CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
PA IPHC Prayer Leader’s Training Conference
What a great experience to spend time with
Bishop Dale Adams of the Pennsylvania International
Pentecostal Holiness Conference, his pastors and
prayer leaders. Many of them had read the book,
Transforming Your Church into a House of Prayer and
watched the companion video series. Doug shared
with
pastors
and
church leaders as they
consider launching an
ongoing prayer training
effort, Prayer Leaders
Continuing Education
with Project Pray.
Miami Pastor’s Conference / Pastor’s Consultation
Pastors from across Miami gathered for their 20th
Annual Prayer Summit. Hundreds of pastors have
participated in the tri-lingual event each year. As a
result, eleven prayer groups of almost 200 pastors
meet weekly throughout the two-county area from
Homestead to North Miami. They are prayer-walking
the city with powerful results. Former cult centers are
now churches, as well as, former bars. Little by little,
they are impacting the city of Miami and south Florida.
These prayer summits have reached beyond the
pastors - to their spouses, and to the city, gathering
as many as 15,000 people in a March for Jesus allday prayer rally. Now the pastors are considering
moving forward with a city-impact process that
reaches the marketplace, intercessors, and brings their
congregations together. Your city can do the same
thing!
Learn more about the city-wide process at pc2ln.org.
Asheville, NC
Pastors and prayer leaders from the Asheville, NC
area invited Doug to share on the prayer process. In
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a recent gathering, hundreds joined in a weekend of
prayer and unity. Now the goal is to move from an event
to a process of connection and ongoing training.
Leaders from the city connected in a consultation
via conference call on the city-prayer movement with
Doug Small. Doug works with the Mission America
Coalition and the National Prayer Committee in
establishing Prayer-Connect Community Leadership
Network (PC2LN). These ‘prayer councils’ connect
people of prayer across the city/county, but they are
more than prayer efforts. They are a foundation for a
prayer-care-share strategy. pc2ln.org.
East Tennessee
What a great time
at the Harriman Camp
Meeting. Doug shared
on Sunday morning and
evening. Other speakers
for the event were Dr. Mark
Williams and Dr. Tim Hill. Thanks to Pastor Jeff Blackburn
and this growing church for a vision to reach out to their
community with this annual spiritual life event.
Texas
More than a hundred pastors and leaders gathered
for an equipping evening at the Church of God
campground in Weatherford, TX. The following day,
a hundred or so tarried for a six-hour prayer meeting.
Using the ‘prayer summit’ model, participants prayed
and sang, read scripture and repented before God. Maps
of Texas were laid on the floor and many wept over the
state for revival through a virtual prayer walk across
Texas calling out the names of cities where churches
needed to be planted. Thanks to Bishop Les Higgins,
Texas Church of God Administrative Bishop for the
vision for such a day of prayer and thanks to state prayer
leader, Pastor Steve Molten.