March 1 2002 City Reach Prayer

Introduction by Dr. Samuel E. Tillery, Pastor of the Foothills Community Church

… Certainly tonight is an historic evening. Let me explain a little bit why. First of all, my name is Sam Tillery and I'm the pastor of Foothills Community Church, but more important than that, a part of the PPF (Pastor's Prayer Fellowship) of the Church of Sonoma County. Because who is here tonight is not the fact that we are different churches; we are one church but many congregations and that's what CRP (City Reach Prayer) is about. It is an extension of the PPF.

And, I'm simply standing here along with, I'm gonna introduce Harry Skandera later on, representing what God is calling up among the spiritual leaders in our county to unite the church to pray. To humble ourselves and to seek His face, to turn from our wicked ways and bring in the presence of God that healing may take place in our county. Blinders lifted off the eyes of those who are lost, that they may see the light that is in Jesus Christ. So tonight, we are here and we appreciate the invitation of this church and Pastor Bob's church to recognize us as we come.

We've got five cities represented here tonight, Healdsburg, Sebastopol, Santa Rosa, Sonoma and Glen Ellen, so we've got five cities represented here tonight. But it's not about numbers, it's about obedience to the Lord as we answer His call to humble ourselves and pray together as one church, for what CRP is that once a month, we go to different places to foster and to encourage united prayer of the saints and to ask God's blessing upon the various church ministries and communities.

So we're here tonight to let you know in Sonoma County you are loved and you are important and we care about you and we thank you for opening your doors to us because we are a part of the body of Christ. And in a wonderful way we have various distinctive in our various local churches, various unique ways in which we may express ourselves to God but we come to Him through the person of the Lord Jesus Christ for He is the one who brings us together.

Tonight, the format for this evening is pretty much the same each month in the sense that we spend the first hour praying into the city and together breaking up into large and small groups, really praying and concentrating that God would begin to bless the city of Sonoma. And we have come from other cities to be a part of extending God's blessing to this city.

Then, we spend the second hour focusing in on the host churches or the churches represented here in Sonoma. And so we'll be hearing the vision of some of your pastors, how we can pray into that and ask God's blessings on the specific ministries that are hosting us here this evening. And so it's not about any one of us, it's about the Lord Jesus Christ and what He's called us to do and what He's called us to be.

The Bible has said that the world is going to know that we are His disciples by our love for one another. And the world is not necessarily coming into our congregations in the masses that we would like to see, but as we gather in public meetings like this and we begin to function in ways to see this county come to Christ, they begin to see us loving one another.

The world has been so confused as to where the answer is. I say this most every place I go as it represents this prayer movement because this is not an event tonight, it is a part of the move of God stirring the hearts of His people to come together to pray. To lay aside all those differences and to focus in upon Him as the world begins to see that we have a love for one another and they recognize that the answer is not in your church or my church but rather in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. And as they begin to see that, they hear that one clear message - not that we are different or that one is better than another, but they hear that the answer is in Him and they see it in our love for one another. So that's what we're about here tonight.

In just a few moments, Harry Skandera is going to come and kind of set a framework for us to understand some of the history in Sonoma. Each place we go, whether it's a city or a ministry, it's important for us to be informed so we can intercede. So often we begin to intercede for things, not really being educated or understanding what the issues are, or what God's heart is for an area. And a term that's used that some misunderstand is called "spiritual mapping," is simply gathering information, much like what a physician may do as you go and you're saying, "I'm kind of ailing in this area or that way," and he asks you questions and he begins to get a greater idea as to where the problem may lie so that he can administer what ever needs to be.

Or much like an X-ray. You take an X-ray which kind of takes a look inside the body to give you a better idea of what's going on. And so spiritual mapping gathers information about what's been happening in a community, in churches, what are the strengths, the weaknesses of a community. To begin to identify those areas that we can pray about to be informed to say "God will you deal with these …" and then we begin to get specific. And releasing God's blessing into an area.

