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CONNECTIONS + CONVERSATIONS - 08/26/99
...Connecting Those Who Connect Pastors In Prayer...
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I N T H I S U P D A T E (and for our prayers):
ACWORTH, GA
"THANKS!" FOR THE FEEDBACK
HEARTNOTES
CINCINNATI, OH
AUTHORITY MUST BE EXERCISED IN UNITY
AN INVITATION TO CELEBRATE JESUS IN CHICAGO
GREATER PHOENIX PASTORS PRAYER NETWORK
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA
VENICE, FL
AMARILLO, TX
WACO, TX
ERIE, PA
DETROIT, MI
AN ENCOURAGING WORD...
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ACWORTH, GA
>From: "William J. Murchison, Jr." <billmurchison@sprintmail.com> My name is Bill Murchison and I pastor the Mountain Of The Lord Church, a small church in Acworth, GA, a suburb of Atlanta. We are two years old as a church. We are part of KingdomQuest, an apostolic covering for churches, which was founded by Apostle Don Atkin. Don wants our churches to be more involved in the NPPN and I will be giving them information at our Set-Men conference in several weeks.
I have been helping co-ordinate city wide prayer meetings in Acworth for the past year. Our next city wide prayer meeting is on September 7 at 7:30 pm at Zion Hills Missionary Baptist Church. Please pray that we will have a good turnout of pastors and congregations.
We also have a weekly pastors prayer meeting which is held every Tuesday morning at the Faith Assembly of God. We have all different denominations represented at that prayer meeting. Tommy White is the pastor at Faith Assembly and he hosts the meeting.
Your NPPN has been a blessing and an encouragement to me. Thanks for your faithful service in this ministry. May the Lord bless you and continue to direct your paths.
Bill Murchison, Mountain Of The Lord Church & Ministries, 5373 Priest Road,
Acworth, GA 30102 / 770-917-9809
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"THANKS!" FOR THE FEEDBACK
>From: Mark Simpson I <
msimp53@mediaone.net>Just wanted to thank you, Phil, for the bulletins. The NPPN is a real blessing.
Of special inspiration were the recent ones on Lighthouses, which I believe are a real word from God to the church. A simple plan is needed to move the church towards sinners; churches I visit everywhere are cut off from them with seemingly no care. In fact, I just developed a mini-seminar on how to assimilate new people. The bulletin on harmony between pastors and churches was very timely. I am working on a study right now, a sequel to one I wrote "Why Some Folks Can’t be Pastored", which will be called "Why Some Churches Can’t be Pastored." This is an epidemic.
At any rate, your material is really connecting. Keep up the good work.
Some
of us out there are actually reading it!!! : - )
Much love in Him, Mark Simpson
--->NPPNote; I asked Mark for more info on those studies:
Folks can call, write or e-mail me and there is never a charge for anything
"River of Life" provides. Folks can send along a love offering but it must
be done in love with no pressure; that’s all we ask. Have a blessed day,
Mark
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HEARTNOTES
>From: stevebarack@ccnmail.com
Can’t say enough about the messages you so faithfully send out. Each item has the sweet aroma of proper sacrifice created by hearts committed to God.
As we begin our new work, we are impressed by this compilation of
"heartnotes" to be even more personal with each aspect of the Leading in
doing His will.Thanks again, Steve
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CINCINNATI, OH
>From: MarkLuth@aol.com
(1) Hope 2001 brings spiritual leaders from throughout metropolitan Cincinnati together on a quarterly basis. The chairman is named Alex Aronis. I personally have only attended one session. But I was very impressed and inspired by the broad based-representation of Christian leaders committed to praying for evangelization of the whole metropolitan area. The next gathering of the group happens on Thursday, August 19, from 8:30 to 10:30 in the morning. It will happen at Kenwood Baptist Church, 8341 Kenwood Road in Cincinnati.
(2) While attending the recent Billy Graham School of Evangelism in Saint Louis, I made preliminary inquiries regarding the possibility of having one of the associate evangelists come to Cincinnati. I have begun contacting some of the local pastors to determine their interest in this idea and their willingness to join me in praying about it. I will soon arrange for a representative from the Graham organization to come to Cincinnati to explain to us what might’s involved in having an associate evangelist in our area. I believe that this could be one more means of helping the churches to work together and pray together toward bringing people to faith in Jesus Christ. If you might be interested, contact me at Friendship Church at 513-752-5265.
