Global Day of Prayer ~ USA

Planning Your Global Day of Prayer Activities

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Planning Ideas

10 Days of Prayer

View Prayer Guide (pdf)

1 Day Event

Event Planning Guidelines

Using the Prayer for the World

Prayer for the World

Last Year's Events

90 Days of Blessing

What God Is Doing

Mobilizing for the Ten Days of Continuous Prayer
May 17-26, 2007

A Local Coordinator’s Guide

This document is designed to help anyone mobilizing prayer for the ten days of continuous prayer. Many different kinds of leaders will find this document helpful. You may be a pastor, or a prayer leader of a particular church, or even a citywide servant who mobilizes prayer among many churches. You may be a full-time prayer mobilizer, or a missionary seeking to help local leaders, or perhaps a business leader trying to encourage more prayer. Hopefully any kind of leader will find practical ideas for any kind of setting.

Step One - Understand the Ten Days as part of the GDOP
Be sure to read through the prayer guide before making too many plans to publish it. You will be able to answer questions and make the best decisions if you have an awareness of its contents. On the 2007 GDOP CD you can find the ten day prayer guide in three different formats: in a pdf format in color (not suitable for printing), a Word document, or in a text file.

Three components of GDOP. As you know, the Global Day of Prayer is more than just one day. On Pentecost Sunday, May 27, 2007, there will be one day of united prayer. But it will be preceded by ten days of continuous prayer. And it will be followed by ninety days of blessing, or service among our communities. The ten days of prayer help begin to gather people, to connect churches and and to give many Christians a desire for the kind of things we’ll be praying on May 27. These three components is why you will sometimes see the numbers 10•1•90 displayed.

Basic parts for each day. Each day contains the following four parts: A topic, a scripture, specific concerns, and prayer points. The prayers have been prepared by an international group of prayer leaders working in conjunction with the International Prayer Council.

Simple biblical focus. The vision and prayer focus of the GDOP is for the glory of Christ and the blessing of the nations. For an even better grasp of the biblical grounds for each of the daily topics, read through the Ten Day User’s Guide, also found on the 2007 GDOP CD.

Step Two - Pray and plan with others
Gather other leaders to consider what God will have you do to mobilize many thousands or millions to be uniting in prayer during the ten days leading to Pentecost. Before the first and second GDOP events in 2005 and 2006, many millions of believers all over the world were called by their pastors and leaders to unite in prayer during the ten days leading to Pentecost. Here are some of the reasons they thought the effort was valuable for the event and well beyond the event.

The ten day effort helps:
a) Build relationships of cooperative prayer among the churches. These relationships can last for years beyond the event.
b) Teach Christians how to pray with scripture in relevant ways for critical needs.
c) Promote the GDOP event on Pentecost.
d) Give God an opportunity to guide people to step into specific works of mercy and blessing during the 90 days of blessing.
e) Clarify how sound the GDOP is in theology and focus. The ten day guide helps make it clear that the entire effort is centered on Christ, based firmly on the Bible, and focused on the challenges that we face, but in biblical hope.
f) Help Christians find ways to pray with persistence, often with a 24/7 pattern that works well in their setting.

Step Three - Publish the prayer guide
Find the best way to publish the prayer guide for your people. It can be as simple as photocopying a few dozen copies for your local church, or as involved as printing 100,000 copies.

The Global Day of Prayer service office is not providing published copies for the languages and countries that need them. Like everything else about the GDOP, everything is supported and carried out by local leaders. For example, in the USA and Canada, the guide is published by a ministry called WayMakers.

Special note for those in North America: The prayer guide is available from WayMakers at a very reasonable cost. Go to www.waymakers.org for more info.

Some countries, such as Finland, modified the artwork used in the USA. But in other countries, Hong Kong and Turkey, for example, designed their own graphic artwork. They not only translated the text into the local language, they created their own look and style.

Six steps to publish the prayer guide:
Step 1. Edit and adapt the text.
Step 2. Translate the text.
Step 3. Design the artwork.
Step 4. Print the guides.
Step 5. Promote and distribute the guides.
Step 6. Evaluate.

Publishing Step 1. Edit and Adapt
We ask that you do not make changes to the basic elements: the daily prayer topics, the selected scriptures, the daily list of concerns, and the prayer points. Apart from small changes necessary to avoid offense or confusion, please respect the integrity of the prayer guide. Much of the value of the ten days of prayer is that we will be uniting in prayer around the same needs and hopes.

