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Exciting New CPLN Publication on the Horizon |
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Help to Disciple Your People
As a prayer leader, I bet you would love to have something that helps you in a highly practical
way to disciple your people and grow your church into becoming a house of prayer. If only there
were something that helps you in all aspects of growing prayer—encouraging leadership about
prayer’s important, training kids and young people, men and women, providing prayer guides and
ideas for prayer events and prayer meetings—all rolled into one resource.
The CPLN has been mulling that over and praying about that for the past three years. We believe
the time is right to produce The Praying Church, a monthly publication with the mission of
discipling the entire church.
Each month The Praying Church will have 16 pages of practical help specifically targeted to a
segment of your church. There will be a section for men, pastors, prayer leaders, worship
leaders, youth, kids, women, outreach, missions, and more. Some of these sections will be each
month and others will rotate and appear every other month. There will be two monthly prayer
guides—one scripture, based on a specific book of the Bible (to teach your congregation to pray
God’s Word) and the other a general guide that can be used in any church (to teach them to focus
prayer on expanding God’s kingdom).
The publication will be available both in a print form and a PDF format. Here’s the interesting
part: it will be printed in black and white. Why? So you can photocopy it easily. That’s the
idea. Every section will be written to a different target audience. A church orders one or two
subscriptions for key people. Paying for a subscription entitles them to make as many copies for
their own church as they need. The church makes enough copies of each section to give to the
people who the section is intended for. Men’s ministry regularly distributes discipleship things
on prayer to its men, youth to teens, etc.
Because of the freedom to copy, the annual subscription price might seem high (probably $42-$45 a
year—members will receive a discount) but remember, in one resource you will receive valuable
discipleship material for your entire church.
Our target is to have a prototype this summer—possibly by Empowered, then begin regular
publication either in October or January. Our main hurdle is funding. We need to raise an
additional $15,000-$25,000 before we can launch. We are currently approaching a few individuals
and foundations requesting funding. But I remember when I was involved in developing Pray!
magazine that a huge blessing came from the unexpected gifts we received. Therefore, not only are
we sharing about this new publication to get you anticipating its launch, but we want to give
people an opportunity to give to this project. There may be some of you who can give thousands .
. . but every $25, $50, or $100 gift is also important and will add up quickly to get us where we
need to be.
If you would like to donate, simply make a check out to the Church Prayer Leaders Network (or
CPLN) and write “The Praying Church” in the memo line or in a letter with the check. You will
receive a tax deductible receipt for your donation. Each donor will receive a free copy of the
prototype and any gift of $50 or more will receive a year’s subscription. It is important to
remember, however, that this is a donation. You are not buying a subscription. The money will be
held in a fund specifically for The Praying Church. If after two years the necessary funds have
not come in yet, and it is determined that the moneys are needed elsewhere, we reserve the option
to use them.
Send donations to:
CPLN
619 Washington Ave
Terre Haute, IN 47802
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December 2007