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...Connecting Those Who Connect Pastors In Prayer...
I N T H I S U P D A T E
...and for our prayers:
*DULUTH - ANY IDEAS??
*SUFFOLK, VA: PPG
*PRAYER MOBILIZATION + TORCHBEARERS
*SPRINGFIELD, IL: PPG DOUBLES
*NEW ENGLAND UPDATE
*BURLINGTON, IA: NEW EFFORT TO BUILD A PPG
*THE CITY CHURCH OF GREATER
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*DULUTH - ANY IDEAS??
From: “Pastor
Glenn Johnson” <fccpastor@uswest.net>
I have been received the prayer notice for a few months
now and have
enjoyed the many reports about what God is doing across
the country. I have
given hard copies of some of these to other pastors in the
Duluth area and
have encouraged others to check it out.
I have been pastoring in this area for about 7 years and
when I came to
Duluth there were at least 3 pastor gatherings (main line,
evangelical,
charismatic). The
later two joined together a few years ago expecting the
attendance to increase, when in truth it fell off. We have had great
difficulty in getting pastors together simply to
pray. This last fall at a
pastor/wives retreat out of about 100 couples contacted
less than 10 came
together. I don’t
know if there are other pastors in the Duluth area that
read this, but if there are, lets get together!
If someone has some ideas as to how we can get the ball
rolling let me
know. We are a
fragmented community with each church somewhat on their own
or in a small group of 2-3 others. Over the past several years we have had
some good things happen but they have not pulled the
churches together. We
need help! Pray
for us up here in the Northland.
Thanks and may God truly be raised up through the nppn.
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“””QUOTE
One gets the strong impression that God is going somewhere
and he
is going there rapidly. Out of almost every nation today
can be heard the
corporate witness that the Spirit is calling the Church to
complete its task and fulfill the Great Commission in our time.
Jack Dennison in City Reaching
*SUFFOLK, VA: PPG
From: “Bob
Fox” <bobfox@cornerstonecsi.org>
Suffolk Pastors’ Monthly Prayer Meeting: 12 noon to 1 PM
on the 3rd Thursday of each month for prayer and fellowship. Refreshments are provided. Pastors Tony & Kathy Peaks invites all interested
pastors or ministry leaders to Open Door Church of Suffolk, 816 Kings Fork Rd.,
Suffolk, VA 23434 757-934-2671. If you
are a senior pastor, ask Kathy about one of the most stable and fruitful senior
pastors’ wives groups in Tidewater led by Rev. Orla Martin at Full Gospel
Church of Deliverance in Norfolk where she and her husband pastor. Where are the support groups for pastors’ wives? They are probably the most neglected category
of Christian in the Church today.
Please let us know of other pastors’ wives groups so we can tell others.
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*PRAYER MOBILIZATION + TORCHBEARERS
From: Gost205@aol.com
What an exciting day we live in. There have never been more winable
people in the world and there has never been more prayer
being mobilized and
more effective evangelistic strategies being conceived and
implemented in
all of history of mankind than there is right now at the
beginning of the
New Millennium. God
is at work in a powerful way.
The critical challenge we face is to identify, train,
and mobilize
torchbearers for every city in America and in the world. We
use
“torchbearer” to describe the person who is passionate about
a particular
city coming to Christ and who is willing to be the point
person to help mobilize prayer and city-wide church mobilization.
The torchbearer role is most significant in the period
leading up to the
emergence of a city servant team made up of the pastors
and other Christian
leaders who represent the various streams within the Body
in that location.
We look for those who are passionate for Christ, deeply
committed to world
evangelization, and very kingdom oriented. They should be strongly rooted
in a healthy local church themselves but also they should
be deeply
committed to the richness and diversity of the whole Body
of Christ and
therefore committed to building up all of the individual
local churches that
lift up the name of Christ and deeply committed to
mobilizing the whole
church in a city so that it may work in love and harmony
as it seeks to
reach the whole city with the whole gospel to the point of
total community
transformation.
They should have a sense of call to give that role of
“torchbearer” first ministry priority in their lives at
least until such
time as the servant leadership team for the city is in
place.
We need to understand the above and get more
intentional about
recruiting torchbearers.
We need to learn from what God has taught us thus
far and build on it for the future. The above challenge is very doable. He
has made the resources available to us to complete the
task. We just need
to mobilize the resources He has already given us. There
are people floating
around the Body of Christ who are quite capable of being
trained and
mobilized as torchbearers for our towns, cities, and
states if we determine
that this is a vital role in reaching our city, state,
country, and world
for Christ. In other
words, I am saying that through some concentrated
prayer, “sanctified networking”, deliberate coaching, and
intentional
training we can begin to identify, train, and more
effectively mobilize
those people in our midst who could fulfill that role for their particular
spheres of influence that God has assigned to them.
If we recognize the critical nature of the role, put our
best prayer and
search effort to work, and do the best job of training
that we could do
using what God has taught us thus far in the whole prayer
mobilization and
city reaching effort, we could do a much more effective
job than we are now
doing.
Let’s put some prayer focus, training, mobilization
resources behind
getting some highly trained, highly motivated, godly
torchbearers in America
and around the world. They are out there in abundance and
I believe that God
would have us identify, train, support, and mobilize them.
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*SPRINGFIELD, IL: PPG DOUBLES
From: “Dan
Roseberry” <newlife@fgi.net>
Dear Phil and Fellow NPPN Associates:
I want to give you a brief update from Springfield,
Illinois. In the past
I have had you all pray for our city, and I want to give
you all a wonderful
update. I have
been a part of a very small PPG in Springfield for over
seven years.
