you communicate with them?

If you have experience and are willing to share your experiences, please e-mail your story to us, and well do a feature on this topic in an upcoming issue. If you have a newsletter or some printed information about two-way communication with city intercessors, we would appreciate that information.

Finding Lost Sheep

Two pastors had a vision for their city, and after much prayer they obtained the church directories of every church in their school district. They entered every address from those directories into their copy of mapping software licensed from the Mapping Center for Evangelism (913-438-7301).

The software contains the names and address of almost 100 percent of the residents in the school district, so after the data entry was complete, they knew where all the people who did not appear in a church directory lived. The first measurable result of this process revealed that more than 50 percent of the residents did not appear on the rolls of any church in their district. So much for thinking their city was “over-churched.”

As Christians and new believers in their area commit to being a Lighthouse praying, caring, and sharing Christ with the people around them their households now become listed as Lighthouses in the software. And when people from the community go to a church or faith-based ministry for assistance, the nearest Lighthouse is notified to make contact and to begin a focused prayer-care-share ministry with those neighbors.

This “bite-sized” beginning can be used for connecting neighbors and future gospel distributions.

Restoration Ministries

Churches must be prepared to receive lost, hurting, and needy people. Jesus said the harvest is plentiful, but he never guaranteed that it wouldn’t come with obstacles. In our churches we like to add members who soon begin to contribute financially, but that simply will not always be the case. Addressing the needy person and not just the persons needs is the way Jesus would do it!

In this regard, at least one church in your city should have a ministry such as NEW FOCUS. This ministry provides tools and processes for cultivating change in families, finances, and relationships and for moving people from getting, to gaining, to growing. to giving. You can visit their website at www.newfocus.org <http://www.newfocus.org/> .

Plans for National Day of Prayer or Easter

Other city facilitators would like to hear what other cities are doing city-wide for the National Day of Prayer event or for Easter. Let us know, and we’ll share the information through this newsletter.

Rural Communities

Often we are asked, “How do churches in a rural area go about working together?” Some strategies such as prayerwalking and making intentional, frequent contacts with neighbors have limitations in certain settings. If you live in a rural setting or in another area that’s not conducive to certain strategies, please tell us what you are doing, and well share it in an upcoming issue of this newsletter. Just e-mail pdoze@cityrestoration.org and tell us how we can be a servant to you:

Paul W. Dozeman, City Restoration Ministries

P.O. Box 193,Hudsonville, MI 49426

616-667-9710 / 616-667-2703 (FAX)

www.cityrestoration.org

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8. CITY REPORT: BALTIMORE, MD

In the Baltimore area there are several groups of pastors consistently fellowshiping, celebrating, and/or praying together. These groups were in place before Lighthouses of Prayer (1998) and mission America (1999) came actively into the picture. Several pastors are involved in more than one group.

Several Baltimore City pastors (some for as many as 30 years) have united annually to observe Good Friday services together. Pastor Harold A. Carter (410-523-5306), a Mission America member) initiated this move of unity. Multiple groups, of about seven congregations each, worship together that day. Each pastor preaches a portion of the service.

Pastors Pray is a group of about 30 primarily Howard county pastors South and West of Baltimore who have prayed together monthly for about 6 years. They started from a smaller core group who have prayed together for a full 20 years. In both 1996 and ‘97 their congregations came out together 3,000 strong for a Praise at the Pavilion and one year the pastors had an Evening of Prayer from 8 p.m. to midnight. This group is headed by Pastor Randy Reinhardt (410-997-2988).

Pastors’ Prayer Network started with a core of two pastors 12 years ago and is now a group of about 30 pastors primarily from Anne Arundel and Howard counties and SE Baltimore city. They meet weekly for prayer and fellowship. It is generally hosted by one of the original core pastors, Pastor Larry Smith (410-544-8888). Occasionally they hold All Day Meetings. Within this group, Pastor Dan Mucci (410-761-9075), among others, had acquired insight and experience in church and government interaction.

