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“Then I said, Behold: I am here. In the scroll of the book it is written of Me: “I delight to do Your will, O my God.’ Your Law is written within my heart.”
-Psalm 40:7-8
wHAt OtHER cHRiStiAnS SAy AbOut uS - yOuR COmmEntS:
I am with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and we’re working on a children’s project in which we are seeking permission to use a photo of George Mueller…I found his picture on your site. How (do we) obtain permission to use it? Blessings, –Jack W. Munday (Ministry Manager, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association; Asheville, North Carolina)
Thank you for your prompt and helpful response!!! Blessings, –Jack W. Munday (Ministry Manager, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association; Asheville, North Carolina)
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It was so interesting to learn of your community and the details of your devotion to the Lord… We find ourselves thrust into the middle of daily battle in the media worlds of Christian communication which only causes us to pause to thank God from time to time for those he has raised up to keep the incense of prayer stoked and burning before his presence continually… So as and when our little ministries should ever come to your mind we would be so grateful if you would intercede before the Lord on our behalf… Again, we rejoice to know you are there. Your brother in Christ, -Ken Curtis (Founder: Gateway Films/Vision Video; Christian History Institute)
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Dear Lay Monk Preston & Lay Monk Linda, Greetings in the name of our Risen Lord! We are writing you on behalf of The Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches.
We have kept up with you and the ministry over the years and have been greatly blessed by your love for Christ and the Church. We are especially blessed by the way you are encouraging people to know the Lord and grow in his Grace and Love. We should have written a long time ago to tell you we appreciate you including the CEEC in your History of Protestant Monasticism. We have many people who have continued to pursue an evangelical monastic life.
This week beginning October 21st, 2009 the CEEC Bishops are meeting in Synod and we thought it would be nice if we could read a letter of greeting and prayer to the Synod, from the PrayerFoundation.™ This would also give us a nice way of exposing more people to your website. Other fellow “monastics” have been kind to do so; we have included one example from Ray Simpson from Lindisfarne. In Christ, -The Bishops of the CEEC
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Our church library has received your donation to us of The Fanny Crosby Story (DVD). We hold the CVLI (Christian Video Licensing International) license, but I do not find Panmedia Entertainment Corp. listed as a participating publisher. The very nature of our library, of course, is to lend our items to our church members to inspire and inform them and to help them in their walk with Christ. How could we obtain permission to add this DVD to our collection? –Beth M. (Temple Baptist Church Library, Newport News, Virginia)
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I am a missionary with Youth With A Mission in Scotland. I am from Oregon and completed a six month Discipleship Training School at the Seamill location in Scotland in January. I returned in January to staff another DTS. At the moment I am back in Oregon and waiting to return to lead a Discipleship training school. I was so blessed to find your website…it would be lovely to be able to come to such a thin place here in the Oregon / Washington area.
Bless you, -Brenna Stewart (YWAM Missionary; Seamill, Scotland)
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As a Franciscan Friar, I found your website to be very interesting. I am excited by your ministry; I am especially interested in hearing of communities such as yours which clearly demonstrate how much we all share in common. May the Lord continue to bless you and your worthwhile ministry. Peace and all good! -Brother Albert, OFM (Order of Friars Minor)
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Good afternoon, Is the DVD Peter and Paul also with the possibility of Dutch sub-titling…? Best regards, –Jos. S. (Master Catechetics, Diocese of Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
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I am a professor and administrator at Bethel Seminary in San Diego who has a great appreciation for the many contributions of monasticism throughout the ages. Keep up the good work! Peace, -Kent (Bethel Seminary, San Diego, California)
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I am a pastor in a Reformed Church in North Carolina…and was wondering if it is alright to use the material? Also, is there a way to send the information and join over the internet? Thanks, -Rev. Aaron (North Carolina)
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Keep up the good work, brother. –Bro. Terry (Tract Attack)
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Dear Friends, Your information is inspiring and helpful as I pray the Holy Spirit to use me to present it to the people. Also, perhaps they will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day on the 17th in a different mindset. May we all be the “Wild Geese” according to Acts 4:20. Thank you. –Jeanne De T. (Missionary in the Dominican Republic)
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Thanks very much. May the Lord bless the work you may do for His precious name. In 1990 I read some books about the life of George Müller during my time at the Mission School of Medicine in London. Biographies, written by Miller and Steer. As Grace Publishing House, we would like to publish a book about George Müller in the Dutch language. No book about him is available (in Dutch) at the moment. Please could you advise me? I look forward to your news. Kind regards, –Jan (Grace Publishing House, The Netherlands)
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Thank you so much for answering my questions. Explaining the reference of “Oblates” was quite important to us, as this would be of interest for sure, even in our Orthodox faith. Well, you have an exciting ministry, and offer a wonderful service for people such as myself who may never be able to be a monk in the sense that the world may think. “Monks at heart.” Was thinking if we (myself and my husband Danny) become Lay Monks in the PrayerFoundation ™ …am very excited about this….women have always played important parts in Jesus’ ministry and founding: Mary Magdalene, Jesus’ mother, Salome, Mary the mother of Cleopas, and on and on and on. …it is true that your lifestyle resembles much of the Orthodox faith, and the (Nicene) Creed is in keeping with our beliefs (of course). In Christ, -Carol Ann (New York State)
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I wish to become a lay monk and be a part of your great ministry. My wife Llyn would also like to begin the process of becoming a female lay monk. She has been a missionary for 8 years; a pastor / teacher for 12 years. I have two Masters Degrees — one in Religious Education, and a Doctorate from Southern California Theological Seminary.