Participation in our group has averaged about 5 pastors. We
have been standing in the gap for our City and State, for
revival and unity
between pastors, all this time. We have tried several things to grow our
group, but nothing has worked. But in the past few monthes, God has more
than doubled our group all by Himself! No advertisements. No human effort.
We are now trading pulpits, having joint services, and
reaching across
denominational and racial barriers. We don’t have a name. We don’t have a
set of By-laws. No
one is in charge. There is no
agenda. We meet weekly
for fellowship and prayer. On the first week of each month, we meet in the
Illinois State Capital Building to pray for our
State. And on the last week
of each month we take communion together, meeting in a
different church each
time to pray for that pastor and church. And the best news of all is, that
in January, we are holding our first Pastor’s Prayer
Summit. God is on the
move again in Springfield, Illinois!
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*NEW ENGLAND UPDATE
>From: NECPrayer@cs.com
Jesus said my house shall be a house of Prayer. Let us pray that the New
England Church of the Millennium will become a house of
Prayer. The recent
Vermont Supreme Court decision recognizing the legal
status of gay couples
should spur us to the desperate need of New England for
God to come and grant us repentance.
Pastors beginning to meet once a week for prayer!
Leading, protection and guidance as they start the first
Alpha
class. May those who come experience love from the
ministry team.
Connecticut: Groton
All-night prayer meeting Jan 7th at
Groton Municipal Building
Leadership of the Youth Challenge woman’s’ work has been
attacked
Kensington Baptist Church pray for continuing unity among
the leadership team.
For the raising up of a network of pastors and prayer
leaders to
see Connecticut reclaimed for the Kingdom. Pray for February
22 a “Day
Apart”
for pastors leading city reaching efforts in their cities from
across the
state.
Pray for Intercessors and Pastors who would be willing to
pray at
the Boston City Hall and Mass. State House weekly. Also
pray for the Boston
Pastors Prayer Summit in March, and for Congress 2000 first
weekend of
February. (Those who
would be interested in being a part of the
intercessory
team at Congress please call or email NECP at (978)
927-5272, <
Pray for intercessors who will pray at the Worcester
Prayer Center.
Contact: Katherine Puleo at (508) 853-8781,<willows@gis.net
> if you feel a
calling.
Daily prayer at Pilgrim Church prayer center, partnership
with
and Pastors of the Northshore. Pray that altar fire may
spread through the
Northshore and New England.
“””QUOTE
Only a God-breathed, Holy Spirit-anointed visitation could
result
in such profound changes as we have witnessed in the
Church in America in
such a short period of time. If in so brief a time as ten
years God can
accomplish what he has in the life of such an obstinate
and apathetic
people as we have been, imagine what he can accomplish in
the first decade
of the new millennium now that he has our attention.
Jack Dennison in City Reaching
*BURLINGTON, IA: NEW EFFORT TO BUILD A PPG
>From: DrFrBeaty@aol.com
We continue here in Burlington, IA. Many challenges!
I’ve been trying for 3 years to get a Pastors’ Prayer
Group going. We got it
going 2 years ago but then 3 key participants moved and
their successors
don’t seem to be interested. However, prospects seem to be
improving and
2000 will be a new effort! I’m convinced Pastors in a
community need to
pray together—for their own spiritual health—and for their
various ministries. There is an interesting dynamic when God’s people learn the
pastors are praying together! God is working but still cry out for His supernatural
invasion. Here is my prayer for the new year:
Dear Restoring God,
Thank You for this new year. Please forgive our failures
and sins of 1999.
Heal the blindness that prevents us from seeing the
potentials and possibilities in people and circumstances.
Forgive our unbelief and give us faith to believe what You
said, “With God
all things are possible.”
Please keep knocking at our heart’s door so that the
coldness and
lukewarmness will be transformed into fervent love for You
and Your eternal
purposes.
By Your Spirit help us recognize and admit and root out
all bitterness, anger and unforgiveness. In their place plant strong healthy
plants of love, compassion and forgiveness.
Yes, Thank You for a new year! Open our hearts and minds
to the new opportunities You want to give us. Thank You for Your 100%
forgiveness.
You that You remember our sins and iniquities no more!
Please fill us with Your Spirit so that we can “Live life,
then, with a due
sense of responsibility, not as people who do not know the
meaning and purpose of life but as those who do.”
In Jesus’ Name, Amen
ß ß ß
And, a prayer by Helen Keller:
The small opportunities each day brings
He leaves us free to use or abuse
And does unchanging along His silent way.
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*THE CITY CHURCH OF GREATER DETROIT
I am so-o-o- excited!
God is working in Detroit in phenomenal ways.
Our luncheon today (1/11) gave us a total of 19 Pastors
and church leaders.
Dr. Burwell and Pastor Higgins of David Ministries were keynote
speakers. A
Board was selected of 5, and will Meet this Friday (1/14)
to officially
organize the City Church of Greater Detroit. Our first Pastors Gathering
will be shortly after Easter. (details forthcoming).
Some Pastors who
oversee other churches agreed to merge their group with
the City Church.
WLQV Radio was present and pledged to provide advertising
for the movement.
The Editor of Christian Happenings Magazine was also
present and pledged to
advertise as well as be a Board member. Thank you so much for being
faithful to obey God in providing this networking
opportunity. I cannot
thank you enough for manning this site. I believe that many City Churches
have been birthed as a result of your obedience to
establish this site. We
in Detroit thank you from the bottom of our hearts. For any Detroit area
(suburbs included) Pastors, Intercessors, Church Leaders,
etc., who would
like to get involved, please feel free to call me. I will put you on the
mailing list and include you in all upcoming events...you
don’t want to miss
what God is doing in Detroit.
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