An annual Watchnight service in the Baltimore arena on December 31^st began about 4 years ago. City Pastor Walter Thomas (410-945-3000) hosts this event and openly invites any congregations to celebrate with them.

Peace for the City is a group of about 80 Baltimore city and county pastors which began about 3 years ago in September 1997. Since February 1998 they have met annually for three days to pray and seek God’s face. Several pastors swap pulpits annually. They staked the City gateways in April of 1998, have a covenant of cooperation, a unique Baltimore Bible published by the American Bible Society, and weekly radio broadcast. Pastor Bart Pierce (410-82-2217) heads the group and has repeatedly hosted renewal meetings and seminars to advance a move toward unity and revival.

Their vision includes a

2001 stadium event.

A Rosedale group of pastors have met off and on since Easter of 1998 (2 years). Members from four congregations prayer-walked their 21237 zip together before the Beyond ‘99 gospel mailout. Chris Goetzinger (410-879-7508) coordinated the prayer-walk. The intercessors of those four congregations have consistently met monthly to pray together. Pastor Rick Correlli (410-882-2116) represents this group.

An Irvington group of approximately nine congregations gathered for worship and then a prayer-walk in April 2000. They stopped at sites of bars and prostitutes praying and asking God for His blessings to be poured out. The rain predicted was held at bay until the walk was over and that night it snowed - a sign of blessing. According to Pastor Paul Heins (410-644-6780) this group of pastors is still meeting and planning future walks.

Temporary groups have formed for organizing specific events such as Pastor George Raduano Jr. (410-821-6573) who led several congregations in hosting the Awake America seminar in April 1998 and the Convoy of Hope outreach in the city in October 1999. They have also hosted united Pentecost celebrations in the past.

Torch & Trumpet Coalition has evolved within the last few months as explained below. The main focus is Prayer-Evangelism through the Lighthouse Movement, Jesus Day activities, and united evangelistic outreaches and gatherings all in accordance with the distinct vision and giftings of local coalition pastors and ministry leaders in collaboration with Mission America coalition ministries.

It became ... apparent to Judy Kesselman (410-569-1207) that Lighthouses of Prayer were a viable means by which to transform the spiritual climate of a city or entire region so she began to take that message to area pastors. In two years approximately 50 congregations in the Baltimore area committed to the Lighthouse strategy to reach residential, workplace or school neighbors.

Starting in 1999 a Light News newsletter was mailed monthly growing to approximately 200+ congregations and some individual Lighthouse keepers. A Lighthouse handbook, Reach Your Street as a Lighthouse of Prayer including local Lighthouse testimonies and evangelistic Lighthouse Prayer Cards have been developed and a book entitled The Full Spectrum of Revival Prayer is in the working. Mike Bonema designated Judy as a Mission America Regional Associate for the Mission America Lighthouse Movement in 1999. Lighthouse Coordinator, Bob Martax (410-882-2217), designed and had manufactured a flashing Lighthouse Lamp for lighthouses keepers which costs $19.95. To order call Sherri (410-962-8340).

One flourishing example of Lighthouses in the Baltimore area is especially worth mention here. They are at the Charlestown Senior Residence. Both the in house Protestant and Catholic congregations support and promote this movement. Of the 2,200 residents 300 are Lighthouses. They regularly prayer-walk their halls and five large groups pray together weekly. They have their own monthly Lighthouse newsletter and four Prayer Breakfasts a year. Last spring they staged their first evangelistic outreach showing the Jesus Video three times and passing out the Book of Hope as the residents left. The leader of the Charlestown Lighthouses is Marge Timmell (410-737-0197). Recently another senior facility administrator has requested her help in establishing Lighthouses within their facility also since they have noted a change in atmosphere at Charlestown! Charlestown is a city within a city; a barometer and picture of the transformation possible for the city of Baltimore!

