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October 2011 Newsletter

School of Prayer

Sunday, October 16 from 2-6 p.m.

Mesa Campus, Higher Grounds Café

Dean Trune, a nationally-recognized leader on the subject of prayer, who teaches all over the nation and world, will be our guest presenter for the October School of Prayer.

Central's Prayer Ministry offers the School of Prayer quarterly to provide information on relevant prayer topics as well as opportunity to implement what you've learned.

Dean has appeared here at Central in several venues previously, including other Schools of Prayer, and has been a favorite with Central audiences. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor's degree in business administration and a master's in engineering, well prepared for a career at General Motors. After 12 years with GM, however, Dean's heart turned to ministry, and he became campus minister at Michigan State, where he served for the next 11 years. Since 1995, Dean has led Impact Ministries International (www.ImpactingTheWorld.com), establishing campus ministries around the world and conducting seminars to help people connect with God more intimately.

His presentation will include

Prayer Health Assessment: How to Assess My Prayer Health
How to Organize My Prayer Life In Order to Join Jesus in His Mission
Listening to God

A snack and study materials are provided FREE, but registration is required. No child care is available for the Schools of Prayer. A love offering will be taken. Register Here

Though this is the sixth year we will be offering Central a 24-7 Prayer experience (actually lasting longer than seven days), we have several firsts this year: 1) We will move the 24-7 to four campuses, and 2) In Queen Creek, our venue will be outside!

Each year, God has used it to touch more lives and blessed it with more rave reviews. You don't want to miss being a part of what He will do this year!

The theme this year comes from the New Testament Book of James. Nine stations will direct your prayer from a focus on verses and teachings found in James. The last stop in the 24-7 Prayer Room will be for blogging your experience. Each interactive station will be created to help you think and pray in new ways. During the hour you commit to pray, you enter each station and do what the station directs for prayer and meditation or activity. In the process, you will find yourself entering into a richness of prayer and relationship with God that most people don't often reach.

In previous years, even those who have admitted to never having prayed more than five minutes at a time before came away amazed at the impact of an hour spent in prayer and conversation with the Lord. Just one hour can make a meaningful difference in your relationship with God and in the areas on which you focus your prayers. Here's the line up of times and locations from which you may choose: Read More Here.

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Prayer at Eleven 11

Prayer must be missional. What do I mean by that? Well.... many times God places something in our hearts to pray about; maybe a loved one or something we believe should happen. But praying by itself may not be enough. Sometimes God wants us to pray and act.

That is exactly what happened at ASU not long ago. The students had been praying for the campus and that God would reclaim ASU. They even did several 24-7's, some as long as 50 days, seeking God for ASU.

One of the female students began to sense that God wanted her to pray for a permanent place to house the 24-7. The reason this was so critical was that although they were allowed to do the 24-7's, they were not given a consistent location. They had to move the event from one spot to another on campus -sometimes even multiple times. This made it hard to publicize and difficult for students to attend.

So they prayed for weeks and then acted. They found out the schedule of the president of the of the school and looked for a place where they could approach him on the topic. They found a specific day that he used a certain elevator and they moved. The student got on the same elevator and had just 35 seconds to make her pitch, which she did. The President agreed to give the Christian students a consistent place to have their 24-7 prayer for the campus.

Eleven 11 Team Eleven 11 was a missional event. It was an opportunity to bring students and adults together to pray for transformation in our schools and communities. It gave us the unique opportunity to pray in 11 pubic schools across the state of Arizona for 26 hours in each school. There were worship bands, times of prayer, and even times of service where we did projects around the school, giving us the chance to share the love of Christ.

It is time for prayer to get beyond our church walls and get out into the schools, work places and class rooms in our communities. Eleven 11 was a great start at this and I am glad we had the chance to be involved.

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POLL RESULTS ABOUT PRAYER

Cell phone interviews with 911 (nine hundred and eleven) randomly selected voters yielded some interesting information about what Americans believe regarding prayer and healing, and more. For the results, click here.

PRAYER AT THE POLE - GLOBAL DAY OF STUDENT PRAYER

Students around the world gathered on school campuses for the "See You at the Pole" prayer event on the last Wednesday of September. This annual prayer observance began in Texas in 1990, and now includes millions of students. Read more at standard.net

DID PRAYERS RESULT IN A DOWNGRADE FOR HURRICANE IRENE?

Hurricane Irene could have been much worse. Did God weaken it because people prayed? Read this examiner.com article.

A 9/11 PRAYER THAT A MARINE WOULD FIND SURVIVORS IN THE RUBBLE OF THE TOWERS

This remarkable story was published some months after 9/11. Written in it there is a key line that makes it very clear that prayer makes a difference: "Then he drove to church. He asked the pastor and parishioners to say a prayer that God would lead him to survivors. A devout Christian, Karnes often turned to God when faced with decisions." Read this amazing story.

PRAYER AT GROUND ZERO - YOUTH WITH A MISSION MANNED PRAYER STATIONS FOR THOSE WHO CAME TO 9/11 MEMORIAL

There was a great deal of controversy regarding Bloomberg's ban of formal public prayer by clergymen at the opening of the 9/11 Memorial. However, despite the lack of public prayer, Youth with a Mission manned prayer sites as close to the event as possible. Read more in this article at the Christianpost.com

PRAYER AT THE PENTAGON MEMORIAL

The Pentagon Memorial provides an intimate setting and an ideal place for prayer. The way this story ends is particularly inspiring to those who value and participate in prayer for others. Click here to read this story by Shannon Young, staff writer for nashuatelegraph.com.

THE DAY AFTER 9/11: MAX LUCADO RECALLS A NATION AT PRAYER

In this article at foxnews.com, Christian author Max Lucado writes, "Ironic. Osama Bin Laden intended to bring America to her knees, and he did-we prayed." Take a moment to Read the full article; it reminds us how important prayer was during the days that followed the horrific events of 9/11/2001-hopefully, it also motivates us to say a prayer of thanks to our Lord for His protection from our enemies-and to pray that our nation will turn to Him now, as we did then.

A STOLEN TRUCK, A BIBLE, AND A PRAYER REQUEST

It's a rare occasion when a would-be thief risks being caught to return what he or she has taken, but when this truck was returned, the thief left a short note. Read more.

VETERANS FIGHT A LEGAL BATTLE REGARDING PRAYER AND CENSORSHIP

After local veterans and volunteer groups entered a legal battle with Houston National Cemetery officials for attempting to ban the words Jesus and God during funeral services, a settlement was reached. Read More in an article from chron.com.

FOR SALE: A BIBLE THAT'S BEEN TO THE MOON AND BACK

The Book that tells us how to pray and Who we are to pray to was onboard during the Apollo 14 voyage to the moon. Although the Word of God hasn't yet been preached to all nations, it has been to the moon and back. This article from cnn.com doesn't have a lot to say about prayer, but you might find it interesting to know a few facts about how the Creator's Word was carried to the moon He so strategically suspended in space to serve as the earth's primary night-light. Read more.

On Our Knees for Central

The church, like the individuals who comprise it, is in constant need of prayer. Please join us as we ask for God's guidance, help and blessing concerning the following: Read more here.