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Nelson Mandela Bay | Transformation Christian Network |
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Prayer Pointers for the Current Week
"The United Prayer Movement (UPM) is about PASTORS praying together and promoting united prayer throughout the NM Bay"
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The OVERALL OBJECTIVE of the UPM is two-fold:
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OBJECTIVE NO. 1:
"To use prayer as a vehicle to unite church leaders, who will in turn mobilise
ALL their members to pray for the Bay"
The United Prayer Movement seeks to accomplish this task by assessing the prayer needs of the NM Bay market place on a weekly basis.The TCN office will then pass on these 'prayer needs' to all the Pastors of the NM Bay (using two communication strategies explained below). The Pastors will then lead the entire NM Bay in praying for what they believe is God's will for the city!
The key elements in this movement are:
• Pastors praying together,
• Weekly prayer pointers and
• Effective communication between all prayer co-ordinators.
The PROCESS works as follows:
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On a weekly cycle every Monday morning, morning prayer pointers will be communicated to the TCN office.
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To ensure maximum communication efficiency, these SAME prayer pointers will then be passed on to radio stations, newspapers, churches for their bulletins, as well as being sent to all other prayer networks via PE Church Net (by SMS, e-mail or fax).
OBJECTIVE NO.2:
"To ensure that every sector of the market place is covered in prayer."
Prayer networks are being built up in all five sectors of the market place. It is our vision to work with a prayer co-ordinator in:
• every single church in the NM Bay,
• every school and institute of learning,
• every business and
• every department of government.
OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
Initiatives that will also be utilised to enhance this Bay wide movement will be the:
• Global Day of Prayer
• Annual Pastors' Prayer Summit.
The UPM will function under the covering of the TCN Executive Committee. The TCN office will provide the necessary secretarial and administrative backup to ensure that the movement functions effectively.
Structure, Composition and Functions
“Work in unity to promote / develop prayer ministry in NM Bay.”
The UPM will function under the covering of Pastoral Oversight.
1. STRUCTURE: UPM COMMITTEE
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TCN Executive Committee
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UPM Co-ordinators
2. UPM CO-ORDINATORS
2.1 Co-ordinators: Pierre van Wyk, Joan Keeling and Area Co-ordinators.
3. FUNCTIONS OF UPM CO-ORDINATORS
3.1 Promote prayer ministry in the NM Bay ie to ensure that every citizen of the NM Bay is covered
in prayer daily and every person is prayed for every day by someone.
3.2 Prevent promotion of any particular theological / denominational persuasion.
3.3 Promote formation of new networks.
3.4 Focus on prayer activities as opposed to meetings and structures.
3.5 Meet when necessary.
4. FUNCTIONS OF UPM
4.1 Administration Function: P/P distribution / communication
4.2 Database Management
4.3 Organise UPM meetings
4.4 Communicate urgent requests to area co-ordinators
4.5 Communication: Church Bulletins; website (www.tcn.org.za); e-mail (info@tcn.org.za);
radio; sms; newspapers; TCN Newsletter.
Prayer Pointers for the current week
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
• Dallas Willard in South Africa (3 Aug 2010) |
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Vision & Objectives
| Our Strategy
| Market Place Model
| Community Involvement |
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