In the spring of 2000 through Mission America and CBN, over 200 Lighthouse and non-Lighthouse congregations and Christian ministries cooperatively distributed over 190,000 copies of the Book of Hope around the Easter season. The primary promotional letter sent to area pastors was from Pastor Harold A. Carter (410-523-5306) whose leadership and reputation within the city is credited for the widespread support of this outreach. Donations covering 1,400 copies of the Book of Hope for college freshman came in this fall. Charlie Klepadlo (410-561-8424, ext. 214) of the local Campus Crusade ministry will coordinate their distribution. One of the Lighthouse pastors, Pastor Ron Scott, (410-247-0418) had a vision for a Prayer-Walk around the city of Baltimore and the Gideon Army of 300. Fifty segments of 1 to 1 ½ miles each were mapped out around the city just within the 695 Beltway on side streets. Ninety-one congregations signed on for our first Jesus Day Prayer-Walk on June 10, 2000. All of the participants began their walk simultaneously at 10 a.m. A few hundred gathered later at Carroll Park in the city for a united gathering. Minister Darryl Brace (410-325-3080) was instrumental in both outreaches reflecting the heart of senior Pastor Clifford M. Johnson for unity, evangelism and revival.

July 12, 2000 as the Mission America Regional Associate, Judy sponsored a breakfast for several Lighthouse pastors et. al., campus and youth ministries, and Christian radio. Several visions of local pastors and ministries were shared and then Rev. Jarvis Ward, Mission America National Facilitator, challenged the body to form a planning committee. The response was unanimously in favor of this decision. This group has been named Torch & Trumpet Coalition. (The Gideon Torch represents the Lighthouse Movement and the Trumpet the united celebrations such as on Jesus Dat et. al.) This group is cooperative with all other groups and has chosen to come under the covering of Mission America and the international Lausanne Covenant. About twelve pastors or representatives are actively involved in the monthly planning committee. This group has an active mailing list of just under 300 who are either Lighthouse pastors or coordinators as well as congregations involved in the past Book of Hope campaign and/or Jesus Day. We also have an inactive list of about 600+ pastors. The Light News newsletter, changed to Torch & Trumpet, is now mailed to 1,100+ every other month. Every month or so a letter on Torch & Trumpet Coalition stationary will be written by a different coalition pastor promoting an evangelistic outreach or event and mailed to all 900+ pastors. The stationary is still evolving and a logo being designed by Pastor Mark Dorsey (410-944-6705).

Our goal is 300 congregations involved in the Lighthouse Movement, Jesus Day activities as well as other united evangelistic outreaches through Mission America. The recent HOPE Lighthouse Training seminar Oct. 3-4 increased the number of Lighthouse congregations by eleven raising it to 61 congregations. A 50 day spiritual adventure seminar, outside the city limits, is scheduled for October 25. The November 2-4 Fasting and Prayer broadcast has been addressed by Pastor Ron Himiltons letter (410-256-7180). He has had extensive experience with Fasting and Prayer over the last several years.

Pastor Terry Kirk’s letter (410-687-0040), a Baltimore county cell church pastor, is promoting the Neighborly Evangelism Christmas Party as the Lighthouse outreach this December. Future goals include a Lighthouse Sign-Up Day via coordinated Christian radio; expanding the Jesus Day activities to include outreaches to the poor, fatherless, widows and AIDS patients; and united prayer and celebration gatherings. We also strive to increase the newsletter distribution with time from 900 to 3,000 congregations promoting the events of any congregation or pastors’ group as a voice for the whole Church of Baltimore.

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9. CONNECTED THROUGH CONFERENCE CALL ON PRAYER

>From: BERNARDOML@aol.com

Phil,

Please subscribe me to the NPPN e-mail for city transformation.

I participated with you in the conference call with John Quam.

