Treasured Prayers for Treasured People

About the Book

As the church breathes it prays, and as the church prays it breathes. The church cannot live without praying, and the world cannot live without the church’s prayer. Prayer is the intake of the life-giving breath of the Spirit and the exhale of the heart’s cry of salvation for the church and the world. Prayer may be the most significant and transformative act that the church can minister. By it one heart can change the world, and the world can change one heart – The Power of Prayer. As we pray, we pray as one people, one body. There is power in agreement for where two or more are gathered together in God’s name there Christ is in the midst. This book of prayers offers a liturgical space and strategy for the local church to come together and make supplication to change the world. It is a book that provides guidance and assurance throughout the year, a resource for both laity and clergy and is a reminder that prayer is the treasure of the Christian life. I invite you to open your heart as you open this book and Heaven will open as you pray for God’s Kingdom to come into the world in every place great and small. Amen. Rev. Peter J. Bellini Ph.D. Assistant Professor in the Practice of Missiology in the Vera Blinn Chair and Director of Non-Degree Programs, United Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio

About the Author

Andrew D. Kinsey, an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, serves as the senior pastor of Grace United Methodist Church in Franklin, Indiana. He has also served churches in Terre Haute, Brownsburg, and Vincennes, and currently serves as the Wesleyan Theologian on the Leadership Table of the Indiana Conference. He holds a B.A. in Pre-Theology from University of Evansville, a Master of Divinity from Candler School of Theology, and a Doctor of Ministry from Perkins School of Theology. In 2011 he was awarded the Pastor-Preacher-Scholar Award from the Wesleyan Theological Society. Jenothy Irvine Rather, an ordained American Baptist pastor, serves as associate pastor at Grace United Methodist Church in Franklin, where she has oversight of children, youth, women, prayer, and adult ministries. She is also a trained Stephen Leader Minister. Jenothy holds a B.A. in Elementary Education from the University of Wyoming and a Master of Divinity from Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City. She has served as youth director and associate pastor at First Baptist Church in Terre Haute. In 1997 she was awarded the Franklin Lorenzo Streeter Award for Excellence in Biblical Interpretation. Jenothy’s pastoral prayers have prompted deeper awareness of the importance of prayer in the life of worship.