The introductory material, however, can be adapted or shortened in a way that is fitting for your setting. For example, in one country, the reference to “a greater Pentecost” was deleted because of the concern expressed by a prominent leader. In another setting where the dominant church is of Orthodox tradition, the date of Pentecost is celebrated at another time. In their case, they minimized references to Pentecost. What this means is that you should feel some measure of freedom to adapt the prayer guide so that it invites the widest participation with the clearest focus on the glory of Christ and the blessing of the nations.

We encourage you to include the “Prayer for the World” that we will be praying together on Pentecost. Please do not make any changes to this prayer. This is the one prayer that everyone will read in prayer on May 27.

Publishing Step 2. Translate
Check first to see if it’s been done already. That information should be on the web site www.globaldayofprayer.com. If the translation has been already done, you can learn from the web site how to obtain the translation to publish in your area. Of course, find out how and if others may already be publishing what you need. Perhaps you can work together with people in other countries or cities.

If there is still need for translation please consider carefully if you are able to see that it is done in a quality way. The theological concepts can be tricky to translate well. Be sure that the person(s) you are enlisting to translate have the proven ability and the available time to get the job done by the deadline that you will need to set. Of course you should consider paying them for their work if that is appropriate in your setting.

Please make your translation available for other in different parts of the world. Communicate with the coordination office of the GDOP about your translation. They will be able to pass it on to others.

Publishing Step 3. Graphic Design
The files available on this disk will help you get started. The text and Word documents can be used or modified in many ways.

The small color pdf file is not of sufficient quality to have printed. The color design is available at no cost and can be modified for your setting. To use the color photos and files you will need to have a professional graphic artist prepare the artwork from files which are available by special internet connections. See the Prayer Guide Information and Guidelines file on this CD about how you can obtain those files.

The color files that you see on this CD have been prepared in Adobe Indesign Creative Suite and Adobe Illustrator software. They are very large files which are not on this CD. They are not compatible with Corel Draw or Microsoft Publisher or Quark Express. In some cases the Adobe Illustrator files can be modified on Corel Draw or Quark Express. See the Prayer Guide Information and Guidelines file on this CD for more information.

Publishing Step 4. Printing
Decide how you will reproduce copies. Most of the prayer guides around the world will be photocopied. But many millions will be printed, some in black and white, others in four color. Many will be published as small booklets, while others will be sheets of paper stapled together. Find the best format for your community.

What about the cost? Put together a reasonable estimate. Do not plan on giving the copies away. But be careful not to overestimate what you will receive in payment. People use what they value. And they value what they pay for. Ask churches and leaders to help cover the cost of printing in appropriate ways. Invite business leaders to contribute to the cost.

Be careful not to overprint. It will be better to run out of copies than to have expended funds for excess copies.

Publishing Step 5. Distribution
Encourage local church coordinators to act with their pastor’s approval to challenge and equip their church families to pray. Build a network of leaders who will influence their circles to participate in the best way. Use the distribution of the ten day prayer guides as a way of promoting the Pentecost event.

Publishing Step 6. Evaluate
Set a date that you will meet with others to consider how the effort went. What were the surprises? What could have been done differently? What do you think God is saying to you about the GDOP in 2008, or 2009, or 2010?

Please send a copy of your published prayer guide to the South African office of the GDOP. Let them know how many people you think participated in the ten days of prayer.

Step Four - Mobilize
The above six steps are about the practical matters of publishing. But most leaders would consider the heart of the matter to be calling people to pray.

Here are some of the models for mobilizing prayer that have already emerged in the first two years of the Global Day of Prayer:

Model One: Watches
Consider calling for around the clock prayer meetings or watches. The usual 168 hour week will need to be extended to 240 hours. Another way to do this is to invite a church to cover one of the days, and leave it to the church to pray during that day in whatever way they see fit. Perhaps they will have a prayer meeting in the evening, or they may set up a ten or twenty-four hour watch. In one city leaders quickly found many more than ten churches who wanted to cover one of the days. They kept adding churches to the list until they had forty or fifty churches, some of the days had six or seven churches. The organizers made efforts to let the churches know what other churches were praying with them.