I am Bern Lytle, Pastor of Big Flats Wesleyan Church, Big Flats Wesleyan Church. I am involved as the point person on a servant leadership team of 7 pastors who are giving leadership and clarifying vision for the Corning-Elmira area in the Southern Tier of New York. We have 23 churches cooperating and a dozen or so pastors meeting weekly for prayer. We have a prayer task force developing of 50+ lay intercessors from a variety of churches who gather once a month for instruction and intercession. We are in a population area of 101,000 people. We are connected with other pastors’ prayer networks across the southern tier of NY state thru a Twin Tiers Pastors’ Prayer Summit which meets annually. (this year March 5-8) We have prayer networks in Binghamton, Wellsville, & Jamestown, NY, as well as emerging relationship with networks across the northern tier of our state in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, and Albany.

Thanks, Bern Lytle

--->NPPNote: Thank YOU, Bern ... We welcome you and your PPG networks! Please take a minute (probably 2-3, actually,) to register these networks on our web site. You will help us move closer to our goal of 500 PPG locations for the National day of Prayer:

http://www.nppn.org/ppg/

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10. EVELYN CHRISTENSON: THE IMPORTANCE OF PRAYER

>From: “Keva Harrison” <kharrison@ccci.org>

http://wwww.lighthousereport.com

Steve Douglass of Campus Crusade for Christ talked with Evelyn Christenson on the importance of prayer.

SD: As a Lighthouse, Evelyn, what us the importance of praying with others?

EC: Jesus said that where two or three are gathered together there He is in the midst of them. There is joy and awesomeness in the oneness; and the world has no club that compares with it, absolutely nothing. You see, we have Jesus in our midst, but a bigger thing is that we have accountability. If we have more than one, we will keep praying. When we pray by ourselves, lets be honest, we fizzle out. We make these wonderful promises but sooner or later its all gone and we forget what we’ve done. When we have two and even three or better we call it triplet praying. If one is not there, the other one keeps accountable to the one who is still there praying. Its important to pray together. Jesus in our midst.

SD: So true. How has prayer made a difference in your life and ministry?

And Evelyn, I’ve got to believe this is an impossible question for you in

a short period of time but I’m going to give you the challenge of doing it

EC: I’m going to say it because you remember me as a plain, ordinary, every day pastors wife back there in Rockford, Illinois. But God gave me Jeremiah 33:3, Call unto me and I God will answer, but then I, God, will show you those great and mighty things you know not. Steve, all my life I’ve known I was not smart enough or strong enough or big enough or anything else enough to do all the things God was calling me to do. I couldn’t have even thought of them let alone do them. God has distributed this material all around the world. He’s taken me to teach on every continent. We average 25 percent of people making sure they knew Jesus in every audience. I never could have done that. You see, I learned that it was God. When I got out of the way and said Lord I cant, but I know you can, and I will call unto you and you will answer, but then what’s going to change my life and what’s going to really run my life will be those great and mighty things that you, God, know, but I don’t. God it is all you, I said many years ago, and it has worked.

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11. DENVER, CO: PLANS FOR JESUS DAY

>From: jesusday@juno.com

Christian Leaders Announce Plans for Jesus Day

Pastors in the Denver metropolitan area have announced plans for Jesus Day 2001. Jesus Day, which will be observed on June 2 & 3, is a community-wide event involving many churches and organizations.

Jesus Day will include prayer, music, and many community activities. On Saturday, June 2, churchgoers will be encouraged to get involved in community service. This “Day of Service” will include activities such as cleaning parks, visiting shut-ins, and feeding the homeless.

The focus this year will be Colfax Avenue. Jesus Day will encourage churches to adopt a block of Colfax. Denver Director, Rev. Phil Eberhart explained, “On Saturday, June 2 we will come to the heart of the city, to minister in ‘city blocks’ anchored by those who already do ministry on Colfax Avenue.”

On Sunday, June 3, which is the observance of Pentecost, plans are underway for an open-air praise celebration.

Pastors in the Denver area are invited to attend a lunch on Thursday, March 1 at Colorado Community Church, 3651 South Colorado Boulevard at noon. The Jesus Day vision will be presented. For more information, contact Brian Taylor at (303) 681-3373.