So, I'm going to ask that Harry comes and, Harry Skandera has been a blessing to this movement of God. He's been appointed by the PPF, kind of, as our historian and in charge of the intercessors throughout the county, and serves the Lord full time at Santa Rosa Christian School and also ministers with the PPF in this movement of God. And So Harry would you come and share with us a little about the history of Sonoma so as we go to prayer, we can be informed.

Harry Skandera, historian and coordinator of intercessors for PPF.

First of all let me just say that it's a real blessing to be here. You know, this drive between Santa Rosa and Sonoma has got to be one of the prettiest drives in the world. It really is. It's hard not to worship when you make this drive. And it strikes me whenever I make this drive, what a place this city, this town has been. You know in the 1850's, Sonoma was the only town in this county. And as a matter of fact, just a little bit outside of this town up the valley, was the site of the first revival meeting west of the Rocky Mountains. That was in the 1850's.

You know, ironically, because of some political maneuvering in 1854, before Santa Rosa was much more than just a little village, we kind of maneuvered in the State legislature to get the county seat changed from here to Santa Rosa. Nobody really believed that was possible, including the people in Petaluma or Sonoma, or Santa Rosa for that matter. But, nevertheless it occurred and you weren't real eager to give up the county records. In fact, we had to come down in a buckboard in the middle of the night to get those records.

You didn't seem to hold that against us, and we appreciate that, but the picture historically of Sonoma after that was not pretty. It was like it became a place almost of desolation. Within a few decades, there was so much debt, the city fathers decided to sell off parts of the streets to private landowners to pay the debt. And as they did that, it was during that same time period that there was a fire around the Plaza that destroyed most of the buildings. And Sonoma almost ceased to exist as a town.

As you read that and pray over a place, you begin to feel the grief of the Lord over the hopes in a community that begin to dissolve. Because I believe that God wants to work through His destiny not only through us as individuals and families and as individual congregations, but in cities as well.

Just a word that I was left with was one out of the Old Testament. It was called Ichabod - the glory has departed. Despite it's proud history, Sonoma became a place that was no longer a chosen destination. Santa Rosa and Petaluma became the rivals for new people as they came in, settlers and immigrants, travelers. And so, as happens with so many towns when their window of historical recognition begins to close, it's not that good things don't continue to happen. And we've all experienced that in our own lives. Even in the midst of some of the hardest times that we've experienced, we can know God's blessing and encouragement and good things happen.

But tonight, we're here to pray for our brothers and sisters, you in this town. For you and for your fellowships and for this city. Not that it would become something that it was never intended to be, but that it would fulfill the destiny that was hinted at in its' beginning, as a launching pad for revival, as a fuse that would light the dynamite for the transformation of this county.

You know it's interesting that the mission here was the first secularized mission in California. Some people say, "Oh what a shame," but I really believe that there is a message there. And that this is a place that is meant, a place where the church is meant to intersect the business world in every day life. A place where the light of the Gospel is meant to be out in the everyday world and where it expels the darkness that's so prevalent in our society. But that fuse was almost extinguished and I believe it is left to us to breathe on those embers. To allow the Holy Spirit within the body of Christ to encourage those of us who are here, because we need that for which the Father has created this town. This is a place of ignition.

You know as I prayed about this place in coming here tonight, I was telling my wife Carol, "You know, this is a heavy thing, to come into a town and say Ichabod." But that's from the past. We look at the past to understand the present, but we know too that God is here redeeming the present as well as the past.

We have banners that hang in our church at Santa Rosa Christian and there is one particular banner that I felt like was a real picture of this city. There are banners around the sanctuary and each one is for one of the tribes of Israel. And each one has a picture on it. And it's said that when the tribes traveled through the desert, I know some of you are very familiar with this, that the story of Jesus is told in the constellation in the stars. And that each tribe had a particular constellation that they kind of adopted as their theme for their own. And I'm told that the one for Asher is an archer, and on this particular banner there is a picture of an archer mounted on his horse, looking over his shoulder and his bow is bent and he's firing an arrow. He's firing toward the next banner as it were in the sky where the warrior shoots the arrow toward the scorpion to bruise Satan. And I believe that's a prophetic picture of this community.

