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Ethnê World Changers' Prayer Handbook Ethnê World Changers' Prayer Handbook for Young People is designed to help inspire informed prayer for the least-reached peoples around the globe. With clear explanations of who these groups are and why they remain least-reached, the handbook lays the foundation for understanding, then presents overviews of the peoples of each of the 12 regions with specific people profiles and prayer points for four specific groups in every region. ===>Click headline for more information . . . * Try these keywords in the Search This Blog box above: Uncommon, Corporate, Coordinator, Prayer, Revival... * Coaching? Teaching? Preaching? on prayer - Contact Phil@nppn.org * Pastor Phil's ministry schedule: http://nppn.org/Schedule.htm * Join the Church Prayer Leaders Network @ http://www.PrayerLeader.com

"And with that [Jesus] breathed on them and said, 'Receive the Holy Spirit'" (John 20:22). "They saw...tongues of fire" (Acts 2:3). Editor's note: Read with thanksgiving about what God has been doing in Orange City, Iowa: Just wanted to let you know about our 24/7 experience. Trinity did a full week, October 22 to 29. It was unbelievable. We ended the week with an evening time of sharing about facility needs and our vision to add on, rebuild, or relocate. I won't tell you all that happened, but below is an excerpt from a chapter in a book that Jeff Barker is writing: Leap forward nearly two decades after I joined that pastor in helping start a second service. I still attend that church. The church and I have both grown and continue to grow. This fall, we organized our first ever 24-7 prayer week. Our senior pastor got together a small team who agreed to pray, organize, invite others, and set up the sanctuary. The plan was to divid...

Prayer Leader interviewed Mike King, author or Presence-Centered Youth Ministry PL ~ Mike, your new book, Presence Center Youth Ministry, approaches youth ministry from a radical perspective - How is your approach different than the prevailing youth ministry culture? The approach I take is radical. The meaning of the word radical, comes from the Latin word (radix)meaning root. In this context, Presence Centered Ministry is radical because it goes to the root of biblical Orthodoxy and embraces Orthopraxy (biblical practice.) The gospels invite us and the youth we work with to “pick up our cross, deny ourselves and follow Jesus.” This is the kind of adventure that is compelling to passionate young people. I believe that program driven youth ministry that focuses on getting a kid to heaven when they die and concerns itself primarily with keeping our young people free from smoking, drinking, and premarital sex fails to represent the Great Good News of our Lord Jesus Ch...

Prayer Leader Interviewed Steve Loopstra on a “Developing a Culture of Prayer” PL ~ Steve, you recently led a workshop on "Developing a Culture of Prayer" ... Why are prayer leaders beginning to think about the need to develop a culture of prayer? I’m finding a genuine interest in the concept of a “culture of prayer” because it challenges us to look at prayer from a whole different perspective than we are used to. And I think a more Biblical view as well. Rather than seeing prayer as another “program” to run in the church, looking at prayer as a culture, takes us to a whole new way of looking at prayer, and how it is or is not a part of our church lifestyle. PL ~ Help us get our arms around this new concept - Define and describe "culture" ... Culture, simply defined, is the sum total of the lifestyles of a particular group of people. It involves not only our actions, but those unspoken ways that we communicate and interact with one anothe...

Who Should Be My Prayer Leader? As a pastor who wants to grow more prayer in your church, it is important to understand that to be successful you need to pull others alongside you to help. In fact, while you should stay involved in the growth of prayer at your church, selecting a prayer leader to oversee that growth is an important step. this person will be your legs and arms, developing the nitty gritty plan. But who do you pick? When most churches pick a prayer leader--one who will oversee taking prayer to the next level--they often think the logical choice is the strongest intercessor. It seems obvious that the person who prays the most and is most passionate about prayer should be the leader. But that is usually the wrong choice! While the prayer leader should have a heart for prayer, the most effective leader needs to possess leadership and organizational skills rather than be the strongest intercessor. People skills is also a good quality in a prayer leader. The Prayer Saturated ...

Prayer Leader interviewed Carolyn Fuqua, Prayer Ministry Coordinator @ Biltmore Baptist Church Prayer Leader ~ Carolyn, how long have you been Prayer Ministry Coordinator and what was the status of prayer when you stepped into that position? For several years I had worked with the Pastor as a volunteer with the Prayer Ministry then came on staff January 2001. The Prayer Ministry, at that time it was the God's 600, was strong when I came on staff. This was due to the fact that our Pastor had given great leadership to it, and people were excited to pray and watch God great things in our midst. We had watched as Biltmore moved from the depths of despair to getting a glimpse of glory as God worked and moved among our people. Our continuing goal is to recruit people to pray in small groups, as prayer partners over the telephone, or at home, using a Quarterly Prayer Guide. The Prayer Guide keeps us all focused on the same prayer prompts – the church objectives, ministries, missi...

Prayer Leader interviewed Bill Allison of Cadre Ministries PL ~ Bill, your website states "While Cadre Ministries will bring training to any size church, its special concern is the church with one pastor (and many volunteer leaders)." Why this particular emphasis? Larger churches have an inequitable voice in America because in America bigger means successful. You can question that all you want, but that's the way it is. While we don't have an ax to grind with bigger churches simply because they are larger, we want to champion what God is doing in the regular church. (I refuse to say "smaller" church--because it implies inferiority in our culture--and I don't believe they inferior at all.) Since our ministry focuses on helping churches train volunteers to do ministry (Ephesians 4:11-12), we LOVE the regular church because they already know that the key to effective ministry is training volunteers! Larger churches can hire staff. Good for them. But we hone...