prayer for pastor. an updated guide to praying for Pastor Wendell

What is this?

After receiving requests for this type of prayer guide, The City Church has developed this website to facilitate regularly updated prayer points for Pastors Wendell and Gini (as well as for The City Church itself). Designed to help you be timely, direct and strategic in your intercession, these points are provided by Pastor Wendell himself and are always fresh and relevant for what's going on in his life and the church.

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What to pray Updated June 10, 2008

Pastor's Health

  1. Primary prayer requests:
    • Praise God for steady blood count levels! Count has come down since last tests!
    • Praise God for new protocols and treatments being effective!
    • Pray for no side effects from medication
    • Pray for strength and energy levels to increase
    • Pray for strong bones and healthy bone marrow and blood
  2. Pray also for Pastor's responsibilities of preaching, teaching and writing
  3. Pray for extra grace with family, church and apostolic responsibilities

Pastors Family

  1. Pray for Pastor Gini
    • Abounding grace and strength
    • Wisdom leading The City Church staff
    • Grace on her teaching ministry
  2. Pray for good health for their family, abounding grace in ministry, more wisdom, protection from any devices of the enemy, and financial provision
  3. Pray for their children and grandchildren
    • Pastors Judah & Chelsea Smith (and their ministry to Generation Church, Seattle)
      Sons: Zion and Eliott
    • Pastors Benny and Wendy Perez (The Church at South Las Vegas)
      Children: BJ, Bella and new baby Benaiah

Strategy and schedule

  1. Upcoming preaching schedule at The City Church
    • Sunday Messages - Continued Series on "Healing"
    • Summer Messages coming up
  2. Upcoming Ministry:
    • June- City Kids Camps
    • Family Vacation break
    • July 28 - Network Pastor's Gathering
    • August- GC Camps
    • September- Vision Sunday and Vision Banquet (14th)
    • September 27th- Church Planters Meetings begin
    • October- Minister's Fellowship International Gathering
    • October- Church Growth Conference with Dr. Cho in Baton Rouge, LA
  3. Writing new Equipping materials this Year
    • Praise God for finished new Books: "You Were Healed" and Volume Three of the Pastoral Library on "Sacred Events"
    • Advanced Disciples Classes with DVDs and Manuals
    • Church Planting and Leadership materials