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*OOPS - MY
FAULT
*NPPN: (:~)
*JUST A VERY
GOOD THOUGHT
*SOUTHEASTERN,
USA
*SAN
ANTONIO, TX: RAISING EXPECTATIONS
*CITY CHURCH
MOVEMENT
*EVANGELISTIC
BIBLE STUDIES FOR COMING HARVEST
*THE POWER OF
A COMPELLING IDEA
*SANDY COVE:
PRAYER SUMMITS
*CBN LOOKING
FOR HOST CITIES...PASTORS
*HOUSTON,
TX: PASSION PLUS UNITY
*THE NEW
CHURCH IS THE CITY CHURCH
*NEW JERSEY:
PPGs
*ATLANTA,
GA: 65 AND COUNTING
*AURORA, IL: NEW CHURCH PLANT
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*OOPS - MY
FAULT
>From: “Bonasera,
Anthony Leonardo (Tony)” <albonasera@lucent.com>
Talk about
Freudian slips, this was a doozie! I’m
assuming he meant “denoms”.
Hey
Phil, I hope those 5 pastors in Freeport with different demons find deliverance
SOON! (Smile) Susanne
--->NPPNote:
My apologizes to the Freeport Pastors -
who are from different denoms (denominations) NOT demons - I left my
spell-check lead me astray. Here is the posting as it was correctly sent to
me...
*DULUTH =
FREEPORT
>From: JEastDulce@cs.com
Duluth, Sounds just like Freeport Ill there. Pastors
are suspicious, others say, “we’ve tried that it won’t work. Even those who are
interested, aren’t consistent. Since beginning a weekly Pastor’s prayer meeting
last year. We’ve had as many as 10 there, but usually only 2-4. Many times it’s
been just 2, me and Jesus. The week after we began I was in an accident that totaled
my van, I had a concussion also. Over the past several months the churches
involved have faced major issues. I had a woman make up lies about me. The
ceiling fell in in our kitchen, and I got a ticket for my dog being lose.
I could go on and on. We are also
mainline, charismatic, and evangelical camps, then add racial divisions and
socioeconomic. But Eph 3:17- 4:6 as well as 2Chron 7:14 has kept us going. We
have a core group of 10 people from 4 different churches, and 5 Pastor’s from
different denoms, this Friday we will have our 2nd areawide concert
of prayer in a main line church with an African American praise leader and
interdenominational praise team. There will be charismatics, mainline and
evangelicals there . It has all taken
much longer than we thought it would, but we have to keep on. It’s God’s will.
Bless you! We know God is doing a work there. Ps 20 to you bro. God bless.
Jon in Freeport. Pray for us ya’all.
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*NPPN:
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smiling with gratitude today - our modest ad appears in the latest
issue of
PRAY! magazine. Please join the NPPN Team in the prayer that many
who see
the ad will be led to connect with us and many PPGs will be added to
the
directory... phil@nppn.org
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*JUST A VERY
GOOD THOUGHT
>From: “Palser,
Joel” <Joel.Palser@cbn.org>
Thanks
for providing the national search site for PPG’s. I have begun to use it in our effort to guide CBN viewers who
inquire into strong local churches. I
have participated in Prayer Summits and PPG’s. These gatherings contain the
community leaders CBN can recommend for excellent churches. Perhaps if Pastors knew their registrations
were being used for referral they would be motivated to provide their
references. Just a thought.
In
Christ, Joel Palser, Spiritual Life Director and the National
Counseling
Center
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*SOUTHEASTERN,
USA
>From: ERefreshment@aol.com
Feb
29 Church Leaders Breakfast (free)
9-10:30am N. Raleigh Hilton
Sponsored by Mission America, CBN
and KneePrints
Information regarding LightHouse
Churches & The Book of Hope
RSVP by Feb. 22 at 919.359.0888
More info: www.kneeprints.org/lighthouse.htm
March 2
8am-11:30am Morning of Refreshment for Ministry Couples
with
Jill Briscoe
Sponsored
by Biblical Wellness Ministries
Hosted
by Providence Baptist Church - Raleigh, NC
March
6-8 Pastor’s Prayer Summit
Fort Caswell, NC
Sponsored by Raleigh Area Concerts
of Prayer
Don Rayno, 919.388.3836
White
Oak Conference Center, Winnsboro, SC
Contact:
Bill Fogarty at 704-846-6770
May
15-17 Personal Renewal Retreat for
Ministers
Wintergreen Resort, Virginia
Sponsored by Biblical Wellness
Ministries
eRefreshment
is a weekly encouragement specifically for those in vocational
ministry,
church leadership, and their families.