Model Two: Meetings
In one large city with less than 1% Christians of any kind, there were only 29 Protestant churches. All 29 agreed to unite in prayer during the ten day effort in 2006. They organized three different prayer meetings for each of the ten evenings. Some churches with conveniently located buildings hosted more than once, but each of the 29 churches was entrusted with the responsibility to lead one of the prayer meetings.

Model Three: Prayer Rooms
In many cities there are dedicated prayer rooms. Sometimes they are part of international networks. Most of these leaders have been very happy to make the daily topics one of the primary points of prayer during the ten days. Sometimes the daily topic serves as a launching point for prayer. There are many styles and ways to invite this stream of united prayer to take part. Many churches have prayer rooms. Be sure they are equipped with the prayer guide.

Model Four: Add to existing prayer efforts
Many churches and mission agencies have prayer guides published for each week or month. With advance planning, many leaders are very happy to use the daily themes and topics of the GDOP ten day prayer guides as a way of framing prayer about their ministries or church families.

Model Five: Internet
A daily posting on web sites or even a daily email can convey the basic prayer information to many.

Model Six: Radio
Where there are Christian radio stations, it is often possible to arrange for short times of a 60 or 90 seconds to mention the daily topic, read the day’s scripture, and read a short prayer. You can find short prayers which have been carefully written in the User’s Guide for the Ten Day Prayer Guide. Or you can write your own. You can enlist known leaders or pastors to record the prayers weeks or months earlier.

Model Seven: Redirect existing prayer meetings
Invite pastors or leaders to focus their existing prayer meetings upon the theme that many millions will be praying on that particular day. Your best tool to help leaders guide people to pray in powerful ways with the topics of the day is the User’s Guide found on this CD or on the web site www.globaldayofprayer.com.

Be a Part of Global Day of Prayer via Your Phone

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Don't let anyone miss out on participating in the Global Day of Prayer! With a phone and a prayer, they can be a part of this event!

GREATER CALLING will once again offer a 24 Hour Global Conference Call for the Global Day of Prayer on June 4th for anyone who wants to connect via phone with others all around the world to pray. This is a perfect solution for those who cannot attend an event in person.

It's as easy as dialing a phone number. Training prayer leaders will be available each hour to manage the calls. Participants simply dial a phone number (see list below) and enter the passcode 777 at anytime on the GDOP to be joined with others from around. People can choose to actively participate or they can just listen in if they prefer.

GREATER CALLING hosted on 3000 callers last year on the GDOP and we have hosted global prayer calls for Day of Prayer for Peace of Jerusalem, Day of Prayer for Persecuted Church and National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for Katrina.

How Can You Help?

1) Volunteer a hour to be a prayer leader on a call
We have access to accommodate as many as 20,000 callers at any given time of the day, but we NEED leaders willing to lead up to 100 people in prayer for an hour in order to accommodate as many callers as possible. Greater Calling will provide all leader training and support. You just need a phone and a heart for prayer. Cell phones work fine!

Here is what one volunteer said about the experience"
"I would like to say that praying in a worldwide conference call was one of the most powerful times of prayer that I have ever experience. When I was asked to lead a group for an hour, I did not know what to expect, and I must admit that I was nervous. But praise God, wonderful intercessors from all over the country joined in, and the Holy Spirit took over. It became a precious time of joining together in one accord praying Biblical Holy Spirit inspired prayers." Pastor Barbara Yovino, Christian Hope Network

To volunteer, please sign-up on their website at www.greatercalling.org .

They would love to offer call in Spanish and other languages, so please indicate if you can lead in another language.

2) PUBLISH the dial-in numbers
The following numbers will be used for prayer callings starting at 00:00:00 GMT and continuing for 24 hours (8:00 PM Eastern Time 6/3 to 8:00 PM Eastern Time 6/4). People may dial in ANYTIME to one of the numbers to join a group in prayer. Please distribute these numbers in any announcements about GDOP ( church bulletins, flyers, website, etc.)

