PROJECTS 

The National Day of Prayer
www.ndptf.org 

The National Day of Prayer is celebrated on the first Thursday in May. Before 1988, it was up to the President to call the nation to a day of prayer. But led by the efforts of the National Prayer Committee and then chairman Vonette Bright, in 1988 President Ronald Reagan signed into law that the first Thursday in May would be the day of prayer each year. The National Day of Prayer Task Force, led by director Shirley Dobson and executive director Brian Toon, oversees the events around the nation on this day.

Global Day of Prayer - USA
www.gdopusa.com 

We have been invited to join the rest of the world in prayer! Beginning in 2000 with a vision for uniting believers in South Africa in a day of prayer and repentance a movement has swept across Africa which resulted in 22 million believers praying together in all 56 nations on the continent. Now our brothers and sisters in Africa have asked the world to join them for a Global Day of Prayer on Pentecost, May 2, 2007. America's National Prayer Committee is promoting and encouraging Americans to join in on this historic day in the history of God's people. At the October 2004 International Prayer Committee meeting in Thailand, seventy prayer leaders from each of the major regions of the world, met to consult and plan for the Global Day of Prayer. Among these were several members of America's National Prayer Committee. These leaders represent networks that affect tens of millions of Christians. The commitment to proceed was re-confirmed by these leaders as was the conviction that the Global Day of Prayer process should continue each year until 2010, in order to build momentum and fill the earth. This plan was announced and promoted to the nearly 1700 international leaders gathered for the Lausanne Conference on World Evangelization meeting nearby.

Nationalprayer.org
www.nationalprayer.org 

God is doing so much in so many places across America and around the world that need to be known. This website was formed to be a communication hub to provide support and direction, news and testimony to what God is doing and to call Christians from across the nation to be in unified, focused prayer. It is a tool to help you find resources, ministries and events which will help you grow in your relationship with God through prayer. Search the pages throughout and you'll see how God is bringing His people together in the greatest prayer movement in history.

Task Force on Theological Education 

The Task Force on Theological Education was formed in 2005 as a result of a discussion at a prayer conference. The discussion, between a number of prayer ministry heads, related to the lack of prayer education provided to ministerial students in Bible colleges and seminaries. Most of the participants had seminary educations, and none had ever had a course on prayer- personal or corporate- while in seminary.

Out of that discussion the task force was formed, and this group began looking at ways to make seminaries and Bible colleges aware of this desperate need. Many pastors start their ministries without a clue as to how to lead a church prayer meeting effectively, how to lead a board in seeking the Lord on a difficult decision, how to disciple in prayer.

The first recommendation to come from theTask Force was to provide a potential curriculum or resource to professor- either to use as a primary text book, or a supplemental one in ministry level courses. The first outcome was the publication of "Giving Ourselves to Prayer: An Acts 6:4 Primer for Ministry." Dr. Dan R. Crawford serves as the chair of the Task Force.

Praying Pastors Project
www.prayingpastors.com

The Praying Pastors Project is a revolutionary prayer initiative that creates a network of ministries, individuals and business owners who want to enrich the prayer lives of those in their local communities. The project will create a network of volunteer coordinators that will solicit funds from donors in order to underwrite the costs of getting the book “Giving Ourselves to Prayer” and other prayer resources to all the pastors in the United States.

PARTNERS 

The Denominational Prayer Leaders Network

The DPLN is made up of prayer leaders from more than 40 denominations. The purpose of the DPLN is to encourage and assist Christian denominations and fellowships of churches in mobilizing and training their congregations and members to pray for effective ministry, spiritual awakening, and world evangelization, and to work cooperatively with each other toward this end.