It is provided free from
Biblical
Wellness Ministries, 5102A Oak Park Road, Raleigh, NC 27512
Office: 919.783.6075 / Fax: 919.783.0655
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*SAN
ANTONIO, TX: RAISING EXPECTATIONS
>From: “dbladue”
<dbladue@texas.net>
Just a
note to let you know an effort going on here in San Antonio, TX. Eight pastors from some of the larger
churches in the city have called for an eight week period when as many pastors
as will attend will come together around the topic of revival. After a brief time of prayer and praise one
of them presents a lesson (sermon or otherwise) on Biblical revival followed by
prayer, testimony, and fellowship over lunch.
The testimonies of reconciliation, transformed lives, satanic
opposition, and overall enthusiasm have been tremendous. The prayer times have been precious as reconciliation
has occurred and new friendships established.
Some wives and intercessors have been in attendance. Next Tuesday, Feb. 15, all wives are being
invited to come as well. It is hoped
that all the pastors in attendance will be preaching on revival over eight
weeks and raising the expectation for revival in this city.
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*CITY CHURCH
MOVEMENT
>From: newsupdate@charisma.net
>A Daily
News Update from the editors of Charisma magazine
>Free
subscription & archives at http://www.charismanews.com
Champions
of citywide initiatives say there’s greater spiritual power
when
churches
unite by Andy Butcher
The
church of Katy doesn’t have an address, but you will find it at various locations
around the west Houston suburb—under signs that declare it to be everything
from Assemblies of God to Southern Baptist.
Pastors
in the community are at the forefront of the growing “city church” movement
that is seeing leaders put aside their differences to work together in new ways
to impact their cities for God. Two congregations recently sent some of their
members along to help a third start a new church.
“We have
chosen to put many of the things that are near and dear to us personally aside
so that we can come together as brothers and sisters who have a common calling,
which is the spiritual welfare of this community,” said Charles Wisdom, senior
pastor of First Baptist Church and recently designated “elder” of the Church of
Katy.
Going
beyond traditional ministerial fellowships, the “city church” movement is
bringing pastors together to pray, plan and work beyond the scope of their own
walls. Around 25 leaders from local churches meet together each week in Katy. “There’s
a deep love and commitment to one another,” Wisdom said. “We really want to see
the other guy flourish and his church do well.” That spirit of cooperation is
replacing the previous “competition and turf protection,” he said.
Similar
combined efforts are cropping up in cities across America according to Jack
Dennison, president of Citireach International and a missions strategist who is
helping coach 20 such projects. Whereas previous attempts at building unity
centered on events—after which participating churches usually went back to
doing their own thing—the new moves were being based in relationships.
“The
Scriptures tell us that there is a spiritual power that is released in the
midst of unity,” Dennison said. “There’s
a great spiritual effectiveness when the body of Christ is linked together and
functioning as a healthy body—in all its diversity and heritage—than when it
functions in a dismembered way.”
Congregations
that are part of a “city church” can maximize their resources and avoid
duplication of effort, instead of competing for “dollars, territory, people,”
said Jon Sharpe, who heads Reach Seattle, the group coordinating citywide
efforts there. Next month they start City Discovery Tours that will take
congregational groups on visits to urban ministries to get a better feel for
the parts of their city that they don’t routinely visit.
At
Mission Houston, another significant citywide project, Jim Herrington said: “We
believe that God has a strategy for the transformation of the city, and that He
will only reveal it when there’s real, substantive unity that is based in
relationships...It’s not about cooperating once on a project. It’s a whole new
way of life for the church.”
Dennison
said that initiatives like those in Houston and Seattle were rediscovering a
Bible truth. “In our isolation we have lost our capacity to affect real change
[in society] because each group and individual is living much like Israel did
at the time of the judges, with each one doing what is right in his own eyes,”
he said. “But when you look at the New Testament, you see that the church in a
city was seen as one church in many congregations.”
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*EVANGELISTIC
BIBLE STUDIES FOR COMING HARVEST
From: Gost205@aol.com
Thanks
so much for all the valuable information you are putting out on the Lighthouse
Movement. I concur with others who are
predicting a mighty outpouring of God’s Spirit manifesting itself in a great
time of harvesting.
