TRANSFORMATIONS - 'When God Comes to Town'

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What Kinds of Things Can Happen When God ¡¥Comes to Town¡¦??
TRANSFORMATIONS VANCOUVER
Who is the Sentinel Group?
Some additional RESOURCES to assist your city or town in these directions
+ The Nations Called: Theology of The Nations and Their Redemption - a trilogy of books about God's heart for the redemption of cities and nations

Healing the Land Conference - Oct 19-22, 2005 - Fort Worth, TX

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What Kinds of Things Can Happen When God Comes to Town??

Watch TRANSFORMATIONS to find out!

A new phenomenon has begun in the earth in the past couple of decades which now seems to be increasing around the globe!

As churches begin to pray together in unity, God is able to do FAR MORE than we have asked or imagined! We want to see our cities and nations discipled? TRANSFORMATIONS provides some powerful examples of what God is doing in cities around the world in these days!

***The second Transformations video is now available and can be ordered through TRANSFORMATIONS VANCOUVER

TRANSFORMATIONS

Transformations - George, in a video produced by George Otis Jnr, says, "Imagine a community where 80% of the population is born-again, where city jails have been closed for lack of crime...where agricultural productivity has reached biblical proportions. George Otis Jr. presents a powerful and inspirational documentary of how the power of prayer is transforming cities around the world...¡¨ ¡§¡KJourney with George Otis Jnr to four transformed communities on three continents and learn how prayer can change your own neighbourhood¡K¡¨

¡§¡KWhat do Almolonga, Guatemala; Cali, Colombia; Hemet, California; and Kiambu, Kenya have in common? They are all communities in which God is bringing about amazing transformation--as a result of fervent, persistent prayer.

Almolonga used to be a community devastated by alcoholism, high unemployment, and crime. Now this city of 20,000 is 80 percent Christian, is the breadbasket of the country, and has no jails. The church in Cali comes together quarterly for all-night prayer sessions, asking God to pour out His Spirit on its community. More than 60,000 believers from 200-plus churches gather in the city's soccer stadium for these sessions. Cali still possesses problems, but since these events began, the notorious drug cartels have disappeared, and churches are experiencing tremendous growth. Hemet has seen its drug trafficking and gang problems diminish substantially since their prayer efforts began. And Kiambu, a city of 60,000, which was steeped in witchcraft, has experienced church growth in the wake of prayer--significant in an area where no church has ever grown beyond 30 or 40 believers.

The story of these communities is documented on Transformation, a video produced by George Otis Jr. and The Sentinel Group, We recommend the video to show churches and communities that God does indeed move when they pray. At a recent viewing during a City Transformation Conference in Woodbridge, Virginia, this June, when the credits started, the entire 500-plus audience leaped to their feet in praise--not for the video, but in genuine praise for what God has done. This applause lasted for more than five minutes.

Pray! highly recommends this video for churches, small groups, and community gatherings.

To purchase, call (800) 668-5657; or send $29.95 ($24.95US plus $5.00 shipping/handling) to:
The Sentinel Group
P.O. Box 6334
Lynnwood, WA 98036

Or contact: Sentinel Group in Canada for Canadians
Email: sentinel-canada@home.com

PLEASE NOTE:
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The second video of Transformations in other cities around the world, including the Baffin Island region, is about to be released as well so you may wish to order that one as well ¡V in or after Apr2001 ¡V a pastor friend has seen it and says it¡¦s fantastic!)

These videos can also be purchased through this web site address ¡V click < a href="http://www.churchofhayward.org/transform.htm">HERE.
Email: wcnnews2@aol.com
„h call tollfree within the USA: 1 (888) WCN-NEWS (926-6397)
„h call from outside the USA: 1 (719) 380-0507
„h Fax: 1 (719) 380-0936
„h By mail: WorldChristian News, PO Box 26479, Colorado Springs, CO 80936 USA:

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WHO IS THE SENTINEL GROUP?
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The Sentinel Group is a research group that offers training and resources for those who are interested in spiritual mapping and community transformation. These include live regional seminars, a dedicated electronic mailing list called "The Mapper's Forum," a dramatic video documentary on transformed communities called "Transformations," and a variety of training videos, books, tapes, and transparencies.