Church Prayer Leaders Network
www.prayerleader.comm 

Vision: To equip every church in every city to become an effective, joyful “house of prayer for all nations” (Isaiah 56:7). Mission: To serve the local church prayer leader (pastor or designate), empowering him or her to initiate, strengthen, and expand the prayer life of that congregation to the glory of Jesus Christ. Strategy: To provide a strategic network that empowers local church prayer leaders to fulfill their calling. CPLN began as the National Association of Local Church Prayer Leaders as a ministry of Pray! magazine. CPLN, now on its own, focuses solely on resourcing the prayer leaders in congregational ministry.

An Urgent Appeal
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In San Francisco in January, 1998, nearly forty denominational leaders, on behalf of the 400 members of Mission America, signed a newly issued "Nationwide Call to Prayer to the Church in America." Subsequently, The Call was published as a full-page ad in USA TODAY, signed by denominational leaders such as Bishop George McKinney (Church of God in Christ), Robert Watson (Salvation Army), Thomas Trask (Assembly of God), Robert Reccord (Southern Baptist Convention), William Hamil (Evangelical Free Church), and ministry leaders such as Billy Graham, John Perkins, Paul Cedar, Bill Bright, Jesse Miranda, Ron Sider, and over one hundred other national Christian leaders. Since then it has circulated widely throughout the body of Christ. The Call has two parts: "A Call to Extraordinary Prayer" and "A Call to United Action." It sets forth consensus on an agenda for prayer and calls for collaboration in mobilizing concerted prayer. The focus of The Call is corporate revival. As such, it provides a major step toward the document you now hold. This newer document, An Urgent Appeal to Christian Leaders in America for Consensus and Collaboration on the Biblical Nature and Hope of Corporate Revival, is designed to bring about even deeper levels of consensus and collaboration around the focus of The Call which reads in part: In recognition of our absolute dependence on God; the moral and spiritual challenges facing our nation; our national need for repentance and divine intervention; our great hope for a general awakening to the Lordship of Christ, the unity of His body, and the sovereignty of His Kingdom; the unique opportunity that the dawn of a new millennium presents to us for offering the Gospel of Christ to everyone in our nation-- We strongly urge all churches and all Christians of America to unite in seeking the face of God through prayer and fasting, persistently asking our Father to send revival to the church and spiritual awakening to our nation, so that Christ's Great Commission might be fulfilled worldwide in our generation. In the spirit of The Call and with its vision, the National Revival Network of Mission America has drafted, with input from nearly 100 national Christian leaders, An Urgent Appeal

STRATEGIC ALLIANCES 

Mission America Coalition
www.missionamerica.org 

The Mission America Coalition is helping mobilize Christian leaders and individual Christians to collaborate together to reach America with the love and grace of Jesus Christ. Our mission statement is "The whole Church taking the whole Gospel to the whole nation - and to the world." Through encouraging Christians to pray for, care for and share Jesus Christ with every person, the Coalition emphasizes spiritual unity, evangelism and revival. Spiritual Unity MAC understands that the task of evangelism is one in which we must work together. The harvest is indeed “plentiful” and one which no single ministry or individual can hope to accomplish alone. By working together we honor our Lord’s prayer in John 17:21 “that all of them might be one, Father, just as You are in Me and I am in You. May they also be in Us so that the world may believe that You have sent Me.” Our unity points people to Jesus Christ. Facilitating and Encouraging Evangelism MAC encourages national and regional Christian leaders, churches, parachurch organizations and individuals to work together to share the love and grace of Jesus Christ throughout our nation. Through evangelism initiatives, living a lifestyle of evangelism, proclamational events and many other ways, the Coalition equips Christians to be obedient to the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19). Revival Emphasizing revival, MAC has helped summon the body of Christ to personal and corporate renewal through concerted, extraordinary prayer in communities, congregations and homes (e.g. The National Prayer Accord). Throughout this effort, Christians are being called to become accountable to one another in a way that is marked by holiness, godliness and kingdom-centered prayer. Global Ministries MAC partners are also involved in reaching out through international ministries - encouraging Churches and Christians to expand their emphasis on global missions.