One thing
we have been very impressed to do here in Birmingham comes under
the
general heading of “preparation for revival and awakening”. We believe
we need to
have lots of vehicles available to assimilate the numbers of new
conversions
we will be seeing. While it is hoped
that all of this folks
will
move
rapidly into existing or newly planted churches in our area, we realize
that it
is much easier to hope that way than to see it as a predictable reality.
We are
rapidly expanding the number of new Community Bible Study (CBS)
groups
and other
similar type groups, realizing that many of these new converts
would have
come to Christ in “multiple church type settings”. (George Barna
observes
that seekers are five times more likely to attend a multiple church
gathering
as opposed to a single church gathering.)
We believe that the
rapid
expansion of evangelistic Bible studies such as CBS will go a long way
in
conserving the fruits of evangelism. We
would be very interested in
hearing
what other cities are learning
Blessings, Chuck Singletary 205-824-4665
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*THE POWER
OF A COMPELLING IDEA
>From: “Nancy
McGahey” <mcgaheyn@prioritymanagement.com>
>from: tomwhite07@compuserve.com “CitiChurch
of Corvallis”
Ten
years into a city-wide movement of prayer, one begins to ask the inevitable
question, “what might a John 17 expression of biblical unity look like in a
small city environment?” Somewhere mid-summer I picked up on the goings-on in
Little Rock, plans to gather the churches under one roof, pay for it up front,
bless the city with a sacrificial offering, and minister to the felt needs of
the city. Frankly, the obedience of the Little Rockians was contagiously
inspirational.
At an
August overnight retreat of our CitiChurch of Corvallis Leadership Team, we
began to pray into the above question. With the model of Little Rock in our
minds, we began to “go for it” in the Spirit. Why not call all the evangelical
churches in town to come together on the “big day” of our calendar, Easter
morning, and invite the city to a united celebration of the resurrection? Why
not challenge our churches to put aside self-interest, help fund the gathering,
and take up a sacrificial offering?
In
September, we went for it. Here it is February. A full 85% of our evangelical
churches are signed on, with fervent prayer mobilized in every church, saints
excited with a compelling vision and cooperating in a 200+ person choir, prayer
counseling, ushering, children’s programs, communications, all the stuff it
takes to present the gospel with excellence to today’s intellectual,
self-sufficient post-modern culture. We’ve tapped one of our local pastors to
preach.
Just
three days ago we decided to set a goal of giving $52,000 to our city for two
projects: construction of two family living units in a new homeless shelter,
and summer school programs for at-risk kids. On the morning of March 12,
churches will share in a “Prayer Blessing Exchange” with prayer teams praying
blessing on each church and its pastors in the sunday services. In the evening,
we gather under one roof for a two hour CitiChurch Concert of Praise &
Prayer to pray into EASTER 2000. We expect a full house, with hearts full of
faith.
What is
most exciting about all this is that the Easter gig is not a standard, terminal
event. The Church of the Valley (Corvallis is the hub city in a regional
movement) just finished its tenth annual Prayer Summit. Since 1992 we have held 2-3 regional
Concerts of Prayer each year, with pastors prayer groups twice a month, and
occasional pulpit exchanges. Over the past year, Corvallis pastors have met for
focused intercession every thursday at 11 AM. With recent input from Jack
Dennison (CitiReach) and Mike Steele (DAWN), we are always keeping in view a
long-range, strategic view of fulfilling the Great Commission in our city. Both
demographic and spiritual mapping research are on-going components in our mix.
Prayer
for the churches, the city, and the lost will go on. We’ve birthed two on-going
projects, LOVE in the Name of Christ (under World Vision), and an endeavor to
mobilize church folks to serve student needs and physical plant needs in our
local school district.
Here’s
what I really want to pass on. As we flow and go in our city prayer movements...we
can learn from one another’s ideas and steps of obedience. Certainly not to just “copy-cat” or
hitch-hike on someone else’s creativity (thanks, Little Rock!) but to see what
God is doing in our day, and follow the pillar of fire of His Presence with contextual
relevance and integrity.
Stay
tuned. I’ll let you know the end of April how it all comes off.
tomwhite07@compuserve.com /
Corvallis OR
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*SANDY
COVE: PRAYER SUMMITS
Not a
week goes by that I do not have a pastor call and say, “Can you help me know
how to conduct a congregational prayer gathering.” Many have wonderful,
precious people who want to pray but do not know how to join in corporate
prayer.