Call ANY of the numbers below to join a prayer call on The Global Day of Prayer:

1 (605) 990-0031
1 (605) 990-0032
1 (605) 990-0033
1 (605) 990-0034
1 (605) 990-0050
1 (605) 990-0051
1 (605) 990-0052

Enter the passcode 777# to be placed into a virtual prayer room with other callers. This is no charge for the conference call, but long distance charged may apply. You may use cell phones or calling cards or computer phones (Skype or Gizmo) to connect. Check out the Greater Calling website for ways to connect from international locations for free or for a very low cost. www.greatercalling .org .

Important Dates to Pray Over . . . + Videos

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The Global Day of Prayer Regional awareness campaign for Australia , New Zealand and Fiji will take place from 12 - 19 March 2006.

The Azuza Street Centenial Celebration will be held in the USA from 25th to 29th of April 2006.

Please click on the following link for the 2005 transformation video mms://64.34.177.164/globaldayofprayer/gdp2005.
wmv

Please click on the following link for the Graham Power invitation video mms://64.34.177.164/globaldayofprayer/graham
powerinvitation.wmv

Global Day of Prayer Summit - Jan. 28, 2006

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Vision for GDoP - TD Jakes and "Peace Plan" - Rick Warren
. . . Issues Discussed
Out of the context of worship and prayer there was discuss on the topics of structural organization, funding, relationship tests - Apostle's Creed helps to create a wide alliances.
o. Calgary - Catholic Priest was vital ingredient to unity of the whole church in the city.
o. Ireland - Splendid opening for God to work
o. Irag - connection Catholic Bishop
o. Start with relationships we have, rather than starting with Bishop
o. You cannot farther than your relationships will allow you. You cannot exceed the quality of your relationships. This is not just doing an event, it is loving relationships that will bind you together.
o. Develop a long range view and process of developing relationships.
o. Office of Ecumental
o. Where there has been histoical issues and trust is developed it is powerful on the other hand, it is difficult to move beyond the trust that exists.
o. Uniting with Catholics changes the GDoP - prayher between divided Christians is the heart of GDoP "Ut Unum Sent" ("That All May Be One") section 21-23 by Pope John Paul II.
o. Recognize that there will be fears and concerns to overcome.
o. Mike -- Cardinal George and Cardinal Rodriguez could be key to unity.
o. Recognize the venues that Catholics use and join them.
o. Create organizational teams from the start with diverse participation
o. Want to be careful that the relationships we build are not imposing on any expression, but be wise and move preemptively to work well.
o. Suggestion to catalog these relationships to be able to reference them
o. Paused to Pray around Mike for these strategic relationships

Funding Discussion

o. Calgary -- began with para-church organizations, had half of the funds before the event and a great offering for a budget of $80K; asked churches to budget for following years.
o. Church relations committee to work with them.
o. Various teams= worship, children, funds, prayer, promo, technology, logistics/facility, etc.
o. Partner with city, school, business to impact the community.
o. Give offering away with no strings attached.
o. People are tired of events, but will support efforts to give to comunity.
o. How to help fund the Internatinonal Broadcast:
- Send 10% of local offerings
- Some ministries have committed to give 10% to support Bob
- Pray - Feb 13, meetings with major donors 2/13, 2/14, 2/16-8; with National Religious Broadcasters 2/19. Graham Power and Bob Bakke will present vision and needs.
- Word not to fear for provisions, GDoP should be a giver (not a taker) to local churches.
- Give intercessors a specific time, targets and results for all prayer assignments.

Global Day of Prayer Summit - Las Vegas

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The Global Day of Prayer has interfaced with the National Prayer Committee in worship and prayer for Canyon Ridge Christian Church with others from the Church in the city region. God has shown up powerfully during the worship and prayer times. The setting has been set for many indivduals to attend the Summit from across North America.

Dave Butts president of the National Prayer Committee opened the Friday morning in prayer and welcomed all. Bob Bakke, the North America facilitator, unfolded the prophetic picture of what the Global Day of Prayer is walking into with many others from around the Globe what God is calling forth for the Earth at this time. The powerpoint overview of the vision of service, unity and the calling forth of the Church to praise and worship throughout the nation serving with humility and submission to one another in love as Christ loves us. The GDoP is NOT a program, but a Vision and a set of values.

The five year goal is to see 500 million in prayer for 10 days of 24/7 prayer up to Pentecost, one day of station prayer on Pentecost and 90 days of blessing after Pentecost - accessible to Billions throughout the Earth.

