This issue of the Framework e-newsletter is about prayer.

Building Sunday School by the Owner’s Design by Danny Von Kanel includes prayer tools for bringing about church growth.

* “I found “Built by the Owner’s Design” to be most practical in terms of working with churches.” B. Carlisle Driggers, Executive Director, South Carolina Baptist Convention

* "Solid work" - Dr. Randy Von Kanel, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church, Tupelo, MS

* "The book will help churches rethink their outreach methods and redouble their efforts." Dr. Don Aycock, Senior Pastor, Liberty Baptist Church, Palatka, Florida

* "A refreshing and enlightening resource that every pastor will want to read and own." Peg Keeley, Project Manager, Asbury Seminary Online, Asbury Theological Seminary

* A balanced and helpful resource for a study of church growth." Dr. James Carter, LBC Live, Louisiana Baptist Convention

* "Danny Von Kanel is right on target with his new book." Tim Posey, Evangelist and Executive Director of Freedom Ministries International, Inc.

* I was impressed by how much I marked this book for quotations I will use in my ministry. I was also surprised by how much I enjoyed reading it." Doug Beachem, Executive Director, International Pentecostal Holiness Church and Church education Ministries.

* This book will broaden the knowledge and insights of pastors who desire to lead a growing church." Chip Arn, President, Church Growth, Inc. (Monrovia, CA)

* "A profound and meaningful resource." Midwest Book Review

* "Pastor will enjoy the journey through this easily readable, practical, and thought provoking book." Barbara Robideoux, freelance editor and critiquer.

* A fresh and creative proposal to build churches by God's design, not human engineering." Waldo J. Werning, Discipleship/Stewardship Center, Pewaukee, WI

* I appreciate finding a book that gives helpful steps and points to getting churches back on a true
evangelistic track." Mary Pallon, lay evangelism committee member in the Presbyterian church.

* A valuable resource for the pastor and church leader who wants to see the church reach the community for Jesus Christ." Randall Murphree, editor of the AFA Journal (American Family Association).

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MINISTRY PERSPECTIVES __________________________________

The National Prayer Center

http://prayer.ag.org/

The National Prayer Center was established in 1994 to provide a call center and receiving point for requests from people seeking help through prayer. Since its establishment, millions of calls and requests have come to the 1-800-4-PRAYER phone line and through the web site, email, fax, and mail (An Assembly of God Prayer Effort).

In All Things … Pray

http://www.sbcpray.net/aboutus.asp


In All Things… Pray is a resource offered by the Southern Baptist Convention. They are offering this forum to help God's children grow in their prayer life, give voice to their requests, and to garner the power of prayer through a virtual prayer wall that circumnavigates the globe.

Psalm 91 Group

http://www.psalm91group.com/


This is a global network of people who are committed to prayer for their families, their friends, their communities, and each other. They can’t be in the same place at the same time in the world but they can, in the name of Jesus Christ, be in the same hands...HIS hands...and that’s what makes them close at heart.


BOOK AWARENESS ______________________________________

Strategic Prayer: Applying the Power of Targeted Prayer by Eddie Smith & Michael Hennen

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Learn to Pray Targeted, Specific, Result-Oriented Prayers Prayer practitioners Eddie Smith and Michael L. Hennen identify twenty-seven principles that will equip you to pray more purposefully and effectively. Using them, you will focus on the Lord’s answers rather than your requests understand strategies for a successful offensive grasp the critical importance of timing learn the enemy’s goals and strategies and prepare for victory as God’s glory is revealed Complete the practical survey that follows each principle to spiritually map your prayer target. Then use your map to effectively focus both personal and corporate prayer. This goal-based, proactive approach to prayer will bring results in individuals, churches, cities, and nations as you enter into partnership with God.

The Pastor in Prayer by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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This book is a collection of prayers by Spurgeon. Some have described Charles Spurgeon as the last English puritan. They may be right. These collection of prayers offered on Sunday mornings were copied down along with his sermons. However, the sermons made the print while the prayers often did not. We have them now and every Christian (especially evangelical pastors) should read and mark well the prayers of Spurgeon.


Partners in Prayer by John maxwell

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Prayer is the bridge that allows pastors and lay people to partner together effectively in ministry. Author John Maxwell knows this to be true because a prayer-partner ministry changed his church and empowered his ministry. Writing in a warm, anecdotal style with lots of practical hands-on help, Maxwell describes how this method of support has been proven time and again in churches of all sizes. Empower your laity for ministry involvement with this complete plan for creating a prayer-partner program in your church.


Building Sunday School by the Owner’s Design (100 Tools for Successful Kingdom Growth )
By Danny Von Kanel

This book includes effective team ministry tools. A must in developing a solid and comprehensive Sunday school ministry.

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OWNER’S DESIGN SAYINGS _________________________________

“We can shut our doors and go home if our churches are not fully engaged in prayer. Our source of power infiltrates a church with zeal, unity, and wisdom when we connect with our Creator.” Danny R. Von Kanel

“The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists in shoving it all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other, larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in.” C.S. Lewis

"...Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons -- but they are helpless against our prayers." Sidlow Baxter

“God desires us to ask for His will to be done. Very seldom have I not requested healing for someone but I ask believing God knows what’s best. “You do not have because you do not ask God” (James 4:2). The first step toward receiving God’s miracles is to ask … praying simply … faithfully … and believing.” Danny R. Von Kanel

"There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as prayer for him. William Law

BIBLE SNIPPETS _________________________________________

“Moses replied, "When I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands in prayer to the LORD. The thunder will stop and there will be no more hail, so you may know that the earth is the LORD's.” Exodus 9:29

“The LORD is far from the wicked but he hears the prayer of the righteous.” Proverbs 15;29

"It is written," he said to them, " 'My house will be a house of prayer' [ Isaiah 56:7] ; but you have made it 'a den of robbers.' [ Jer. 7:11] " Luke 19:46

“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.” Philippians 4:6

DANNY R. VON KANEL MINISTRY LIBRARY ____________________

Praying Boldly by Danny Von Kanel

“The store reverberated with people. Selling Christian books, even in a crowded bookstore, came easy until a woman shared she had just been diagnosed with cancer. Thinking to myself, “How can I help this lady?” she said, “Will you pray for me?”

I could give a book … but pray, that required bold intercession -- a kind I struggled with until re-reading Psalm 20. In it, I found the secret to praying courageously: requesting answers, rushing help, remembering sacrifices, and rewarding desires. …”

… (Note: Request the rest of this article from Danny Von Kanel at dannyvon@bellsouth.net . He is waiting on a publisher’s interest in this article).

The Illusive Search for Spiritual Strength by Danny Von Kanel

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Mature believers have found the secret to overcoming. When they face life’s storms, these Christ followers come out the other side with a jubilant joy. Prayer is the key to intimacy … to overcoming.


OWNER’S DESIGN CONFERENCE IS AVAILABLE __________________

Contact Danny Von Kanel at dannyvon@bellsouth.com This is a weekend conference with your church leadership to show them how to build your church by the Owner’s Design. Danny’s expenses are on a love offering basis or fee worked out between the pastor and Danny. Call 985-735-8880 or 985-516-4550. Waiting for your call.

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