"We believe Prayer Shop is uniquely positioned to make an impact on the prayer lives of individuals and churches," said Prayer Shop Publishing director, Jonathan Graf, CPLN's president, who has more than 15 years experience in the Christian publishing industry. "The reason," Graf continued, "is our strong connection to local churches." Prayer Shop's product selection team is made up of Graf, America's National Prayer Committee chairman, Dave Butts, and Dr. Alvin VanderGriend, the author of Love to Pray!, which has sold 60,000 copies in less than three years and developer of 40 Days of Prayer, a prayer initiative that is revitalizing hundreds of churches. "Our team is not sitting in an editorial office trying to discern what will sell" said Graf. "We are in churches almost every weekend teaching on prayer. We see first hand what people need and want."

Prayer Shop Publishing's retail side has been selling products for two years through www.prayershop.org, a webstore with more than 400 prayer products. It will continue to sell others' praye resources, but will now also produce its own products.

This summer will see the first official book releases by Prayer Shop Publishing (Love to Pray! has been published by Harvest Prayer Ministries for the past three years). KidsGap: Teaching Children to be Kingdom Intercessors by Jenny Almquist will be released in June. KidsGap is a 12-week curriculum to teach children to pray for kingdom concerns. A version that was previously self-published by Almquist has had a significant impact on multiple churches. A Year of Prayer Events for Your Church by Sandra Higley will also be released this summer. This resource will provide the compete details for 15 different prayer events a church could hold. The idea is to do one a month. Everything from prayer breakfasts, concerts of prayer, to all nights of prayer will be included. The third book, Praying Like a King, will be released in August. It is a small group or Sunday school class Bible study by Dave and Kim Butts that looks at the prayers of Old Testament kings and then the John 17 prayer of the King of Kings, Jesus.

Upfront: Training Prayer Teams for Ministry, a DVD teaching series on training individuals to offer healing prayer to hurting people taught by Dave Butts, will be released in May. It retails for $25.

Prayer Shop is also looking for book and booklet ideas and manuscripts. You can send your ideas or proposals to Jonathan Graf at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it or

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