In Christ, Mark Daniels, Friendship Church
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AUTHORITY MUST BE EXERCISED IN UNITY
>From: Bob Sperlazzo http://www.topica.com/lists/ICD/
>>From: WVCJ2000@aol.com
"There must be unity and a spreading of authority among the leaders of God’s army. We are all one family and its time we start to see each other as family and our ministries as Gods property.
"For the glory to increase no one-man-shows will be allowed; it will be many leaders working as the disciples worked. In mutual respect and submission.
"(Our) dependence on man and our self reliance it is a serious sin with God. Read Isaiah 29:13-24; Hosea 10:12,13.
"Looking forward to His plan", Steve Gray
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AN INVITATION TO CELEBRATE JESUS IN CHICAGO You Are Invited To A Celebration!
Celebrate Jesus 2000 Chicagoland - An Initiative to Shore the Gospel With One Million People Before the End of the Millennium.
How Can I Help?
Become a Chicago 2000 Prayer Partner!
Use the Prayer Guide (below)
Pass the Chicago 2000 Video to your Pastor!
Make Plans to be one of the 100,000 Lights! Come the Chicago the weekend of July 7-9, 2000 to share the gospel with one million people who do not know Jesus.
Photocopy the prayer Guide for your Prayer Team or Church Newsletter!
Look for More Opportunities at: www.chicago2000.net
How Can My Church Help?
Become a Chicago 2000 Prayer Partner Congregation! Use the prayer guide (below) in your Church newsletter and Sunday bulletin Use the Chicago Video at a Sunday Morning Service Sponsor a New Work! Partner with us to plant a new congregation for new believers - Contact Keith Draper 708-848-9120 Send a Mission Team! Hundreds of churches have sent volunteers to serve with our churches Backyard Clubs...Choirs...Construction Workers...World Changers - Contact Danny Hester: 800-645-2412 Join us in Chicago for 100,000 Lights, July 7-9, 2000! Celebrate Jesus with thousands of Christians sharing the gospel with one million men, woman and children throughout Chicagoland.
How Can We Pray?
Sundays-- Give thanks to God for this unprecedented opportunity!
Pray for the 250 churches in the four Chicagoland Associations.
Mondays-- Pray for 100,000 volunteers who will share the gospel with one million lost people on July 9, 2000.
Tuesdays-- Ask Jesus to establish 80,000 Lighthouses of Prayer throughout the region that will gather in prayer, demonstrate care and share the good news with neighbors.
Wednesdays-- Ask the Holy Spirit to turn our congregations into houses of prayer. Pray for the staff members of our local and state associations.
Thursdays-- Ask the Lord to bless each Chicagoland Pastor. Petition the Lord for a Pastors’ Prayer Group in every community.
Fridays-- Pray for a multitude of new churches and new Church Planters.
Saturdays-- Ask the Lord to send the Churches into the streets on missions of m ministry evangelism.
For more information contact Phil Miglioratti:
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GREATER PHOENIX PASTORS PRAYER NETWORK
>From: "Cal R. R. Kaufman" <crkljk@juno.com>
A am a part of the Greater Phoenix Pastors Prayer Network. We pray every Tue Morn at 7am. Thanks for putting me on your list.
Cal Kaufman, Pastor, Sunnyslope Mennonite Church, 9835 N 7th St,
Phoenix, AZ 85020 602-997-7171
--->NPPNote: Both Phoenix and Chicago (www.chicago2000.com) have been designated as Strategic Cities by the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention with an intense focus on prayer evangelism in the year 2000. Each city has a unique strategy but both are eager to partner in prayer, receive mission teams, and invite volunteers to join them in the ministry of sharing the gospel and planting new churches.