The Model is Acts 1:14 - with the focus on prayer which resulted in a Global audience. As as result God brought change to thousands through that one day of prayer and proclamation. Acts 2:42 indicates that after the outpouring of God's Spirit brought great blessing to the city and needy of the Global body who attended the Day of Pentecost. The blessings brought an integration of those present in the teaching, fellowship, breaking of bread, and prayers. And the city dwellers see what was taking place among them all and it impressed them, and God added to the number of those living there to the larger group.

Bob Bakke introduce the Global Day of Prayer Prayer Guide, produced by Steve Hawthorne of Waymakers. Copies can be ordered from Waymakers. It is anticipated that people from every time zone on earth will be using the Prayer Guide.

The Day of Prayer and Worship will call forth 200 - 500 million people into the presence of God. 90 Days after Pentecost the Church world wide is urged to bless our cities by meeting the needs of the poor, etc, with the gospel and meeting the physical needs of people, neighborhoods, and cities. How can we uniquely and creatively needs the needs of the city. Read Much More

Resources for Praise and Prayer

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Mark down the dates for the Global Day of Prayer 2006
10 Days of PrayerMay 25- June 4, 2006
1 Day of Stadium Events & BroadcastsJune 4, 2006
90 Days of BlessingJune 5 - September 3, 2006
5 Years - Culminating in 2010...toward a Greater Pentecost!

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Global Day of Prayer: January Summit

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GLOBAL DAY OF PRAYER: January Summit

January 10, 2006

Dear Joe,

YEAR ONE: Registered venues in 156 nations, an estimated 10,000 locations, 3 international broadcasts, 200+ No. American sites (38 States & 7 Canadian Provinces), 100s of millions involved, each site locally mobilized for the blessing of their nation & the peoples of the earth ... and the Lord is just beginning.

NO. AMERICAN SUMMIT: Las Vegas, Jan 27-28 Three Weeks Away

LOCATION: Canyon Ridge Christian Church, 6200 W. Lone Mountain Rd., Las Vegas, NV 89130 (www.canyonridge.org) HOTEL: Santa Fe Station Hotel Casino: 4949 North Rancho Drive, Las Vegas, NV 89130 (866) 767-7771 (toll-free). $54 Thursday, $139 for Friday night (yes, you read correctly. Its Las Vegas). Ask for The National Prayer Committee / GDOP block. You must call the hotel directly to make your reservations.

REGISTRATION: $50 / SCHEDULE & CONTENT: 9 AM Friday to 12 Noon on Saturday. 28 hours of new relationships, mission & vision, stories from around the globe, new promo materials, new prayer guide, CDs, DVDs, review strategies, testimonies, break out sessions, lessons learned, how to mobilize your community, funding, broadcasting strategies (TV, radio, Internet), the P.E.A.C.E. Plan, the Azusa Street Centenniel, Blogs, etc.

Visit Our Website Registration form. Forward this to others.

PRAY MAG, NRB & AZUSA STREET

Make plans to buy the March issue of "Pray Magazine" (www.navpress.com/Magazines/Pray!) in bulk. The whole of the issue is devoted to the Global Day of Prayer. The GDOP is the sponsor and host of Sunday morning plenary session at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention (NRB.org), Feb. 12. Also, the Azusa Street Centenniel (www.azusastreet100.com) is expecting 80,000 from all over the world and a national television audience to celebrate 100 years since the birth of the Charismatic/Pentecostal movements. The Centenniel has adopted the Global Day of Prayer as their next step after April 29th. Wow.

ORDER YOUR NEW GDOP PROMOTIONAL VIDEO FROM THE WEBSITE TODAY! www.gdopusa.com

Send a gift. Help us summon the earth!

WHO SHOULD ATTEND THE GDOP SUMMIT? Join with the leaders of the National Prayer Committee ... Pastors who pray globally & act locally, local pastor prayer groups, marketplace leaders, leaders of networks, leaders of intercessors, city reachers, and all those whose hearts are stirred with a vision of the cities of the earth aflame with the glory of Christ. Come as a team from your town or city. Every indication points to the most remarkbale movement in the history of the Church. Perhaps it is the beginning of the last great move of God before the return of Christ.