I really believe that, you know, we all need each other. There are things in Santa Rosa and Petaluma and Healdsburg, Sebastopol, there are unique things in each of those towns and each one has a unique destiny. I know that in our community in Santa Rosa that we have at times been so full of ourselves that we couldn't see anybody else. And, I think that's one reason why we're blessed to be here tonight. Because we realize that we are working through some things from our history that need to be put down and put away. Where we were so full of ourselves, that instead of encouraging the other communities, we just were in it for ourselves, we were so proud.

And so you're helping us tonight, but I believe that you're gonna help us all a lot more as we pray into the destiny of this community. Because I believe with all my heart that just like a roll of dynamite has a cap on it, just like a bomb has a fuse, I believe that this city is a fuse.

It wasn't an accident that this was the first city in this county. It wasn't an accident that this is the closest place to the first revival west of the Rocky Mountains; that's the providence of God in history for this place. And I believe that God wants to see that just as it was in the natural to be so in the spiritual. And that you have not an Ichabod here but that you have an archer who is drawing back his bow, who is preparing to strike the enemy, who is preparing to ignite something that is from the throne of God.

So I'd like us to think about those things and again this is not an event tonight, but I believe this, I believe that as you continue to pray for your pastors here and to pray for one another, and as you come together in the presence of God, I believe that He is going to quicken some of these things that I've said to you tonight and that He is going to show you in very unique ways how that fuse is going to be lit. And I suggest as we get ready to pray in just a few minutes, for us to pray tonight in these four things.

· One, that the walls would come down between the churches in this town. And the second part of those walls coming down would be that the walls would come down between the communities in this town.

You know last month we were in Petaluma and you know we've had some set-toos with Petaluma over the last one hundred and fifty years. I'm not aware of that much between Santa Rosa and Sonoma. I just believe that there's a wall there that we really haven't had much to do with each other. That we didn't really care enough about each other to pray for each other, to encourage each other and to consider the fact that God Himself put both of these towns in the same county, that you have something that we desperately need and that we have something that you desperately need. And that's part of why we pray that the walls come down because how do we know what that is? You know we're clueless because we haven't asked. And I believe that as we begin to come to God in that kind of humility, I believe he is going to reveal it to us. So that would be one, that the walls come down.

I believe secondly, that we need to pray that God would help us to see the keys to revival, for transformation in our county. And I believe that there are some things that are very unique and specific for this end of the valley. You have a very unique destiny from what we do. I'm convinced that we can't do what we need to do as a county without you. So we need you. We need you to pray and to hear God for what that is.

I believe thirdly, that as we pray and ask God for the keys to this county that He would clarify for you what would be the points of admission as a city. Would it be feeding the poor? Will it be street evangelism? Will it be helping the homeless? I don't know. Maybe all of those things, but I believe that there are some very specific and significant things that, because God has sent each of you to the city … a part of what He wants to fulfill and how He wants to do it is wrapped up in the destiny of your life and in the life of your family. He's going to show that to those who come to Him and pray.

And finally, I believe we need to pray for the welfare of this city, that there would be peace here. And that all the citizens, whether they know the Lord or not, that they would be blessed because of you, because of the salt and the light that you are and that you are becoming. I believe that God will answer those prayers because those are the prayers that I believe are on His heart. Sam …

Dr. Samuel E. Tillery

Something very significant happens when the body begins to unite. One is spiritual warfare. It breaks down, it goes the exact opposite of what the enemy has done when he has pushed us into our own little corners. So the very fact that we are here tonight is very significant. And so we're going to break up into groups of three to five. You may want to kinda turn, you know in your pew, or somehow just get comfortable for a little bit and I would encourage you that it's not about us being comfortable with those who we know. You may want to cross somewhere else and sit with someone from another community or another church. Like I said there are five communities uniting to pray very specifically for this community. That's significant. And there's more than that many churches represented here of different kinds, saying, "Lord would you change what has been. Would you bring Your fresh wind of Your Spirit and presence into the lives of the people in this community."