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VIRGINIA BEACH, VA
>From: "Bob Fox" <
bobfox@integrityonline18.com>1. Clergy Appreciation Month, October 1999: Focus on the Family has promoted this for years and has some written resource to help organize it (call 800-232-6459 for info pack), but it is basically a time to honor all pastors and other clergy for their service to the Lord and to their people. It’s hard to remind your own church board to do this for you, so why not call the church near you to remind them to honor their pastor. That pastor will be thrilled when he finds out you did that! Who knows, maybe they will call to remind your leaders to honor you! That would be the best way it could happen. Remember, besides a gift, the best way to honor a pastor is to commit to pray for him and his family regularly and faithfully. John Maxwell has a book on how churches can do this. It’s called Partners In Prayer ($8 suggested donation from us)
2. Lighthouses of Prayer Information Sources: We are only two months away from our first ever live radio broadcast to launch Lighthouses of Prayer in Hampton Roads. Churches are gearing up by getting their people trained through Norm & Debby Przybylski (474-2054), the are ordering free subscriptions to the Mission America monthly Lighthouse newsletter by writing 5666 Lincoln Dr., Suite 100, Edina, MN. 55436. They are also registering their churches and their people on the national Lighthouse web page at www.lighthousemovement.com. To get more information about the upcoming national satellite television broadcast to launch 3,000,000 Lighthouses of Prayer on Oct 16 at 10 AM ( EST), go to www.harvestevan.org on the web or call 800-989-8004. Please join this fast growing coalition of churches that is committed to launching their people into the community as part of a genuine movement of God in America. Call 560-5444 or 474-2054 to register you church locally with us in Hampton Roads.
3. Lighthouse Training: John Janney will be hosting a training class at his church, Virginia Beach Alliance, in Kempsville on Sat, Aug 21, from 9-12 noon. Call them for details and to register at 495-3944. Norm & Debby Przybylski will do the training. Call them if you want training at your church!
4. 50th Anniversary of Billy Graham’s Greater Anointing for Ministry: In Wesley Duewel’s wonderful book called Revival Fire, he says that in August 1949, while at a conference at Forest Home in California called by legendary Henrietta Mears, the founder of Gospel Light Publishing, Billy went into the forest and prayed. It was long after midnight one night that something happened to him.. "Billy Graham testified he received a deeper transforming experience out in the woods while he was alone with God. Within weeks, his historic Los Angeles campaign began, which gave birth to his new and greatly expanded worldwide ministry" ( p. 329). When I read that this morning, God quickened to me that He wants to give us a Jubilee blessing of what He did for Billy Graham and for the world that night in August 50 years ago! I felt it so strong I actually wept as I prayed for it. Please join me in crying out to God for the greater anointing we need to win our cities and nation to God.
5. 24-Hour Prayer Coverage for Tidewater: The Lord has given us a simple plan to provide 24-hour prayer coverage for all of the ten cities of Tidewater. We need to mobilize and deploy these key city intercessors NOW if we are to see any victory in the upcoming launch of Lighthouses and in other city-wide ministries churches are launching soon. Here’s the plan: Find 10 intercessory coordinators, one of reach of the ten cities of Hampton Roads. Each of them finds 34 intercessors who will pray for 30 minutes each week for city and regional concerns. Each coordinator has a phone line in their home with a recorder that each intercessor from their city calls at the beginning of their prayer watch to get the latest prayer needs and praise reports. A team of regional coordinators will provide regional prayer needs and praise reports to each of the ten city coordinators who add them to their recording for their city-intercessors to hear each week. Then, each of the 340 intercessors is assigned a 30-minute prayer watch so that every hour of every day is being covered by prayer for the city and the
region. Call us right away if you have mature, responsible people who want to serve the city in this way.
6. Dutch Sheets to Speak Sat., Sept 4 at 9 AM at Denbeigh Church of God (1233 Shields Rd, Newport News, VA.) Dutch’s book, Intercessory Prayer , is being called the best theology of prayer ever written. Many churches are studying it and using his video’s for classes on prayer. Call 874-1223 for more information. This is one of the few times Dutch has come here. I hope you can go even though it is a holiday weekend.