This
Prayer Summit is a “School of Prayer” by application. You will hear
from
experienced Prayer Leaders from the National International Renewal
Ministry
as well as Rev Paul Chaya, First Baptist,
Olnay, PA.
as he guides us in private prayer, group prayer, reconciliation
prayer. You will see ‘modeled’ how to seek the heart
of God and how to pray
with
others who have needs. Someone said the best school of prayer is with
the
gathering of Pray-ers, oni
Regional
Prayer Summits - Sandy Cove Conference Center, Sandy Cove, MD,
February
28-March 2, 2000 - Two concurrent Summits: Pastors & Spouses +
Women In
Leadership
These
summits are protected to spend time with the Lord. The goal for the summit is
for everyone to come to experience that one important thing in life expressed
by David in Psalm 27:4, “One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall
seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to
behold the beauty of the Lord, and to meditate in His temple.’
A Prayer
Summit is defined as a prolonged, four-day, life-changing worship experience
attended by a diversity of Christian leaders from a specific geographical
region whose sole purpose is to seek God, His kingdom, and His righteousness.
We come with an expectation that He will create and guide us through a
humbling, healing process that will lead to unity of heart, mind, and mission.
You will be guided by experienced Prayer Leaders who will teach, lead, mentor
as they go.
Beginning
on Monday, February 28 with lunch.
Ending
Thursday, March 2 at 11:30.
Total cost
is $225 per person. (No offerings or additional costs.)
Cost
includes lodgings (double occupancy) and meals in the Lodge. Registrations must be accompanied by a
$50/pp deposit (or full payment of $225/pp) - PLEASE DESIGNATE WHICH SUMMIT and
sent to Renewal Ministries, PO Box 5761, Philadelphia, PA 19120 by Friday,
February 18.
Mrs.
Onie M. Kittle, “One of you... “ (Col. 4:12)
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*CBN
LOOKING FOR HOST CITIES...PASTORS
>From:
March for Jesus <MFJUSA@compuserve.com>
CBN is
looking for cities to host a pastors breakfast as part of their “The Book”
Tour. Here is a brief announcement that
I took from a Chicago release. Of
course if you choose to work with CBN your announcement would include your city
and area:
“This
Easter an unprecedented partnership of local churches and national ministries
will join to bring the Gospel to the doorsteps of the Chicagoland area. We are
hoping to partner with you in a massive media blitz and Gospel distribution in
Chicago.
During
the week of February 14th, you are invited to join us at a complimentary
breakfast or luncheon meeting at one of the hotels listed below. These meetings
will communicate our vision of working with local churches in the Chicagoland
area, as CBN, Mission America, the 50-Day Spiritual Adventure and Jesus Day
join forces in advancing the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Over the
past several months a national call to join the Lighthouse Movement has been
heard across our nation. Many Chicago area churches have responded. It is our
hope even more will join with this powerful expression of Christian unity and
outreach. Your vital participation in this campaign will be fully explained at
our February meetings. For now, allow us to give you a brief overview of what
is coming to Chicagoland.
Our
desire is to come alongside local congregations to uplift the church in the
eyes of the community. We will conduct a massive media blitz on secular
television stations in the area. In addition we will provide excellent
distribution materials, coordinated preaching and discipleship resources, and
mapping strategies for your neighborhoods.”
If you
would like for your city to participate, please contact CBN as they are open to
extend the Tour to more cities.
Call
Gail Diesen-Raynolds. If you are unable
to reach her in a timely manner, you are welcome to contact Edie or Mark:
Gail
Diesel-Reynolds--757 226-3994 office/757 615-1962
cell/gail.diesel-reynolds@cbn.org
Edie
Wasserberg--757 226-2313 office/ediewasserberg@cbn.org
Mark
Wright--757 226-2313 office/mark.wright@cbn.org
Here is
one more announcement :
This
invitation to view Easter in a new light will culminate with a description of a
powerful conclusion to the Easter season. March for Jesus has planned a unique
celebration for the Saturday of Pentecost weekend. It’s called Jesus Day.
Designed to be a day on earth as it is in heaven, churches of all kinds will be
joining together to plan social action activities and public expressions of
Christian unity. It will be a unique
opportunity to see Heaven in a whole new light.
The
three-part emphasis of CBN, The 50 Day Adventure and Jesus Day will
help local
churches launch and sustain Lighthouses. Distributing the Book of
Hope will
allow church members to identify the neighborhood God intends for
them to
illuminate. The 50 Day Adventure provides a Biblical model for
“letting
our light shine” through eight sermons on Jesus’ evangelistic
approach
and action steps that result in lifestyles of prayer, care and
share.
