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Prayer INC

_____________________Update from Phi & Carol___  March 25, 2009________________

1130 Randville Drive 1D, Palatine, IL 60074   •   847-991-0153   •  phil@nppn.org

Spring has arrived in Chicago … well, at least below zero wind chill days are (probably) behind us! We hope signs of new life are all around you as we focus forward on our celebrations of Good Friday (what a Savior!) and Resurrection Sunday (what a future!).

We love sharing the news of how God is utilizing your support to fuel our ministry and hope you never take a good report for granted.  We write to both inform & inspire you but also to give a hallelujah to the Lord for his faithfulness.

First, allow us to share two new family blessings  ~ Jennie and JJ (Iagulli) made Macie (3.5 years old) a big sister at the end of February when they adopted a newborn boy they named Preston. … Then a few weeks later Jorie and Tim (Riesen) told Sophia (5 years old) that she would become a big sister in October! Needless to say, Grammie and Papa are elated and truly grateful all of us will be together for a few days at the Iagulli’s.

Carol continues to manage our ministry both from our home office and, thanks to internet technology, from our field offices in southern California and South Carolina  (in-between reading stories to grand kids!). Her accounting and communications work gives me great freedom to pursue the heart of my calling.

Every day is unique for me, which suits my temperament just fine. Some days are filled with conference calls (I enjoy facilitating work teams that have clear and specific goals to accomplish), home office days are often consumed with uploading new posts to one of the many blogs I administrate), travel days take me to a variety of cities to coach leadership teams in the difficult aspect of developing partnerships among congregations and organizations, many Sundays afford me the opportunity to challenge faithful church members to “get out of their seats and into the streets” with a prayer-care-share lifestyle.

And every day we send prayers of thanks to heaven for everyone God has invited to help us with their prayers, friendship and sacrificial donations. We also ask God to return to you the blessing you share with us.

May each of us receive anew the Christ of the cross and the empty tomb,

• Facilitating Moody Bible Institute’s Day of Prayer for 1,000 students and faculty members

• Partnering with the National Prayer Committee to help launch the Praying Pastors Project – an enterprise aimed at providing

• Launching a new blog for Pray! magazine (25,000+ subscribers) called Body Building.

• Coordinating the work of Loving Our Communities to Christ in, now, 17 cities. Directing the coaches. Visiting many of the cities.

• Leading the prayer ministry for an association of 1,000+ Baptist churches in Illinois … We are still grieving the loss of Pastor Fred

• Writing a section of a new document for the Mission America Coalition as we seek to renew the vision (The Whole Church

• Redesigning, thanks to Chuck Straka and Adam Shields, our main ministry website, NPPN.org – Check it out. You can find links

• Interviewing (by email) cutting edge thinkers who have much to teach us about prayer, 21st century evangelism and community  impact.

• Consulting with pastors and prayer leaders by phone and email

• Producing several monthly E-Newsletters that are sent to several