Bob Fox, Cornerstone Community Services, 865 Woodstock Rd, Virginia Beach,
VA 23464 / Ph: 757-560-5444 / Fax: 707-988-1525 or 757-523-5834
Web site: www.cornerstonecsi.org
" Laying the foundations for a healthy City-Church"
"Connecting the Body to pray and win the lost in Hampton Roads and Beyond"
" And in Him you are being built together..." Eph.2:22
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VENICE, FL
>From: BILL0838@aol.com
About six mouth ago I ask a few pastor in the area for lunch. From four
that came we have grown to eight. We meet and talk about the community and
some about the church. We then have a round table of prayer for this area
and any special request. I have set back and watch the power and love of our
Lord and King work and bring these men closer and closer ever time they
meet. I am seeing friendship and prayer partner development through this
luncheon. The walls are coming down as we are crossing main line
denominational lines. Last month the pastors came up with an outreach to
have a night of praise and worship involving all eight churches. I can only
give all the glory to God for I feel this is only the beginning as to what
He is going to do in these mens hearts. For I have been standing in the
middle of a desert for the ten years we have been here. I ask for your
prayers for I feel that it has been prayer that has brought these men
together. It is interesting to me when we all lower our heads and pray you
cannot tell what denomination we are from. Amen. Dr. William Loader
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ERIE, PA
>From: RScarlett@aol.com
Just came across information on your group thanks to Internet for Christians. I am a pastoral assistant in Erie, PA. Also serving as the Erie Chapter Director of The Joseph Project 2000 (an affiliate of MissionAmerica). I’d like to know more about NPPN and if there is anything active in our area at present.
Blessings, Roger Scarlett, Christ United Methodist Church, Erie, PA
--->NPPNote: Welcome Roger...I hope you’ll hear from several in and
around Erie, Pa!
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DETROIT, MI
>From: Brenda Moore <
perkb@gandolf.acad.emich.edu>Prayer Fellowship International is a Michigan based prayer group seeking to reunite and renovate Detroit through prayer. We are in the grassroot stages and would like any and all help available. I have read the many reports and I am grateful and much encouraged. However if anyone has a definite manual or guide how to win Detroit for Jesus, please contact me.
Detroit is a city that is deeply divided spiritually. It is normal to see several churches grouped together on one city block. Regrettably, the Pastors won’t fellowship or even speak to each other. I believe the root cause of Detroit’s crime problem is directly related to church division. If a Pastor is asked to attend a function, he/she immediately ask, "What other Pastors are coming?"
But after reading the results of intercessory city-wide prayer, I KNOW God is able to change the face of Detroit forever. I believe Detroit, despite its newly installed casinos, is ripe for revival. Our group, a tri-county, non-denominational, multi-cultural and gender diverse people, are anxious and excited about this grand step of faith. We look forward to any help to claim Detroit for Jesus.
Brenda Moore, Director, Prayer Fellowship International
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WACO, TX
>From: "L.B. Myers" <lb.myers@gte.net>
Here in Waco, citywide intercessors have been praying and prayer walking for over three years. God has established a core group of pastors to unite pastors from all denominations in our city. Pastors come together on a regular basis to pray together and share one another’s pulpits. Ramiro Pena of Christ the King Baptist Church, (my pastor) is being used of God to bring the Lighthouses of Prayer to Waco. The commitment cards continue to pour in, as he shares with other congregations God’s vision for the city. I have heard him say many times, "it will be hard for anyone from McLennan County to go to Hell!" And everyone in the world knows Waco needs redeemed!
Well forgive me for going on and on, but it is exciting to read all the
praise reports and to see God working in all of our cities. Isn’t God just
too awesome??? Blessings, Joyce Myers
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AMARILLO, TX
"K. Ray McDowell" <krm@amaonline.com>
Is there a group in Amarillo Texas?
Blessings, K. Ray McDowell, Sr. Pastor, First Church of the Nazarene 1924 S. Polk, Amarillo, Texas 79109 --->NPPNote: Most of our email addresses do not indicate the name of the receiver, their ministry or church nor their location. The purpose of this Update is to help us connect and begin a conversation that leads to prayer and evangelism. Please contact Ray if you have information about or are interested in beginning a Pastors’ Prayer Group in Amarillo. Also, it would be good to restate that NPPN policy is to keep email addresses confidential. We do not share or sell our email list. The NPPN will run messages (even some that sound like commercials!) written expressly for our network. Snail mail addresses, which are public domain, may be shared but only if they help us fulfill our vision and mission as the NPPN...which is to serve the Body of Christ and mobilize extraordinary prayer, especially among pastors, that leads to evangelism.
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AN ENCOURAGING WORD...
Phil, please change our email address -
That way I can print it out and keep it in our NPPN notebook. I also sometimes copy and clip articles for our files. Your newsletter is among the most useful we receive. Thanks for all you do. (P.S. I noticed a short letter from a pastor up in northwestern U.S. one time - we knew him in the first church we served, so it was neat to re-connect, thanks to you!)
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