I have been an Ordained Minister since 1974. I love interdenominational work. My first two years after being born again I spent handing out tracts on Hollywood Blvd. and starting Christian Coffee Houses. In the 70’s I got to work with Brother Andrew…and help Richard Wurmbrand during the Munich Olympics Outreach with the YWAM (Youth With A Mission) team. -Michael M.
“Is math an agnathan suil caraide.”
“A friend’s eye is a good looking-glass.”
-Old Gaelic Saying
I agree whole heartily with your Statement of Faith, as does my future wife. I also can and will do the Daily Hours of Prayer. I was born again April 22nd 2001 (I am Quaker) and my fiancé (messianic) was in August/September of 2007. I went through Seminary to become a Pastor, and I try to remain active in the mission fields.
I have long looked at and read over your site, and with serious prayer I have decided to seek joining you. Feeling serious conviction about the distracted and luxurious life style in the west even among the poor like myself. Enthralled about the ability to join without having to remain single, I have decided to contact you. Your brother in Christ, –Gary C. (Quaker)
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I am an ordinand at Ridley Hall, Anglican Training College, Cambridge, U.K. I am currently trying to write an essay on Celtic monasticism and mission in the early church of the British Isles. In my research I came across your website and have found it very informative. Yours faithfully, -Tim Y. (Cambridge, U.K.)
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I write to express appreciation for your website. Letha and I, in retirement, co-pastor an Anabaptist house church, south of Richmond, Virginia. We are associated with the Church of the Brethren, produced by the confluence of Anabaptism and German Pietism in the early 1700’s.
Recovery of spiritual communion with the Lord through Scripture, sacrament, and contemplative prayer are major investments for me now, after years of pastoring that involved too much administration, and pampering of cranky Christians. I still have to do that stuff, but they are down on my list of priorities.
And I thank God for the core group in the congregation we now serve, who are really supportive prayer pilgrims. Again, with appreciation for your work, I am Yours in Christ, –Jim M. (Pastor, Church of the Brethren, Virginia)
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…I am actually writing to ask if you could possibly remove my story from your website. The reason I am making this request is because I am under contract and printed publications must be cleared before they are released. This publication (that you have posted on your website), and some others that have been printed…have not gone through proper channels.
And the permission to print must be given before the actual speaking engagement. If you have any questions please feel free to call me. Thank you so much. I look forward to talking with you in the future. -Ron De Shay (Producer, American Idol; Los Angeles, California)
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I would like to thank you for your ministry. It has been a great encouragement to me…as well as for my spiritual growth. I often turn to your website for information and encouragement. I hope to be able to become a Lay Monk soon. Keep up the great work that God has called you to. In Christ’s service, -Patrick (Baptist Minister, Arkansas)
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Dear Brother / Sister, I have just found your website and found that someone from my native country Norway is searching for to be linked to your movement. I am for 25 years a Benedictine monk staying in the Netherlands. I began my search for monastic life at Iona in Scotland in 1975 when I visited the Iona Abbey. The Celtic spirituality is for me also an inspiration. Yours sincerely, -Brother Ole, OSB (Order of St. Benedict, The Netherlands)
Henry Martyn arrived in India in April 1806, where he preached and translated the whole of the New Testament into Urdu, Persian, and Judaeo-Persic.
He also translated the Psalms into Persian and the Book of Common Prayer into Urdu. From India, he set out for Persia (modern-day Iran).