Under Mercy,

Bob Bakke

The Global Day of Prayer North America

email: rbakke@gdop-usa.com

Global Prayer

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Participants in the Global Day of Prayer are learning to pray globally: continent by continent, petitioning the presence and glory of God to come upon nations and cities to usher people into the Kingdom of God. http://globaldayofprayerna.blogspot.com/. Please join them in the work of the Kingdom.

Invest Two Days for the Glory of God across North America

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BY INVITATION ONLY

June 10, 2005

Dear Friend:

This is an invitation to invest two days for the glory of God across North America. It is by invitation only.

Within the past few days I have spent hours working on foundation proposals, finishing accounts, preparing for the National Prayer Committee’s annual audit, working on my house to sell for our impending move to Dallas, raising money, meeting with Rick Warren and his Purpose Driven Ministries team, meeting in Los Angeles with the Azusa Street 100 planners (www.azusastreet100.net) and preparing to fly to Paris for the GDOP summit meeting this week.

I am inviting you to be with me for the first Global Day of Prayer Summit. We have set aside Friday, August 12, & Saturday, August 13. We plan to meet in Dallas, TX. We are discussing a hotel near the airports where we can easily move in and out of. The meeting will go from 12 Noon to 12 Noon., including a session on Friday night. If you can attend, an agenda and info on accommodations will follow in a couple of weeks. We will each pay our own way. The names on the invitation list represent various constituencies needed to 1. Examine what happened this past May, and 2. Lay the groundwork for a much larger display of God’s hand in 2006. You are needed to help cast the vision for North America and how we play our part to mobilize the earth.

We will examine goals and objectives. We will hear stories of what happened across the earth and across our continent, and what is happening in places like Dallas (The 90 Days of Blessing). We will examine what happened from the perspective of small towns, a large cities, communications and network specialists, broadcasters, marketplace leaders and resource providers. We will discern what resources North American churches need for 2006, how they should be distributed, when they must be ready and examine models of how our efforts can be funded. We accomplished an amazing thing in such a short period this time around, but there were many things we can do better, many lessons learned and well-intended plans that went awry.

More importantly, we will pray together to discern the voice of God in all of this. We are on the verge of the greatest move of God. We need each other. Though there is a vision, a mission and agreed upon values, there is no central office telling people what to do. WE are the GDOP, driven along by the Holy Spirit.

PLEASE HIT REPLY AND TELL ME OF YOUR INTEREST AND/OR AVAILABILITY

Grace to you.

Bob

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Dr. Robert O. Bakke
North American Coordinator
Executive Producer of Global Broadcast

rbakke@GDOP-USA.com
rbakke@globaldayofprayer.com

PBS to Air Global Day of Prayer Report

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Dr. Bob Bakke

RELIGION AND ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY

Dallas prayer event draws thousands

The Global Day of Prayer from Dallas will be featured on PBS’s Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, Sunday, May 22. Check local listings in your area. See PBS Report for times where you live.

Grace to you all.

Dr. Robert O. Bakke
North American Coordinator
Executive Producer of Global Broadcast

The Christian Examiner Report

Dr. Bob Bakke: The Prayer Heard 'Round the World

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GLOBAL DAY OF PRAYER STARTED IN AFRICA
In July 2000 and in Febuary 2002 God gave two visions to Graham Power, a successful businessman and relatively new convert that Africa will become the "Light to the World." Over the years since those visions, an annual prayer event has exploded across Africa through Transformation Africa. In 2001, one stadium in Cape Town, South Africa was filled with 45,000 praying people. The next year it expanded to eight stadiums and 350,000 people. In 2003, 2.5 million gathered in 130 stadiums. On May 2, 2004, the movement exploded to ten times that many when 22 million rallied in prayer at more than 2,000 sites throughout the 56 nations of Africa. This year the African leaders have invited Christians around the world to pray with them in the first ever Global Day of Prayer. Click here for the rest of the story.

PLEASE PRAY FOR . . .

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* Christians all over the world to unite in prayer for an outpouring of God's Spirit, the healing of the nations and the salvation of the lost.

* God to provide the manpower, finances and resources for all plans and projects related to this event.

* God's supernatural protection over all aspects of security, communications, relationships and interactions.

* Persecuted Christians to be able to participate in the Global Day of Prayer.