Jesus Day 2001

Post Office Box 620416 Littleton, CO 80162

jesusday@juno.com www.ionanet.com/colorado/jesus

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12. DO YOU LOVE YOUR CITY? ... 10 CONVICTIONS

>From: lifeunlimited@juno.com

Last month my wife and I took nine university students to Kiev, Ukraine on a mission trip which included my teaching 46 seniors at St. James Bible College on the subject “Claiming Your City Through Strategic Ministry and Prevailing Prayer”. I wish you could have been there. Those Ukrainian and Russian young men and women soaked up everything I shared like dry sponges.

It was a delight to spend some 40 classroom hours with them and see their hearts open and their eyes light up when they realized that God had a purpose for their cities, and He had a purpose in using them to reach those cities.

The study was met with much enthusiasm... I have taught this seminar not only in Ukraine, but also in Croatia, Bosnia, and, of course, the U.S. I am convinced in my deepest being that....

1. God has created every “city”, no matter how small, for a divine purpose. That purpose can be discovered by any pastor willing to take the time in prayer, fasting, and research necessary.

2. The problems that characterize any given city are the result of that purpose being unfulfilled because of neglect or direct spiritual attack.

3. Every physical or tangible condition that exists in a city is built on and being controlled by hidden spiritual forces in the heavenlies that must be addressed directly before the visible needs will ever be eradicated.

4. Every city can be reclaimed if scripturally and systematically approached.

5. Every city has an “entrance” ---- a key fact or secret ---- that can be discovered, and which will grant unprecedented access into the spiritual dimensions and needs of that community.

6. Pastors are the key to reaching a city. Churches will never rise to the occasion until their pastors do.

7. A city-wide need requires a city-wide church. Generally, God never gives any denominational headquarters in some faraway place a vision for a specific city. He gives it to local people. People in denominational headquarters will have a national or international vision, which they should. A vision for a city is given to people already in that city, or who are being called to that city.

8. It is possible ---- and necessary ---- for pastors to come together in unity, crossing denominational barriers without compromising their respective beliefs, if they are willing to do so. We have enough in common with each other to overcome things in which we differ. It is either fear, desire for control, or pride that keep us from doing that.

9. The beginning place for such a city-taking strategy is for pastors to begin meeting together for prayer and fellowship. No city will ever be reached for Christ apart from prevailing prayer, fasting, and compassionate ministry. It all begins with the pastors.

10. If the pastors will take the initiative, most of their people will follow. The laity is far more interested in and anxious for city-wide spiritual unity among the churches than most pastors are. They’re just waiting for their pastor to take the lead.

This, Phil, is just a small portion of the introductory part of my seminar. I’m currently in the process of revising (again!) and expanding my syllabus that I used in Bosnia and Ukraine, getting it ready to be translated the second time into both languages. I’m also open to sharing it with pastors groups around the country as God opens the door. It’s one of the tree passions of my heart and ministry right now.

Thanks again for your great ministry. God is using it to bring pastors together and galvanize them into unified forces of prevailing prayer.

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13. ST. LOUIS, MO: A MOVEMENT OF PRAYER

>Harold H. and Joan Hendrick <hhhendrick@usa.com>

At the St. Louis Fasting and Prayer ‘96 gathering of nearly 4,000, two African-American ladies were led to ask God to send a Billy Graham Crusade to St. Louis.

Local leaders had made such a request years earlier. The Graham Association did not anticipate Dr. Graham ever returning for a Crusade.

But the answer to their prayer was unfolding in that very room. Joan and I sat in a prayer circle, joined by a charming and gracious brother. In discovering that I was a “networker” with Christians in St. Louis, asked to meet with me. We did. I then learned that he was Dr. Sterling Houston, Director of North American Ministries of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. He gave testimony of sensing a movement of prayer in St. Louis. He asked me to see if there would be interest among Christian leaders in inviting Dr. Graham back to St. Louis for a Crusade!

Three years later, following a wonderful period of training, preparation, and bonding within the body of Christ here, we had our Crusade.