Martyn was seized with fever, and though the plague was raging at Tokat, he was forced to stop there, unable to continue.
He went home to be with the Lord on October 16th, 1812.
“Let me burn out for God. After all, whatever God may appoint, prayer is the great thing. Oh, that I might be a man of prayer.”
–Henry Martyn (1781-1812) Anglican Priest, Missionary to India and Persia (Died age 31)
Dear Sirs, I am writing to you because I am trying to establish who owns the Rights to a poem called “Life Is” by Mother Teresa. We are making a charitable film about Life and would like to use this poem in the film. However we are having problems establishing who actually owns the Rights. If you could shed any light on this matter I would truly appreciate it. Many thanks, -Poppy C. (The Edge Picture Company, London, U.K.)
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l have visited your webpage and it has really ministered to my soul… In Christ, -Pastor Sagana (Kenya)
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A few years ago, I dialogued with you via email, and it…planted a seed I didn’t expect. The vision God had given me (I have been an Artist-Missionary for 25 years now), suddenly began to take the shape of a Monastery for the arts, after dialoguing with you and discovering the PrayerFoundation™ via the internet.
Now, four years after the initial vision, I am finally free to begin talking about it. Amazingly, our Board of Directors has approved of the idea! I am also free to discuss it with people, and yes, they really get startled when I say we are going to start a monastery, but after I explain it, it makes sense to them. Much love, –(Mrs.) Robin M. (Christian Cultural Development Foundation; Fort Lauderdale, Florida)
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I have visited your site with great delight, especially the page about Lectio Divina. I am a Protestant Chaplain who specialized in patristic studies. In my first dissertation I researched Scripture authority with the post-Apostolic Fathers, and I am presently doing research on oracles of God, a comparative study of Apostolic Christianity and its Greco Roman world. Please pray that my research may make a difference to the Church and the academic world. Yours in Christ, –Dr. Benno Z. (Tasmania, Australia)
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I found your website and wonder if you could offer any suggestions regarding some options for an overnight prayer retreat…thanks for your input. I will definitely have to explore your website more fully. Very intriguing! Shalom, -John K., PhD (Director of Adult Spiritual Formation, Harbor Covenant Church, Washington State)
“Céad Míle Fáilte!”
“100,000 Welcomes!”
-Old Gaelic Saying
“In no other way can the believer become as fully involved with God’s work, especially the work of world evangelism, as in intercessory prayer.”
-Dick Eastman, President of America’s National Prayer Committee; Author: “The Hour that Changes the World”
“As I have said elsewhere, I was blessed to be able to personally attend Dick Eastman’s teaching during my early twenties, in the ministry that he Founded: “The Change the World School of Prayer,”
…And then again to do so, many years later with Lay Monk Linda, when he was President of the worldwide “Every Home for Christ” ministry (formerly: “Christian Literature Crusade”).”
-Lay Monk Preston
I am a Christian, and want to grow in prayer and intimacy with the Lord. I currently am serving in my local church Body as the leader of our prayer ministry. I am intrigued by your website, and have spent quite awhile reading your pages.
I believe your disciplines could help me mature in Christ, and am considering applying to join the monastic order. Most of the content on your site really glorifies God, and is completely Biblical, and I was blessed to read it. I think it is great that you leave the non-essentials out of requirements for your membership…
Your website is literally one of the most uplifting, godly websites I have ever read, even among the more heavily publicized and heavily funded ones. Grace and peace in our Lord Jesus Christ, -Shelley (Indianapolis, Indiana)
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Thanks a lot for what you are doing. That’s the heart of the ministry which the church has left already. I’m…based in Northern Uganda. Twenty years of pain caused by the Rebels on the innocent civilians. Have been to southern Sudan which I always visit once every year for evangelism. The pain is too much… Thanks, –Evangelist Geoffrey M. (Uganda)
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Dear Friends, I was directed to your website after some brothers visited it and determined “it was meant for me.” I have always been a monk of sorts. Though I am married and a teacher, I have lived a monastic lifestyle for decades. I would like to be a part of what you are doing, even perhaps beginning a fellowship here in the mountains of West Virginia. Peace, -Brother + Dr. Mike K., ThD, DD, PhD (Western Evangelical Bible College, West Virginia)
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I recently discovered your website and have found it to be very encouraging and a wonderful resource. So much of the content resounds with my spirit and I am very grateful. I believe that your work and ministry is God-honoring, joyful and full of grace. Yours most sincerely in Christ Jesus our Lord, –Pam B. (Staff, First Presbyterian Church, Pennsylvania)
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Just a thank you for a great webpage. So much excellent information collected in one place–great work. I found your site while doing some research on Christian History and early monasticism for a Sunday School class I’m leading (I attend an Evangelical Covenant Church). -Doug (Arvada, Colorado)
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My name is Patrick and I am incredibly intrigued by your website. I have been a Christian for 32 years and lived in a Christian community for about five years in the mid-seventies. I am married and…have been teaching in the Calvary Chapel School of Ministry for a few years.
