Pray for Boston

Dear Metro Boston Pastors & Prayer Leaders,

The next ‘Pray for Boston’ gathering will be Tuesday October 27th at Ruggles Baptist Church in the Fenway/Kenmore neighborhood of Boston 9am-12noon with lunch following. Pastors Larry Showalter and David W. Hill will be our hosts. This gathering is open to all Metro Boston pastors and prayer leaders. Therefore, feel free to forward this invitation through your networks. Although, an email RSVP to prayforboston@egc.org helps us get a head count for the lunch. Brother Zenzo Matoga zenzopraise5@hotmail.com will be leading the worship team.

Also check out www.prayforboston.org

About ‘Pray for Boston’

Pray for Boston is an ongoing monthly prayer meeting and movement of Metro Boston pastors and leaders that was started approximately two years ago. Pray for Boston is encouraging four streams of ministry suggested by local pastors: (1) neighborhood based pastor-to-pastor prayer and fellowship; (2) neighborhood based congregation-to-congregation gatherings; (3) coordinated city-wide prayer gatherings & activity, and (4) intercessory prayer activity - especially with regard to how these four streams of ministry might help prepare the church and our city for a sustained and significant move of God’s Spirit- even revival. Contact: prayforboston@egc.org

Next meeting location:

Ruggles Baptist Church

874 Beacon Street

Boston, MA 02215-3101
617-266-3633

News/Announcements/Requests

· 333 House of Prayer goes public! Now meeting at Congregacion Leon de Juda http://leondejuda.org/en/node/7029 Tues-Sat Noon-3pm. Contact: Christ John Otto belonginghouse@gmail.com or 603-233-7803.

· Lou Engle meeting with New England Pastors and Leaders Saturday October 10^th 3-5pm at Lion of Judah 68 North Hampton St. Boston, MA 02118. Contact www.jhopboston.com

· Pursuit of the Holy with Corey Russell of IHOP in Kansas City October 30th & 31st New Life Dennisport, MA. Contact info@newlifeoncapecod.com

· International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church Nov 8, 2009 more info at www.idop.org

· One10 Gatherings monthly worship & prayer gatherings contact: info@jhopboston.com

· Ethnic Ministry Summit 2010 prayer team contact: Miwon Oh miwon1004@comcast.net

· Prayer Tour to Korea is being rescheduled for March 18-23, 2010. Contact: Dana Wade dwade@egc.org

· Church of the Midnight Hour Worship Service for ongoing, late night, local prayer on the air www.globalministriesboston.org or www.globalministriesboston.blogspot.com or pastorbrucewall@aol.com

· Hosting His Presence worship & prayer at Fountain of Grace, 190 Milton St., Dedham, MA, contact: Linda Clark Pray@NEAPN.org or 617-848-0922 or New England Apostolic Prayer Network www.neapn.org

· Personal Prayer & Intercession every Thursday night at 9-10pm 1-270-400-1500 enter code 500302# Cheryl and her team will pray and intercede for your personal prayer requests or email Pray4Me@NEAPN.org at anytime.

· Peacemaking for Church Leaders One day trainings in biblical peacemaking to help pastors, ministers, and church leaders to live out Matthew 5:9. Oct 12-16 at five different New England locations steiger.anna@gmail.com

· Christian Union: prayer for campus ministry development-to see the spiritual and moral climate at the university radically changed, for the benefit of Harvard individuals, society, and the world. Contact and info: Don.Weiss@Christian-Union.org and www.Christian-union.org/harvardcampaign.

· Ethnic Ministry Summit 2010 vision/steering team contact: Gregg Detwiler gdetwiler@egc.org

· Boston prayer Summit 2010 tentative March 9-11, 2010. Contact Dave Hill hilldavidr@rcn.com

· Neighborhood based Pastor-to-Pastor small groups in addition to our monthly Metro Boston gatherings, neighborhood based, pastor-to-pastor groups are developing…(see contact list below).

2009 ‘Pray for Boston’ Schedule and Meeting Locations

Our tentative schedule for 2009 is 9am-12noon with lunch following:

Jan 27 Jubilee Christian Center

Feb 24 Jubilee Christian Center

(Mar 24-26 attending Boston Prayer Summit)

Apr 28 Boston Missionary Baptist Church

May 26 Congregation Lion of Judah

Jun 23 Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary– CUME in Boston

Jul 28 Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Greater Boston (Cambridge).

Aug 25 River of Life Church (Jamaica Plain) Boston

Sep 22 Evangelical Congregational Church, North Quincy

Oct 27 Ruggles Baptist Church, (Fenway/Kenmore) Boston, MA

Nov 17

Dec 15 King of the Nations, Somerville, MA

What happens at our monthly gatherings?

Our monthly gatherings will follow this basic pattern:

9:00 – 9:30 Fellowship

9:30 – 10:00 Worship

10:00 – 10:30 Presentation (teaching, testimony, announcements, & etc.)

10:30 – 12:00 Prayer

12:00-1:00 Meal

-The amount of fellowship, worship & presentation time can flex but the prayer time must be well guarded by the prayer facilitators with the goal of 90 minutes of prayer minimum.

Neighborhood based Pastor-to-Pastor groups

In addition to the monthly Metro Boston ‘Pray for Boston’ Prayer meetings, some pastors are gathering in smaller neighborhood based, pastor-to-pastor prayer & fellowship groups as listed below. Some of the groups draw from multiple neighborhoods and some are gathering leaders from broader areas like the North Shore or South Shore. If you know of other groups that should be listed or would like to start a group in your area, please let us know at prayforboston@egc.org

City/Neighborhood

Boston

Allston-Brighton: Dave Hill hilldavidr@rcn.com

Back Bay/Beacon Hill:

Central:

Charlestown:

East Boston: Alan Juarez pastorjuarez@hotmail.com

Fenway/Kenmore: David W. Hill dwhill@fenwaychurch.org

Hyde Park:

Jamaica Plain: Tom Griffith tgriffith@rolcboston.org

Mattapan: Roland Cooper recooper@jubileeboston.org

North Dorchester:

Roslindale:

Roxbury:

South Boston:

South Dorchester: Bill Dunigan bdjubilee@aol.com

South End: Neal Armandt SouthEndChurch@juno.com 617-262-0900

Gregory Norman 617-756-3794 x257

West Roxbury:

Brookline:

Cambridge: Dan Szatkowski danszat59@gmail.com

North Shore: Brandt Gillespie brandtgillespie@aol.com

South Shore: Francis Balla francis.balla@gmail.com

Metro West:

Prayforboston@egc.org