Brief History Of Ministers Prayer Network
Ministers Prayer Network (MPN) started officially on January 18, 1995, with a simple and humble beginning. A few willing ministers of the gospel and some church workers, numbering between forty and sixty, gathered in response to the invitation of Rev. Mosy U. Madugba at Cornerstone Foundation Hall, No.2B Ozuzu Close, D/Line in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. This group was mainly made up of leaders of some ancillary ministries to the church.
Aims And Objectives Of MPN
The aims and objectives are to create a network of well coordinated forum for prayers, strong and dynamic biblical leadership in the Body of Christ. To provide a network of platforms where those who minister from the altar, and/or in the fields, can come together and speak the bare truth to themselves. In sincerity and simplicity, they will rebuke, exhort and pray for one another; basically as a family of brothers and sisters, without any religious stratifications or classifications.
Recently, the Holy Spirit led us to wake up Christians in the family of God to effectively guard the spiritual gates of their families, cities, states, nations and continents for the Kingdom. The forum therefore is aimed at raising and training men/women as prophetic gatekeepers to man their gates at all levels.
We have seen God awakening us to play the role of spiritual midwives to help the Church in travail to give birth to the glorious Church with an Apostolic and Prophetic mandate as we march to the end of the age. We therefore help the Church to understand what God’s agenda is for her in this season and to know the challenges facing her as she flows in this prophetic and apostolic era. Through the Conferences and/or the seminars and training sessions of the network, we bring to the understanding of the Church what the prophetic and apostolic era entails.
MPN provides a forum for those in ministry, laity and clergy inclusive, in neighbourhoods and cities all over the world to pursue the following aims and objectives:
1.Come together as brothers and sisters to frankly encourage, pray for and mutually release grace to one another so that we can have corporate growth and maturity, without stifling, but enhancing individual initiatives in pursuit of excellence in ministry.
2.Discover the areas we have strong graces in ministry and focus our energy on those areas, as against having a long list of too many things to be done by one person or ministry that never gets done properly.
3. Be encouraged and helped to carry our families along in ministry.
4. Pray and work for the healing of our cities, nations and society until the required positive changes occur.
5. Discover what the divine calendar of God is for our generation and personally pursue such as well as encourage others to do same.
6. Help Christian elders in the cities to wake up to their spiritual responsibilities and meet regularly so as to fulfill their divine roles; like keeping spiritual surveillance over their cities. Establish Christian Elders Forum in cities where none exists. Functions of such City Elders Forum are written in appendix 1, towards the end of the MPN Handbook.
7. Work together and encourage member ministers to turn the numerous people in our congregations into true disciples of Christ.
8. Provide up to date training for one another so that we can be relevant and effective in a changing world by organizing regular seminars, trainings, workshops and conferences.
Network with other prayer movements in our various countries, or in our continents; like Intercessors for Nigeria, Intercessors For Africa, Intercessors for America (IFA), National Pastors Prayer Network, (NPPN) USA, Elijah List, International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ), etc., to bring about a global prayer effort that is needed to finish the unfinished task. This is achieved by informing and encouraging members of the network to travel out to other states and other nations to attend and participate in such prayer and Christian Leadership Conferences that will enable them network with other Kingdom minded Christians in leadership positions.
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