Jesus Day provides a structure whereby congregations can sustain
their
lighthouse emphasis on an ongoing basis. Watch for more information on
these
breakfast meetings coming soon to a city near you. Please call me if
you have
any questions. I will be happy to help
where I can. In Him,
Stephanie
Tucker: 404 627-3267
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*HOUSTON,
TX: PASSION PLUS UNITY
>From: “Jim
Herrington” <jhmh@flash.net>
A
passion for people who don’t know Jesus plus a commitment to work with the whole
body of Christ is getting big results in the Memorial/Spring Branch area. In December 1999, 1,600 volunteers from a
group of 52 churches and para-church organizations distributed 48,000 Jesus
Videos to households mainly in the Memorial/Spring Branch/West Houston
area. Drawing on Christian churches of
all denominations in the area, the project, called “The Gift,” demonstrated
that the Body of Christ can unite to accomplish much more together than could
be accomplished by any one church or organization.
According
to Peter Forbes, lay leader from Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church and a
driving force behind this project, the intangible things that happened were as
important as the statistical results.
He said, “Men and women came together in the love of Christ, celebrating
unity in the Holy Spirit. Uniformly,
there was a sense of awe at what the Holy Spirit can do if we make ourselves
available.”
On
Saturday, February 4, representatives from “The Gift” met with Jim Herrington
and Galen Blom of Mission Houston to explore next steps for this group. Blom, who represents Mission Houston in
serving the churches in the Memorial/Spring Branch area is currently working
with Memorial Drive Presbyterian Senior Pastor, David Peterson, to begin a
Pastors’ prayer group in this area. He
affirmed that “Bringing pastors in the area together to pray will help broaden
the base of unity upon which the Lord will expand the results of the work done
by this group.” Do we go back to the
same area this spring to touch those homes that did not receive a Jesus Video? Do we move to other areas of the city? How do we connect our passion for evangelism
with the passions in the Body of Christ for discipling new believers? These and other questions are being
prayerfully considered.
“The
Gift” is just one example of many ways the Body of Christ is coming together in
the Greater Houston area. Mission
Houston is seeking to serve these groups by helping the churches develop an
ongoing strategy to address high priority needs that is birthed in prayer. As you pray today, ask the Lord to give you
opportunities to connect to the larger body of Christ. Ask him to bless “The Gift” in its next
stages of development. Ask him to raise
up many, many more groups like this all across the city. And, ask him to grant favor to the Mission
Houston team as they serve the whole body of Christ (all who claim and follow
Christ as Lord) in the Greater Houston area
as it unifies and mobilizes to reach the whole city (every person, people group and every community)
with the whole gospel (the demonstrated love and declared truth of Jesus).
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*THE NEW
CHURCH IS THE CITY CHURCH
>From:
Dean Comerford <phonebox@clear.net.nz>
Jack
Dennison, in his new book ‘City Reaching’, asks a most excellent question. Referring to the many nations, particularly
in the third world, that are experiencing revival and an outpouring of God’s
Spirit, he writes, “with clear signs of a holy visitation in other parts of the
world, the worrisome question facing us here at home has been, “Will God pass
us by?””
Although
the question is directed at America, it applies equally to the other nations
where many of the subscribers to this column also live, namely New Zealand,
Australia, and Europe. So has God
passed us by? Are we destined to live
in the after-thought of God, where a vibrant Church is only a distant
memory? I’m with Dennison, who answers,
‘No!
However,
the reality is this; we can no longer expect to have God’s blessing without
changing our modus operandi. For over
thirty years the Western Church has been going backwards. When will we wake up and smell the
coffee? Stephen Covey, author of ‘Seven
Habits of Highly Effective People’ says, “one definition of insanity is to keep
doing the same things and expect different results.” It is time for a paradigm shift in how we do Church. A new wineskin for new wine, as Peter Wagner
would say.
Let’s
face it though, new wineskins do exist.
There are hundreds of local churches who have found new ways to do
Church and are growing against the downward trends of other churches, yet the
Church as a whole still declines and our communities are still bound by the
enemy and are far from being transformed.
So let me suggest that the new wineskin is not only at a local Church
level, it is also at a citywide level.
Without losing the momentum we have for relevant and contemporary local
churches, we must begin to view things in an entirely differently way - that is
what it means to have a paradigm shift.