The above ties in heavily with city reaching in St. Louis. As in Portland, OR, their 1991 crusade was not a end unto itself, but was a springboard into city reaching. The bonding across racial and denominational lines resulting from their Crusade accelerated into a thriving “Mission Portland.” In MP hundreds of Portland churches and parachurch groups committed to the common purpose of completing the Great Commission of Jesus Christ. Mission Portland continues up to the present.

Such is our vision for St. Louis.

There are many wonderful, powerful, creative, visionary, and

effective workings of God in St. Louis. I am continually amazed and thrilled! Nearly every day I am made aware of additional individuals and groups effectively honoring the King! As awesome as that is, there seems to be limited connections between and among them.

An emerging “Mission Metro St. Louis” has a vision. We see more of those doing the Father’s business bonding together in common vision, unity, and purpose to complete the Great Commission of Jesus Christ. Our Billy Graham Crusade is proving to be a good acceleration springboard.

The Mission Metro St. Louis was key in our recent Book of Hope Campaign wherein more than 200 area churches distributed approximately 350,000 Scripture portions to residences throughout the area.

We invite your prayers that Mission Metro St. Louis will experience the anointing of God as a great instrument for His purposes.

Harold H. and Joan Hendrick

6752 Mignon Dr., St. Louis, MO 63033

314/355-1052 / fax 314/355-1110

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14. MOODY: THE SECRET TO A GREAT HARVEST

>From: Marc van der Woude <MarcvanderWoude@XC.Org>

“Now the question is shall we have a great and mighty harvest or shall we go on discussing our differences? As far as I am concerned, I am terribly tired of it, and I would like before I go hence to see the whole church of God quickened as it was in 1857, and a wave going from Maine to California that shall sweep thousands into the kingdom of God. Why not?”

D.L. Moody in the year that he died

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15. NPPN REACHES 100,000 READERS!

>From: “Peggie C. Bohanon” <pbohanon@peggiesplace.com>

The NPPN resource is featured in the February 28, 2001, issue of our biweekly newsletter, which reaches about 100,000 readers. This issue can be viewed online at:

http://www.gospelcom.net/ifc/newsletter.shtml

Congratulations on your site’s selection for the IFC Newsletter. We pray God’s continued blessing on your ministry.

In Christ, Peggie Bohanon, Executive Editor

Internet for Christians Newsletter

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16. JOLIET, IL: PPG SPURS CONCERT OF PRAYER >From: Mark Simpson I [mailto:msimp53@mediaone.net]

On Sunday, March 25, at 6 PM, at least eight different churches in the Joliet, IL area, spurred on by a regular pastors prayer group, will be conducting the city’s second concert of prayer. The first, organized by a second area pastors prayer group, occurred in November. The March 25 event will be held at Living Faith Church, at Gaylord & Theodore Sts. in Crest Hill (right up behind the skating rink at that intersection). Come believing and expecting.

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17. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: FEEDBACK TO NPPN ARTICLE #039

>From: Jane Mackie <jmmackie@ozemail.com.au>

My comment on the article “From Playing to Praying” is PRAISE THE LORD!

You might like to check out our website:

http://surf.to/kidspray

Blessings, Jane Mackie

Co-ordinator, Children’s Prayer Network, Sydney, Australia

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18. RELATED TO ARTICLE #39

>From: “Gary L. Bauer” <glbauer@centurytel.net>

“Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not...” Mark

14:10

We need to spread the word about Partners in Prayer for Schools among believers. If you could check out our web site we would appreciate it. Then, if you would, point others to this ministry. We need a strong prayer covering, as we storm the very gates of hell that have been established about our public school campuses, and have our nation’s children captive in their own land.

As our growth has been tremendous over the past year space has been donated for the national office. Please prayerfully consider becoming a PIPS, and/or passing this message along to everyone you know who might have a burden for interceding on behalf of the public school children of our nation.

In Christ, Gary and Billie Jean Bauer

http://www.pipforschools.com

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