Thank you SO MUCH ! Dr. Bob Bakke, USA GDoP, Coordinator

Global Day of Prayer on Pentecost Sunday Update - March 2, 2005

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The countdown has begun for the inaugural Global Day of Prayer (GDP), set for Pentecost Sunday, May 15, 2005. An estimated 200 million Christians from all of the 280 nations of the world, including those in the 10/40 Window, will unite in prayer to ask God to bless the nations so that the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord (Hab.2:14).

Over the last five years, God raised up many groups and networks of Christians to pray for the world. GDP is being coordinated by the International Prayer Council, Transformation Africa, Prayer Week and many other Christian organizations and prayer networks.

There is a threefold strategy for the massive prayer campaign. From May 6-15, intercessors are encouraged to pray day and night for 10 days for congregations, cities and regions. On May 14, prayer warriors are urged to spend a whole night of prayer for the youth (www.wholenight.com).

Finally, on May 15, Christians are asked to unite to pray in stadiums, churches, market squares, etc.

In "closed" countries Christians are encouraged to come together in creative ways. Many TV, radio and Internet outlets around the world will broadcast GDP. Additionally, after May 15, Christians are invited to take part in "90 Days of Blessing" or community outreaches that may include evangelism, and different types of ministry to help the poor and needy.For more information on the Global Day of Prayer, visit http://www.globaldayofprayer.com/.

Global Day of Prayer Useful Resources

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Global Day of Prayer USA website: http://www.gdopusa.com/ .

The International home site of Global Day fo Prayer ( May 15, 2005) has many downloadable resources you can begin using now. Visit also the USA site for many helps: Click here. There are other ministry organizations who are also making available GDOP resources. Waymakers in Austin, Texas, has a Ten Day Prayer Guide that is also downloadable. USA blogs: Click here.

If you hear of other possible resources let us know in the Comments section below and at the Comments section at http://globaldayofprayercn.blogspot.com/,

Thank you for all your help! ~ Bob Bakke, USA Coordinator

GDOP ~ PowerPoint Presentation - this may take several minutes. It's worth it!!

INTERNATIONAL BLOG UPDATES - February 05

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Preparing for May 15, 2005, Day of Pentecost and Global Day of Prayer celebrations!

International Website: http://www.globaldayofprayer.com .

USA website: http://www.gdopusa.com
USA blogsite: http://globaldayofprayerusa.blogspot.com
Canada blogsite: http://globaldayofprayercn.blogspot.com
Mexico blogsite: http://globaldayofprayermex.blogspot.com
Central America: http://globaldayofprayercam.blogspot.com
Carribean blogsite: http://globaldayofprayercarr.blogspot.com
South America: http://globaldayofprayersa.blogspot.com

Global Day of Prayer ~ LIST OF USA STATE BLOGS

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Click here to find your State and Global Day of Prayer happenings.

Global Day of Prayer Preparations for the U.S.A. has begun!

2005-02-04T01:24:00.000-08:00

The Global Day of Prayer preparations for the U.S.A. has begun. Dr. Bob Bakke, North American Coordinator with Global Day of Prayer, met with leaders of the National Prayer Committee to share, pray and plan with the church in the U.S.A. for a great emphasis on the Global Day of Prayer May 15, 2005.

To learn more of how your STATE can be involved to prepare your group and congregation goto the website: Global Day of Prayer USA website: http://www.gdopusa.com and there you can begin learning and preparing your heart, your city and congregation. This website has all kinds of downloadable resources, in practically any language you may want!

The International website is at: http://www.globaldayofprayer.com/.

Have fun! Get ready!

Remember, "History is shaped by the prayers of the saints"!

AFRICA INVITES the WHOLE WORLD to Participate . . .

2005-02-04T01:22:00.000-08:00

AFRICA invites the whole world to participate in a Global Day of Repentance and Prayer on Pentecost Sunday - 15 May 2005.

Click here to learn the general information, preparation and participation in this unique witness to the WHOLE WORLD!

To learn more about the Global Day of Prayer USA, Click here: http://www.gdopusa.com .

Global Day of Prayer ~ U.S.A. ~ is Hosting Stadium Events

2005-02-04T01:13:00.000-08:00

The Global Day of Prayer (May 15, 2005) movement is hosting Stadium events in several large metropolitan city areas. As they come online, we will list them here.

Global Day of Prayer USA website: http://www.gdopusa.com .