Argentine
pastor, Carlos Mraida, has written that “the city is the biblical environment
that defines the local character of the Church”. It is time to have a radical re-think of how we see the Church. Is the Church really expressed best in a
single congregation, or even in a denominational grouping? All around the world, community after
community, church after church, pastor after pastor, is discovering that
isolated congregations can not reach their communities well and that
denominational groupings are largely ineffective because their geographical
spread has diluted the benefits of their networking. It is time to rediscover the city-wide Church that is expressed
over and over again in Scripture. It is
time to network together the congregations found in each and every geographical
community of the world. It is time to
discover the leaders that God has called to lead whole cities and ordain them
to give the leadership they are gifted to give. It is time to express our vision and purpose for the Church in
our community and then to develop a plan to achieve it. Then with God’s help, we will see strength
return to an impotent Church. Then power
will begin to flow. Then revival will
come. It’s just a thought.
Dean
Comerford - phonebox@clear.net.nz
Invercargill,
New Zealand
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*NEW
JERSEY: PPGs
New
Jersey Regional Pastors’ Prayer and Fasting Retreats hosted by Strategic Prayer
Command, a ministry of prayer for revival in New Jersey.
For
Pastors in the following counties:
Middlesex
Somerset Union
Essex Mercer
Hunterdon
Tuesday
- Thursday, March 22, 23, 24 at Liebenzell For Pastors in the following
counties:
Sussex
Warren Passaic
Bergen
Hudson Morris
Monmouth
Tuesday
- Thursday, April 4, 5, 6 at Harvey Cedars For Pastors in the following
counties:
Ocean Camden Atlantic
Salem Burlington
For more
information or to register call Eleanor Lachenauer: 201-941-2465
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*ATLANTA,
GA: 65 AND COUNTING
>From:
Jacquie J Tyre <j-mtyre@juno.com>
Thanks
for posting our announcement the last time. I have received
numerous
inquiries from people in Atlanta, plus words of support, help and
encouragement
from others around the country who are on similar journeys in
their
cities—and they have been most gracious in offering help, counsel
and
prayer. This has been an awesome
surprise blessing! Thank you for your
ministry
to the Body of Christ! In Him, Jacquie
Atlanta
Prayer Gatherings: Praise Report and
Update On February 8th, we
had our first Pastors and Intercessors Prayer Gathering with approximately 65
present, representing a variety of streams of The Church in Atlanta -- denominational, non-denominational, evangelical,
Pentecostal, and charismatic congregations, plus, para-church
organizations. We shared together in an
open forum concerning the topics of “What makes me WEEP over Atlanta”, and “What
I dream for Atlanta is. . . “ This
time of sharing prepared our hearts to go before the Lord in brokenness,
repentance and desperation to see God
move in reviving power among His people—to bring about a spiritual awakening
among the citizens of Atlanta resulting in massive numbers of people being
saved and transformed by the Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Our
hearts are encouraged and challenged by a sense that the Holy Spirit is
divinely orchestrating the steps of His people in Atlanta to bring us together “for
such a time as this.” A fresh synergy
of the Holy Spirit pulsates through each person that we speak with, or hear
from via e-mail. Perhaps, by God’s
grace, this is the time we have been praying for over the years—the time for
Atlanta to be ablaze with the glory of the Lord. Zechariah 2:5 declares of Jerusalem: “’For I,’ says the Lord, ‘will be a wall of fire all around her,
and I will be the glory in her midst.’”
May this be true for Atlanta in these days!
Our next
Prayer Gatherings will be held at the Salvation Army Facility, located at I-85
north and the North Druid Hills Road exit.
The dates are: Thursday,
February 24 -- 10-11:30 a.m.
Tuesday,
March 7th -- 10-11:30 a.m.
We
encourage all pastors, intercessors and worship leaders to attend. If you desire more information you may
contact us via e-mail and someone will reply as soon as possible. Please spread the word—and come with a
friend!
Also,
remember to mark your calendars for “Reaching Atlanta: A Day of Training with Ed Silvoso”—March 23rd,
all day. Also, we are planning to host
a City-wide Prayer Gathering with Ed Silvoso on Friday night, March 24th
. Details to be announced soon.
For
His Glory! Jacquie Tyre For the Servant Leadership Team
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*AURORA, IL:
NEW CHURCH PLANT
>spiritlife1@juno.com
I’m
Pastor Pat McManus of House of Praise Ministries in Aurora, IL. We are a new
church plant in Aurora. We are related to Christian International. I would like
to be included in the NPPN...Blessings Pat --->NPPNote: It is our prayer
that many new church planters will find the NPPN so that prayer will be a vital
factor in the development of their church. Please connect us to any new church
planters you know or are prayinf for.
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