What can happen in fifteen days?

Within the next fifteen days, there's quite a flurry of activity surrounding the conference. It's hot outside, there are lots of emails flying around, databases to reconciled, paperwork to file and phone calls to make to finish out the extraordinary volunteer effort by the local volunteer team. But take some time to rest and see what God is up to.

What is God up to? - With your prayers, He is stirring the hearts of men to boldly pursue Jesus Christ. To this day, God is still using Promise Keepers, not because Promise Keepers is great, but because God is.

Here's a testimony from a first timer from the Promise Keepers' conference in Anaheim. Let this be an encouragement to all - your efforts and most importantly your prayers do make a difference!

I had never before attended a PK event prior to this last weekend. I was invited by my brother-in-law who has been to quite a few of these events.

During the last couple of months, I have made some life-changing decisions. I recently left the career that I was involved in for the last 6+ years with nothing planned to fill that void with. I also began attending church regularly for the first time since I was a child. I needed to make a change in my life in quite few ways if I intended on keeping my family together and keeping my health. My brother-in-law and a few other friends that are Christians have provided me with great support.

I arrived on Friday evening not really knowing what to expect. The first speaker really hit home with me because, I too am a military veteran. I never served during a time of conflict, but I related to everything that he was saying. When his son-in-law came out, this really hit home. I too came from an abusive and broken family. This is what led me to the military at the age of 17. Hearing what they had to say sent me the message that this is where I needed to be this particular weekend.

The rest of the speakers and entertainers were equally inspiring and taught me a lot about myself. I am a newly devoted man of Christ and am very thankful for the invitation that was made to me to be part of an amazing weekend. I became very emotional several times throughout the weekend and am forever grateful for what I went through. I am greatly looking forward to next years event here in L.A. Thank you PK for a great GOD filled weekend.

Fernando
Simi Valley, CA

Promise Keepers Nashville !

Promise Keepers opened its 17th year of conference ministry at the Mobile Civic Center on the Gulf Coast of Alabama.

Read more about the conference in Mobile here

Got friends sitting on the fence whether or not to attend the NEARLY FULL Nashville conference? Send them (and view for yourself) the new Interactive WebBrochures.

View the Nashville WebBrochure here and pass it along.

It's a quick way to tell your friends, family and church members about the upcoming PK conference...

Meanwhile, the Nashville Leadership Team is finalizing all of the logistics and ministry opportunities to ensure a suberb conference experience!



There is still time to volunteer by registering on the right sidebar by clicking on VOLUNTEER REGISTRATION... just indicate Nashville as the conference city; there are a few spots needed for retail on both Friday and Saturday. This slot is ideal for women of all ages to catch a taste of the Promise Keepers conference experience that husbands, fathers, sons and brothers are passionate about!



Volunteer today and we'll get you in the system immediately as we will be sending out volunteer packet information this week!



Any questions? Just use the Leadership eMail Contacts links or Promise Keepers LINKS on the right sidebar.

The Prayer of Paul

A prayer composed from the prayers of Paul in Ephesians 1 & 3, Philippians 1 & Colossians 1

O Lord, with praise and thanksgiving, I come before you - the God of my Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father - and I ask for a Spirit of wisdom and revelation so that I can know you intimately. I ask, too, that you will illuminate the eyes of my heart so that I can know the hope to which you are calling me - the hope that is my glorious inheritance in the saints - and so that I can know the tremendous power that is available to me as a believer.

I ask also that from your store of glorious spiritual riches you will strengthen my inner man with power so that Christ can live in me by faith. I pray that I will have the superhuman ability, together with all the Christians who are rooted and established in love, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ. I want to know that love by experience-the kind of love that surpasses knowledge - and I want this so I can be filled in all of my being with God himself. I realize, too, that there is a Spirit in me that is able to do beyond all I can ask or imagine. Lord, may that Spirit arise in me and bring glory to Jesus!

I pray that as I experience a fresh revelation of your love, Lord, that this love will mature in me and grow more and more in knowledge and wise insight. May I be able to recognize the highest and the best and to live blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ.

Lord, in all of this, let me see things from your point of view, something I can do through the spiritual insight and understanding you have promised to give me. Above all, let my outer life bring credit to you and let me bring joy to your heart by bearing true Christian fruit.

I ask this in the wonderful and powerful name of Jesus and I thank you that no weapon formed against me or the fulfillment of this prayer will be successful.

Amen.

Profile of a Team

As July 20 -21 rolls around the corner, it is important to not only stay in a posture of prayer, but to team together as one cohesive unit to set the stage for the Holy Spirit to bring about salvation and awakening to every man attending.