I teach College-level classes in Church History, Apologetics, and O.T. Survey. I have been a teacher and lay preacher for several years now, teaching and preaching on a wide variety of subjects. Pax Vobiscum, -Patricius (Lay Preacher, Teacher; Calvary Chapel School of Ministry, California)
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I’m a Cuban girl residing in Miami, Florida. I was surfing on “Christian
Missionaries” and somehow stumbled across your site. WOW! God bless you!
My grandfather and dad have pastored. My dad and mom, Jesús and Cristy, are currently pastoring in Miami affiliated with the Church of God in Anderson, Indiana.
I myself want to serve God, so I’m attending Warner Southern College in Lake Wales, Florida. I have been struggling with the idea of serving God with all I have and getting married. But I saw Monk Linda and she’s just glowing Holy Spirit all over her. All I know is that I want to glow Holy Spirit too! Love you guys. Blessings in the Lord our God! -Cristilyn (Florida)
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I have been pleasantly surprised to know that there are Protestant Monks. Devotion to God I believe is the highest calling here on this Earth…Thanks for the prayer!
-Elleni (Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia)
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Hello Friends, I want to thank you for your ministry of intercession. It is the front lines. I think that this is the most comprehensive site I have found and I am sure that I have seen a couple of thousand on prayer.
I am a missionary returning from the Philippines. I prayed…I was even able to reach the NPA Communists in the mountains. I am looking for direction as to what God will have for me to do next. Keep up the good work! -Michael B. (Missionary, Philippines)
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“Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.”
-A.B. Simpson (1843-1919) Founder: The Christian & Missionary Alliance Church
MiSSiOnaRy QuOtES:
Christ’s “GREAT COMMISSION:”
“Go into all the world, and tell the Good News to everyone!”
-Mark 16:15
“For daily I expect to be murdered or betrayed or reduced to slavery if the occasion arises.
But I fear nothing, because of the promises of Heaven; for I have cast myself into the hands of Almighty God, who reigns everywhere.”
“I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.”
-St. Patrick (386-461 A.D.) “Apostle to Ireland”
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“Alone with none but Thee, my God, I journey on my way; what need I fear when Thou art near, Oh King of night and day?
More safe am I within Thy hand than if a host did ’round me stand.”
-St. Columba (521-597 A.D.) “Apostle to Scotland”
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“The man or woman at home who prays often has as much to do with the effectiveness of the missionary on the field,
and consequently with the results of his or her labors, as the missionary.”
-R. A. Torrey (1856-1928) Congregational Pastor Successor to Dwight L. Moody’s Ministry of Worldwide Evangelism
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“Make your people known for the unity and profession of their faith. Inspire the hearts of your people with your word and your teaching.
You called us to preach the Gospel of your Christ and to encourage them to lives and works pleasing to you.”
“However tired and physically worn out I am, I will go with joy to that land; with joy I depart for the sake of the Christian faith.”
-St. Cyril (826-869 A.D.) (With his brother, St. Methodius) “Apostles to the Slavs” _____________________
“Here I am, Lord, send me; send me to the ends of the earth; send me to the rough, the savage pagans of the wilderness;
send me from all that is called comfort in earth, or earthly comfort: send me to death itself, if it be but in Thy service and to promote Thy kingdom.”
-St. Francis Xavier (1506-1552) Co-Founder of the Jesuit Order; Missionary to India, China; “Apostle to Borneo and Japan”
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“It is no small comfort to me to know that God has called me to my work, putting me where I am and as I am.
I have not sought the position, and I dare not leave it. He knows why He places me here – whether to do, or learn, or suffer.”
“The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.”
-J. Hudson Taylor (1832-1905) Founder: China Inland Mission Apostle to Inland China”
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We can reach our world if we will. The greatest lack today is not people or funds. The greatest need is prayer.”
-Wesley Duewel (1916-2016), Missionary to India — Head of OMS International (One Mission Society)
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“The Cross is not just a message. It is a way of life.”
“The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.”
-Samuel Zwemer (1867-1952) “Apostle to Islam”
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