So I'm gonna ask if you would turn, turn around and get comfortable, and pray into these areas. Now this is a time, this is not a fellowship time, we're going to partnership in prayer okay? Keep in mind if you're here and if you're not comfortable praying out loud in a group, that's okay. Your presence and your agreement is just as important. So we want you to feel comfortable and you are important, whether or not you verbalize something out loud in your group.

So just kind of move and position yourself and begin to pray as God leads you into these areas as God would lead and then we'll bring you back together shortly. " … As we wait to see Your unfolding of a new time and a new place of Your blessing, and we give you praise and thanks in Christ's name. Do you all agree with that? Amen."

I'm going to ask that of these four points that Harry has mentioned, in the area of Sonoma, I'm going to ask that if the some of the pastors, not from Sonoma, but from the out, from some of the other cities, would take one of these and pray into it just kind of right where you're at. So I'm going to kind of have Harry mention it and you give me a high sign that you got that and we'll get these four areas covered by the spiritual leaders from these other communities.

The first one was … Okay, which pastor will take that? Just kind of show me you got it. I know there's pastors here … do you want me to call your name? Give you the look? Okay I'm trying to get the pastors who are not here, so that's good, but Sebastopol's got it? All right, so you can cover that. We'll let you take that Steve. You got it? Okay?

The next one is … Okay. You got that Jim?

The third … All right, another pastor can take that one. Say it again. I don't know if they got it. Clarity. Okay what the point of ignition would be for the pastors here. That God would bring clarity for the point of ignition for revival in Sonoma. So, which of the two of you that I'm looking at are going to take that? You got that Lance? Okay, right on.

J.R. you got this next one … The peace, that God would bring peace. All right, Guys, go ahead. Steve why don't you start? Just pray loud enough so that we can hear and agree and ah …

Time of prayer …

"Father, you've heard our cries to you for this community. And we are anxious to see Your answer continue to unfold. So open our eyes to see that we may glorify Your wonderful name."

We're going to shift gears a little bit and that is to hear briefly pastors from this community. What is your heart, your passion for your local church? We're going to target in and pray specifically for your local ministry and then later on, we're going to pray for you as pastors very specifically. But for your church ministry, what God has laid on your heart, so share with us so that we can grab a hold of something, just very specifically pray into for your ministry.

And I'm going to ask, Larry why don't you come and begin as you … amen.

Larry Moore, Pastor of Sonoma Christian Fellowship

Well I have to tell you Harry that Ichabod is a pretty strong word, but I have to testify to the truth of it. We've, this church in it's history which is about twenty years old, has gone up and down and we've done just about everything a church is supposed to do. We've had all the programs that, you know, everything. We've had it all and we've had a measure of success, and then a lot of down times. I think I'm just like any other pastor and I want to see successful programs reaching out to young people, singles, the old people, I want to see the church full on Sunday morning and Wednesday night and a couple of other nights, you know. Like I've said, we've done all those things, so what am I gonna say?

I yearn to see the young people in this valley fall in love with the Lord. There just seems to be a lethargy here. But what I really want to see, and what I believe my congregation shares with me is that we just really want to see revival in the valley. If there's a revival, if there's a move of God in this valley, then I'm going to have no problem looking out and seeing what's useful. And Tim's not going to have any problem and mom's not going to have any problem and Steve and every church in this valley's gonna be full.

We're not going to have to worry about programs, cause they're just gonna be there. We're not gonna have to do it. We want to see revival here, and as far as specifically, for us, about two years ago we were challenged by people that were our spiritual covering, as to, 'What are you doing here? What difference do you make? What's your mission?' And we had to begin to pray on that and you know you get busy and you kinda forget and time goes on. Well, a year and a half, a year ago or so, before I ever started attending the PPF, we met with our leaders and we began to address that question. And God spoke to us in our leadership meeting in our prayer group that we were to become a house of prayer, and that's been nearly a year and a half ago. We haven't gotten beyond that and you said briefly, so I'm just going to tell you that's the vision right now for us.

