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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES OFFERED BY PROJECT PRAYTHE PRAYER TRAINER’S NETWORK Congregational prayer teams connected for on-going prayer training. Learn the purpose of prayer, implement the process and equip the people.Link: projectpray.org/prayer-trainer-program/

ALIVE PUBLICATIONSBooks, study guides, resource kits and more to engage your prayer team and expand your prayer ministry. Link: alivepublications.org

SCHOOLS OF PRAYER AND CONFERENCESHost a School of Prayer Prayer Impact Weekend, or Multi-Church Conference. A variety of training focused on learning, experiencing and leading in the area of prayer is available.Link: projectpray.org/school-of-prayer

PRAYER COACHINGVirtual personal prayer coaching sessions, prayer leadership team consultations and local church coaching to encourage and strength your prayer life or jumpstart your church prayer team.Link: projectpray.org/prayer-coaching

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A Reformation of Transformational and Missional Prayer

It was the desire of Jesus that the Temple be a house of prayer for the nations. Discover seven things that must change if the church is going to embrace a new reformation:1. The preached Word must also become the

prayed Word.2. Prayer must be modeled by church leadership. 3. We must practice prayer publicly. 4. The practice of corporate prayer should enrich

the personal, private, at-home, daily habit of prayer.

5. We need a better theology of prayer.6. We must embrace the discipline of prayer until

we again know the delight of prayer. 7. We need to identify intercessors – those who have

a special call to prayer and grace to pray.

P. Douglas Small is a Bible teacher and prayer leader. He has served as a pastor and on the faculty of a number of accredited Bible Colleges. He is an Ordained Bishop and International Director of Prayer Ministries with the Church of God. He is the founding president of Alive Ministries: PROJECT PRAY, teaching and training through schools of prayer and consultations for congregations and cities, working with pastors, vocational Christians and intercessors. He is chair of the PCCNA Prayer Commission and a member of the Executive Leadership team of the Denominational Prayer Leaders Network. Doug is married to Barbara Ruth with whom he shares five children and eighteen grandchildren.

P. DOUGLAS SMALL FOREWORD BY STEVE HAWTHORNE

TRANSFORMING YOUR CHURCH INTO A HOUSE OF PRAYER REVISED EDITION P. D

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Transforming YOUR Church INTO A HouseOF PrayerREVISED EDITION

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THE SEVEN MARKERS OF A PRAYING CHURCH

1. Led by a praying pastor, aided by a prayer leader-ship team, we commit to bring prayer to the heart of all we do! “Without Christ, we can do nothing!” Without prayer, we fail to invite Him into the process. Therefore, our resources – spiritual and material – our plans and programs, we will bathe in prayer.

2. We will encourage at-home, daily, Jesus-be-Jesus-in-me praying. We will reestablish our personal and family altars. We will embrace the discipline of daily times with God, with one another as couples, and as families until daily prayer is a delight, and we take joy in spending private time with God. We will champion the idea of personal prayer rooms/closets.

3. We will call our congregation to regular prayer, with the goal of establishing a regular weekly prayer meeting for the entire church. We will make the

prayer meeting as important as Sunday morning singing and preaching. We will emphasize special days of prayer laced prayer into the fabric of the Sun-day worship service. We want a pervasive movement of prayer, not merely prayer activities. Eventually, we will offer numerous ways to connect in prayer – prayer groups, prayer chains, embedded intercessors for various ministries and more.

4. We will honor those who carry a special calling to pray – intercessors. We will identify intercessors, en-courage them, train them, team them, deploy them and debrief them. But we will not confine the inter-cessory ministry to this team; rather, we will see them as models for prayer, as those with white-hot hearts whom God has called to be at the hidden forefront of spiritual beachheads we are called to claim. We want a spirit of intercession to grip our entire church, a spirit of prayer – and particularly, prayer for others, selfless prayer, prayer for the lost, prayer for the na-tions, prayer for spiritual awakening!

5. We will engage in prayer evangelism, turning prayer outward onto the neighborhood, the city, state and nation, and we will adopt a mission field for prayer, one near and one far. We will pray for the harvest. We will seek to identify the people for whom God has made us most responsible, and we will begin the process of evangelism in prayer, look for ways to care, and steward the opportunities to share the gospel. We will employ the strategy of the ‘three Greats’ – we will pray, care and look for opportunities to share the good news.

6. We will offer regular training in the area of prayer – for our people, leaders, intercessors, prayer evange-lism, our youth and children, our families.

7. We will work toward the creation of a prayer room or center, a physical space dedicated to prayer at our church, and we will encourage the use of such a space by members and prayer groups. We will pro-vide resources for prayer that run through all our de-partments, until we have a praying church and not merely a prayer ministry.

$150Premier

• $200 product credit for resources in the Project Pray University Bookstore

• Insider-access to fresh teaching material monthly – podcasts, webinars, downloads

• Subscription-only teachings and training with P. Douglas Small and others.

• Submit your own articles for editor review to be included in the insider-access teaching materials

• FREE consultation with Doug Small and your prayer team

• Discount access to training and partici-pation in the 24/7 Prayer HOPE Line

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Complimentary Membership

You will be added to the PROJECT PRAY Prayer News Feed. • Awareness of all major national

prayer initiatives• Announcements of prayer

resources• Invitation to weekly prayer

conference calls

$75Basic

• Online community forum – invitation-only Facebook group

• 15% off prayer resources in the Project Pray University Bookstore

• Access to a directory of 100 prayer agencies

• Invitation to personal prayer coaching with Doug Small

• Practical resources to jump start your congregational prayer ministry

• FREE preview of School of Prayer video teachings

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THE MOVEMENT: A network of local prayer leaders who are on a journey to bring prayer to the heart of all they do.

THE PURPOSE: To encourage, challenge, inspire, and resource believers as they seek to motivate and mobilize their church toward deeper levels of prayer.

THE MISSION: To connect prayer leaders with something bigger than themselves, such as, national prayer initiatives, The Prayer Trainers Network, Prayerborne – Intercessor’s Alliance, etc.