Dear Friend of Church Prayer Leaders Network:
May the Lord bless you this Christmas season! We are so honored to have been able to minister to you this past year! 2024 has been a year of change at CPLN and Prayer Connect. While some of it is painful—i.e., the announcement that our January 2025 issue would be the last issue of Prayer Connect as a magazine—the Lord is in it all, transitioning us toward new ways of growing prayer in churches and the lives of individuals. Here are three transitions we are making in 2025:
First Prayer Connect will continue, but as an email blog rather than a 32-page magazine. It will still inspire, equip and challenge believers, prayer leaders and churches toward deeper levels of prayer. We will now deliver content twice a month rather than once every 3 months.
Second, we will continue to grow a younger audience. God is at work among GenZs in America. We want to minister to that wave of Awakening and Revival! Our newest book, The Praying Youth Ministry is an example of our increased focus toward this younger audience. The blog we have run the past year, “Prayer Hacks” is another.
Third, while we will continue equipping prayer leaders in local churches, we will increase our reach to pastors. A new blog, “The Praying Pastor” will launch in January. This will have both content on the personal prayer life of a pastor and on how to grow prayer in their church. Its unique feature is that it will be specifically for pastors, written by pastors. Currently Dr. Kie Bowman, Dr. Dave Earley, Rev. Dana Olson, Rev. Richard LaFountain and Rev. Tom Swank are on board to write regularly for this blog. All have years of experience pastoring praying churches and mentoring other pastors in prayer!
We are excited at what God has laid before us! Would you join us in this excitement by praying for us, by continuing to support us through reading our emails, purchasing our resources, . . .
and by considering a gift to help us through these transitions. We estimate that we need about $15,000 to help us cover all the transitioning costs and setting up our new content delivery systems.
Partnering with us with a gift will both enable us to finish the year strong financially and increase our reach of ministering prayer into churches and the lives of everyday believers. These days we need a growing army of believers who step up as intercessors for our churches, communities, nation, and world. A financial gift of any size to Church Prayer Leaders Network will help expand the reach of these valuable resources and help churches disciple their people into deeper levels of prayer!
Please use the enclosed envelope to send a check (made out to Church Prayer Leaders Network), or go to prayerleader.com/donate to give online. Would you consider making your gift monthly?
Thanks again for your prayers and your generosity in giving. We believe God will enable us to continue to minister through our resources and online for years to come.
Toward a Prayed for Church,
Jonathan Graf
President, Church Prayer Leaders Network
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