There's a lot of other things that I want to do, but that is what God has said to us right now. And, that's what we're focusing on. Lo and behold I got involved with PPF and went up to a prayer summit. I've never been to one. Four days of prayer. I've never been to that. Four days of teaching, yes, but four days of prayer it was a first time for me. That's our vision. That's what I want you to pray into for us.

We have Anette, she isn't here tonight, but she's been coming down and Mildred and Carol have been ministering to my wife and giving her things and the Lord has decided to help us in our prayer groups here in ways that are new to us and it's exciting, you know? We get this town and all that other stuff is gonna happen. And that's where it's at for us.

Dr. Samuel E. Tillery

So I want you told hold onto that because we're going to break up into groups and pray for this church and it's name is Sonoma Christian Fellowship. We're going to pray specifically for Larry as the pastor a little later on but I wanted you to catch that what God may put on your heart to pray for this church. Bob would you come and …

Rev. Bob Stevenson, Pastor of the Glen Ellen Community Church -

I'm the pastor of the Glen Ellen Community Church, and we worship in a building that is 106 years old. So it's been a part of the community for many, many, many years. And as a historical place, there are many people in our community that call Glenn Ellen their church but never come into our church, and pass by it every day and are concerned and helpful and willing to support it if something needs to be done like painting and projects like that so we're kind of in a situation where the church is very identifiable and yet it's not making that impact into the community for the people that say, "Yes, this is my church," and they're not walking into the doors and becoming a part of our church.

Our church is alive, our church is growing, our church is doing some fantastic things. We're not the biggest church by any stretch of the imagination, and someone described our church as an eclectic group: I like that word. We seem to have a ministry that opens the doors to people that are broken and need healing and are coming from various difficulties in life and that seems to be where our ministry is. That seems to be what the Glen Ellen church is all about. It's a church where God's love is very much evident.

In the last few years, we've had a very significant impact in a number of homeless and drug addicted and alcohol addicted single people and couples living in our community. It was mentioned that this is a beautiful drive from Santa Rosa up to here and it is. And if you drive through Glen Ellen, Glen Ellen is a destination for so many folks to come and visit and spend a day and yet when you look beyond the beauty, we have people living under the bridge. And we have people living by the creek and we have people that are hanging out by the liquor store.

And I think historically Glen Ellen in the 60's and 70's was a place where that counter-culture and that is the prevailing mood, it still lingers. There are still a significant number of people that have that type of a lifestyle. God has blessed that we've been able to have an impact and last Sunday as an example, we have a fellowship time after church and we probably have maybe ten to a dozen individuals that live out there and yet they came over to church, enjoyed a meal with us and God's blessing, I mean the folks that are part of our church have reached out in love to those kind of folks that need to be loved.

And sometimes they don't show up to church looking good and smelling good and maybe even not behaving well, but that seems to be where God has led us in these last few years. And we praise God. We've seen people come to know Jesus and lives beginning to be changed in very significant ways. So you can be praying about that.

But specifically also, as you pray for our church, because that's where our ministry is, the organizational part of it is difficult because we have a lot of folks who are coming from broken areas and broken lives and we get them mended, but it's difficult to minister and difficult to maintain - you need a certain amount of stability and you need a certain amount of stability spiritually from people that are coming to maturity and God also has provided that over the years as people have moved into our community and have come into our church and have added some of that maturity but we still need to be praying into that, that God would equip us and send those types of folks to us so …

Dr. Samuel E. Tillery

Glen Ellen Community Church, and I haven't met you Tim, would you mind coming and sharing with us?

Tim Arensmeier, Pastor of Sonoma Valley Community Church

Tim Arensmeier and my wife Jan and I are new in Sonoma. We've been here since August. I was pastoring the Sonoma Valley Community Church as an interim, starting in January of last year and had a short commute from Madera by Fresno. So, that was kind of an interesting 3½ hour one-way trip and I did that until August when we moved here.