For more information, contact:

1-800-668-5657
The Sentinel Group
P.O. Box 6334
Lynnwood, WA 98036
(425) 672-2989
Fax: (425) 672-3028
Orders: (877) 672-2989
E-mail: SentinelGp@aol.com
Website: www.SentinelGroup.org
People to Contact: George Otis Jr., president; Paul Scotchmer, editor

Or contact: Sentinel Group in Canada for Canadians
Email: sentinel-canada@home.com

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SOME ADDITIONAL RESOURCES to assist your city or town in these directions:
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City Reaching: On the Road to Community Transformation
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¡V this excellent handbook is not a book which will lay out a fool-proof plan for you in seeing your city reached, but instead will help to provide examples from other cities where transformation has occurred and principles that those facilitating this process in the cities have found helpful, as well as notes potential obstacles and ways that they can potentially be overcome.

TRANSFORMING VANCOUVER, BC
Click here: Welcome to
www.transformvan.org

City Reaching Quiz

What is Prayer Evangelism?

Light the Nation 2 hr video re being a lighthouse

A Discipled Nation Plan

Books on Transformation

Recommended Reading re Transformation

Transformation video stirs eagerness for revival ¡V news story

The Twilight Labyrinth: Why Does Spiritual Darkness Linger Where It Does? - book

CitiReach International
CitiReach International is an agency committed to fanning the worldwide flames of city reaching. The commitment out of which CitiReach was begun is a deep conviction that God loves the city and He wants to reach it. God's wants to reclaim the city and its people with his only available instrument: the Church.

Christ For Your City (Canadian ministry)

Blessings ¡V Strategic Intercession, Revival, etc.

Christian Community Development Association - this ministry is vitally involved in seeing cities transformed practically in addition to prayer/intercession/reconciliation, etc. Excellent resources available!

International Intercessors Network

PASSION ¡V ministry
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Passion is a facilitator which exists to help the church to
„h work together in unity for the city or regions
„h mobilise every member to "pastor the world"
„h implement prayer strategies to clear the heavens
„h network training opportunities
„h establish repentance & reconciliation in place of sin & division
„h go deeper and richer in experiencing the Holy Spirit's presence & equipping
„h transform it's community

They have 4 Community Transformation tapes available through their web site:

Community Transformations Tapes
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¡§These four tapes provide essential tools for changing the mindsets that prevent the transformation of our communities and show how the church must be re-orientated.

1. Reaching the Land together - prophetic understanding of the current time and help in negotiating the transition of the church towards the transformation of our towns and cities.

2. Sins of the Fathers ¡V understanding the impact of past sin on a community or nation and demonstrating how these sins can be dealt with through the cross.

3. Talking to the cities ¡V a Biblical study of how whole nations and cities can be saved.

4. Tracks for revival ¡V getting to grips with the necessity of local unity and mobilising Lighthouses of Prayer.¡¨
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Discovering Your City: Bringing Light to the Task of Community Transformation - book

Prayer Transforms a City - article

HEAL THE LAND Handbook - by Inuit Ministry International (34 pgs.)
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Very helpful in beginning to consider the need to deal with land and First Nations issues. ¡§¡KIf my people with humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, THEN I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and HEAL THEIR LAND.¨ (Chron.) To order contact: IMI, PO Box 81270, Fairbanks, AK 99708 908-455-6342
Email: imi1@juno.com Fax: 907-479-3613

BEYOND RAVEN'S VEIL: Spiritual Mapping Canada¡¦s West Coast
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by Darryl Jones
Gives some very helpful insight into the foundations of N. American nations and the need to deal with these issues through prayer and spiritual warfare as a crucial and priority aspect of seeing our nation transformed. First Nations spirits and practices impacting our nations are looked at as a major aspect of this.

To order this 132 page book, for further information contact: Darryl Jones, PO Box 66, Tlell, BC V0T 1Y0 Canada

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