One of the best ways to jump start people into a deeper level of prayer is to encourage them through a conference. Many of you attend our regional or national conferences, some churches spending thousands of dollars to do so. While we want to continue challenging you to come to our events, have you ever thought of bringing an event to your area? Most of our regional conferences are planned due to an invitation from the hosting church, not us seeking a location.

What Does it Take?

There are three possible conferences you can host.

1. An individual speaker conference.
The CPLN and our parent ministry Harvest Prayer Ministries have 13 different speakers who can facilitate a prayer conference. These conferences are put on and expenses covered by your church. In a sense you are paying to bring in a speaker for a prayer weekend. Expenses may vary, based on travel and housing expenses and agreed upon honorarium. Each speaker has slightly different requirements. You can pick a speaker either by topic or closeness to you. The speakers are listed below, with their location and whether or not they travel nationally or regionally. Click on their names and an email window will pop up.

CPLN
Jonathan Graf, Indiana, National
Phil Miglioratti, Chicago, National
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Dennis and Betty Jo Conner, Dallas, TX, National
Ginny Kisling, San Jose, CA, Regional

Harvest Prayer Minsitries Teachers
David and Kim Butts, Indiana, National
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Alvin VanderGriend, Washington, National
Ren Vandesteeg, San Antonio, TX, National
Lisa Flake, Indiana, National
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2. A CPLN Regional Conference
A church asks to host a regional event that will be advertised by the CPLN nationally. The CPLN brings in at least two speakers to provide keynotes and workshops. The church provides a worship team, a local logistics planning committee, volunteers, and its facilities free of charge (no room rental, hourly pay for technicians, etc.). The church also focuses on inviting other local churches and does promotion in its city. There are two possible funding plans for this kind of conference:

Plan A. (The most popular) Much like having a speaker come in, the host church pays CPLN $2,000. This is due several months ahead of the conference. They pay no other expenses to CPLN. CPLN pays its own travel and hotel expenses, and covers speaker honorariums. The CPLN makes the rest of what it needs to put on the conference through registration fees. Here's the great benefit for the host church: because it paid $2,000, the host church's members can come to the conference just for the cost of lunch on Saturday. The $2,000 is in essence scholarshiping its people.

Plan B. The host church provides its facilities free, pays CPLN $1,000, but its people pay a significantly reduced registration fee (Usually 40-50% off or $20-$25). We will only agree to this plan if there is a strong CPLN membership base in a church's area.

With CPLN Regionals, we need a church that can handle at least 300 people in its sanctuary, and has enough rooms to have 4-6 workshops.

3. Host an Annual National Convention
We are currently looking for sites for 2009 and 2010 (most likely early June). While we are currently considering either metro Kansas City or metro Indianapolis, we could be wooed anywhere. We have the following requirements.

• The church and it senior pastor are sold out to wanting this event in their facility.
• The church's sanctuary could handle at least 2,000 people (we open the evening sessions to the public)
• Enough CE rooms/meeting rooms to handle 1,000-1,200 people
• Enough space for ministry booths, breaks, etc.
• Reasonably modern technology available
• Willing to host free of charge (If we break even, we always give a financial gift to the church)
• Within 30 minutes of a major airport
• Within 5-10 minutes of 250-350 hotel rooms

What does the church get (besides a few headaches)? The pleasure of blessing its region and churches with a national, major conference featuring powerful speakers and worship. A chance to expose its people to wonderful teachers who will inspire them toward greater levels of prayer, which will take your church deeper toward becoming a house of prayer.

If you are at all interested in the possibility of hosting any of these conferences, please contact either the individual speaker or This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it .