For those of you who don't live in the immediate vicinity of Sonoma, I'll just tell you just one of the things that we picked up upon just coming here. I had known about the Jesus Seminar several years ago but had not known that it was headquartered here in Sonoma.

For those of you who are not familiar with the Jesus Seminar, this is a group of quote-unquote "scholars" who have undertaken to establish which things that are in the Bible ostensibly said by Him were truly said by Him, were probably said by Him, we don't know if they were said by Him, they probably weren't said by Him or they absolutely weren't said by Him. Now that was headquartered in this city, and it still goes on.

So one of the thing that fascinates me as a person who has a little bit of appreciation for what post-modernism is and the whole idea of seeing us as a country and us in this valley and this city very post-modern, very much beyond …

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… meaning there is no truth, and so we have in this city, again those of you who live here know this, but we've got in this city, we have churches where the pastors just fundamentally do not accept in any way shape or form the inspiration, authority, clarity or sufficiency of scripture, support the homosexual agenda and that's just ducky in their minds. And so for those of us who are slowly but surely working to come together around the person and work and accomplishment of Jesus Christ and the legitimacy of accepting His Word as inspired by the Spirit of God, inerrant in its original autographs, and sufficient for matters of faith and practice, we sort of feel a little bit alone. And we appreciate the daylights out of you all coming down here to pray for us. That's just absolutely … Hallelujah! … my wife and I were in tears just kind of turning over in our minds, "somebody really cares and has been praying for this place longer than we have," and so that's a real encouragement.

At our church, which is also, you know it's been around for forty-five years I believe, maybe even longer, yeah about that, sixty years, something like that, but it's kind of had its sort of peak somewhere a long time ago and then it has had some valleys, and for my money, one of my burdens personally and everywhere that Jan and I have ministered for probably thirty years now, we have been trying to beat the drum on helping the Lord's people to become Biblically literate. In other words, we try to read through the Bible annually. We've got a Bible reading guide that we work with. I say try because there's been years where we've been maybe seventy percent successful. But the old saw, "if you're shooting for nothing, you'll probably hit it," works when it comes to trying to read through the Bible annually too.

So I told this church like I told other churches. "I'm reading through the Bible. Here's the guide. If you want to take this and work with it and when I'm preaching, I'll try to every week bring in a passage or two or three from what you've just read," and it's exciting for me to watch as God's people, many times, who have loved the Savior for years, but have never read through the scriptures, when they start doing that and they start doing it again, and to have people writing us now and say, 'I'm doing it for my twenty-seventh year Arensmeier,' and I think, "Whooo, that can't be bad!"

And so to try to inculcate structure into the hearts, and the lives and the minds of God's people so that it becomes theirs, and as we get the scripture into people, you know you get God's Word into people and pretty soon God is going to be in their lives in such a way that they will have the capacity to take what the circumstances are that they're finding themselves encountering and respond in a fashion that honors Jesus Christ. So that's kinda what we're shooting for.

Dr. Samuel E. Tillery

So let's right now get back in your groups or find a new group and pray very specifically. Let's turn in your groups because we want to pray before our time's out. Break into your groups and now keep in mind, there's a place in these groups, keep your prayers short so that all can participate and to the point, so go to prayer right now, we don't have much …

"… and Lord we again are continuing to be anxious to see your blessing continue to unfold. And may these churches we are bringing before you be catalysts, be a spark to ignite throughout this town, this city, this valley, be glorified Father, we ask in your name, Amen."

I'm going to ask as we move toward the close of this evening that if we could have the three of you pastors that represent this area, if you would come forward up here, and I'm going to ask if the pastors from the other cities or your staff or elders if you're here from the other areas, if you'll come up here as well. And what we'd like to do is surround you, and pray into your lives as leaders. So if you wouldn't mind kneeling down here and the rest of you, if you're an elder, and we would on behalf of our churches and our communities, we want to pray God's blessings into your lives as spiritual leaders here in the Sonoma Valley, so men if you would pray for these men.