As we begin to team together, here are some wisdom nuggets from unknown sources. As leaders, it is always helpful to do a self check as we "shamelessly recruit" and assemble our various teams -

Profile of a Team

• Works toward a common goal
• Develops its members’ skills
• Efficiently uses its time and talents
• Embraces the diversity of its members
• Is committed to continuous improvement
• Builds morale internally
• Performs effectively and produces results
• Accepts praise and criticism
• Cooperates rather than competes
• Maintains a positive attitude toward everyone’s ideas
• Stays on task
• Uses resources wisely
• Communicates openly
• Teaches and learns from one another
• Resolves conflicts effectively
• Welcomes challenges
• Shares pride in its accomplishments
• Celebrates successes

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

And keep in mind always: the Lord doesn't ask about your ability, only your availability; and, if you prove your dependability, the Lord will increase your capability.

THIS THURSDAY! Promise Keepers Leadership Meeting

I want to take this opportunity to share with you what an amazing job you are doing to prepare your teams for Promise Keepers Nashville 2007. Most of our teams are at or nearly approaching full recruitment.

Can you believe June is almost over? As of today, there are only 24 days until Promise Keepers Nashville 2007. I look forward to visiting with you about the many exciting new developments since our last meeting on June 14'th. Based on where we are by this Thursday, it is entirely possible that this could be our last meeting at Lee Company as a leadership team before we gather the night before the conference.

Please plan to join us this Thursday:

PROMISE KEEPERS LEADERSHIP MEETING

Thursday June 28, 2007
6:30 – 8:30 PM

THE LEE COMPANY
Training Room
331 Mallory Station Road, Franklin, TN 37067
Cool Springs area

MapQuest

Join us for an inspired time of worship and prayer, along with important volunteer information and briefing regarding your assignments, last minute leadership needs, and other issues as we prepare for the conference.

Be sure to bring a check for your leadership team golf shirts (if you want one). Orders are due to Ingram Howard this Thursday night.


COMING ATTRACTIONS:

Promise Keepers Nashville Volunteer Commissioning Service at The People's Church Thursday night July 19'th, 7 PM - 8:30 PM.

It is an honor and a privilege to serve with each and every one of you.

Grace & peace,

Tim Richards

Assistant Event Director & Volunteer Staff Representative
Promise Keepers Nashville 2007
Mobile (615) 319-7150 Home (615) 302-3606
E-mail at PKNashville2007@aol.com

Be a Man of Prayer!

Here is a great resource from the Promise Keepers website – As we round third base and head into the home stretch for the Promise Keepers conference, it is important to stay “prayed up”… Don’t lean on the Prayer Captain to do it for you or your pastor, or your wife –

Take the lead and have a simple conversation with God today… (and clear the clutter off your passenger seat of your car, so He can have a place to sit!)

“Cast all your cares on Him, because He cares for you!”

"I am a man of prayer." (Psalm 109:4)

In every great movement of God in history, two factors have been present:

1) God placed in the hearts of His people a hunger and thirst for Himself.
2) God poured out a spirit of prayer upon His people.

A movement of God has never come by man-made methods. You can’t promote or advertise a move of God. You can’t organize or manipulate a move of God. You can’t work it up you can only call it down. Revival is a sovereign, sudden, selective, and supernatural movement of the Spirit of the Living God. "Not my might, nor by power, but by My spirit, says the Lord of Hosts." (Zechariah 4:6).

We are in a battle! (Ephesians 6:10-12). And we have been chosen to be on the front lines of that battle. Prayer is the mightiest force in the universe, and our most powerful weapon to win great victories.

The church has always gone to battle on the knees of its prayer warriors, especially on the knees of its praying men.

• Praying men are God’s chosen leaders.
• Praying men always feel a need to be alone with God.
• Praying men have a desperation for God.
• Praying men have a longing, a hunger and a thirst for God.
• Praying men have an insatiable desire for the power of God.
• Praying men long to see the glory of God.
• Praying men are the productive workers for God.
• Praying men receive His direction to do work for His glory.
• Praying men are the energizing force in the church.
• Praying men are the determining element in revival.
• Praying men keep God’s Spirit full force in His church.
• Praying men pour into His church spiritual forces to protect her from materialism.
• Praying men win victories, rout the enemy, and defeat the foes of the Gospel.
• Praying men are the ones who attack "the gates of hell."
• Praying men are the ones who raise God’s banner in the very camp of the enemy.
• Praying men are fearless.

Nashville Radio Spots now available!

Promise Keepers has created radio spots in the MP3 format that can be used in church services. Each is tagged with city-specific information. Click the link to listen or you can right-click and select 'Save Target As' to download the file.

There are varying formats in length - listen for them to appear in drive time and various talk, sports and Christian stations here in Middle Tennessee.

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