… Prayer time …

Dr. Samuel E. Tillery

"Father we ask that You would touch Steve and Tim, Lord may your Spirit flow in and through them. For Larry and for Bob, lift their hands up and empower them in new ways that Christ would be clearly seen, sensed and felt in all that they do. Father may they decrease that Christ may increase in their ministries and in this community and throughout this county we pray in Christ's most precious name we pray, Amen."

Do you all agree with that? Amen!

Before we close tonight with a song, we mentioned earlier that we have need of thee, and so what we'd like is for everybody that is here from outside of this end of the valley to just remain seated and if you happen to be back of any of the brothers or sisters from this end of the Sonoma Valley, maybe you want to move in front of them so they'll all be looking the same way, and we'd like all of you from this end of the valley to stand up and pray for us. We need what you have and we believe that as you step forward to give what God has put in your heart, that He is going to quicken something that He hasn't been able to quicken before and that something, we're yet to discover but we know that it's missing from us and that is enough.

And so we what we would ask is that you would if you will just pray out - you'll all be praying at the same time but it's a big bowl up there in heaven, it's getting filled by your prayers and I know that it'll receive all your prayers at the same time. So just pray out over us and we're trusting that we'll receive what it is that you're praying for us. We'll let that go for about three to five minutes. So if you're in back of the brothers or sisters there, please move up and then be seated. All the brothers and sisters from here if you'll just stand and let us have it.

… Prayer time …

"That which You've imparted to us, open our eyes in the days that come before us to see the difference that You are making because we have come together to pray and we give you thanks in Your name, Amen."

As we close things out, one of the ways you can be informed as to God's move in this prayer movement throughout the prayer movement in this PPF in this county, there is a website called the Pastor's Prayer Fellowship website and the address is very simple, it's www.unitedprayer.org You'll just probably what's happened tonight, pictures taken tonight will be on the website shortly and you can see what God is doing in each of the various areas and cities. You can be informed as to up and coming concerts of prayer and praise and what God is doing in a variety of different ways, so I would encourage you if you have access to the Internet, to access www.unitedprayer.org

City-Reach meets on the first Friday of every month throughout the year so it's easy to remember. You'll find out where on the website. Next month we'll be in Healdsburg at Lance Yeley's church along with a few others that may be hosting us. So we would invite you to CRP next month in Healdsburg. And they've come down here and some of you may go up there. This will probably be one of the only times, Harry and I usually facilitate, but Harry will be ministering in Belize, he and his wife Carol and I will be ministering in the country of Latvia, but we will have Jim Argue and another pastor facilitating that meeting on behalf of the pastors.

I do want to say on behalf of the pastors in Petaluma, they wanted to be here tonight, but they had already scheduled a united gathering viewing tonight the "Transformations II" video and so I just thought, let me just on behalf of us pray for them. They wanted to be here, they send their greetings to you and they'll be up in Healdsburg next month.

"Father right now as they're probably completing that video, stir their hearts, unite them together, expand their vision and Father release the transformation You desire to happen in Petaluma. So bless all of the believers and the pastors and leaders and churches represented right now as they're gathered somewhere in Petaluma, and we pray in Christ's name, Amen."

I think that's it. We have a closing song and then we're gone. Lord bless you. Thanks for being here and I think you, Larry, you wanted to share something. Why don't you come as they get set.

Larry Moore

I'm just gonna say, and, for my betterment and for God's glory, I would like every pastor to stand up if you would please. Come on Tim just stand up and Lance from Healdsburg.

The Bible says, "If you want to be great in God's kingdom, you need to serve." There's a joy in serving that we find that passes all the joys that we can do, going to the show or bowling or whatever. If you want to experience the tremendous joy in going to City-wide prayer meetings, we have been served tonight by people from a long ways away with a very busy schedules and I'm going to encourage you to take a trip to Healdsburg on the first of April and join in and experience the joy of serving the body of Christ somewhere else, and join with these pastors as they go out, thank them.