New York City Virtual Prayer Journey Virtual Prayer Journey York City

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New York CityVirtual Prayer Journey Virtual
Prayer Journey York City

• Lets Take Christ to our
  Nations Largest City!
• Virtual Prayer Journey

Lets Take Christ to our Nations Largest City!
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Manhattan
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PEOPLE

• The island of Manhattan is home to 1,537,195
  people. Many who learned about the frailty and
  uncertainty of life on 9/11 are still in need of
  a saving relationship with Jesus Christ.
• Pray that God will cause people to recognize
  their need for a Savior and be drawn to Jesus in
  faith.

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UNITED NATIONS

• Pray for Christian diplomats to grow strong in
  their faith and to provide a genuine and
  appealing witness to Christ.
• Pray that God will create opportunities for
  fruitful witness to those who need Christ.
• Pray that many will meet the Prince of Peace.

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BUSINESS FINANCE

• Pray that Christians will live lives of honesty
  and integrity in their work places.
• Pray that God would use the stresses and
  uncertainties of todays business climate to
  cause people to seek a sure foundation in Jesus
  Christ.

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MEDIA

• Pray for Christians in media to live exemplary
  lives of purity and holiness.
• Pray that God will cause media decision makers to
  make wholesome choices that will influence young
  lives for good not evil.

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Entertainment
In New York City
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Television Film Industries

• There are
• 40,000 location shoots each year
• (including commercials, feature films, TV shows
  series, music videos, documentaries, etc.)
• 60-90 Daily productions
• Over 250 a year feature films
• 100,000 employed through entertainment production

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Times Square

• Approx. 26 million annual tourists with 3.9
  million overnight stays in local hotels annually.
  
• 40 theaters including all 22 landmark Broadway
  theatres.
• 11.5 million Broadway tickets sold in the
  1997-1998 season

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Times Square (Continued)

• Approximately 1,500,000 daily passers-by
  including 344,000 riders in or out of the Times
  Square subway station and 185,000 commuters from
  the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Annually,
  53,000,000 people enter Times Square's subway
  stations.
• 500,000 people come to Times Square on New Year's
  Eve. 500 million more watch the festivities on
  television worldwide

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Rockefeller Center

• The arcade of Rockefeller Center is the most
  popular route of tourists. Entering on Fifth
  Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets, the center
  gardens make way to the sub-ground restaurant
  area which, as most are familiar with, becomes an
  ice skating rink in wintertime.
• NBC installed a storefront studio on 49th Street
  and Rockefeller Plaza where each weekday morning,
  Matt Lauer Meredith Vieira host the Today show.
  Many visitors come down and can watch and maybe
  become a part of the program!
• When it opened as a movie palace in 1932, Radio
  City Music Hall was graced by such stars as Clark
  Gable and Charlie Chaplin.

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Rockefeller Center (Cont.)

• Rockefeller Center is an art deco marvel
  consisting of 19 commercial buildings covering 11
  acres in midtown Manhattan from 49th to 52nd
  Streets, Fifth to Seventh Avenues.
• Completed in 1934, 30 Rockefeller Plaza became
  the RCA headquarters. General Electric's initials
  now brighten the rooftop of the home of NBC.

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Prayer Points

• Call forth the creativity to express and to
  celebrate who God is through entertainment! All
  of creation worships and gives him glory and so
  must we.
• Pray for transformation, that righteousness and
  integrity would be brought back into
  entertainment. That once again we would see
  family values set in place and honored.

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Prayer Points (cont.)

• Pray that honor and blessing would come to those
  believers who are in the midst of this area.
• Psalm 512 For You O Lord, will bless the
  righteous with favor You will surround him as
  with shield.
• Call forth a spirit of excellence in every area.
• Genesis 131, Then God looked over all he had
  made, and saw that it was excellent in every way.

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EMPIRE STATE BUILDING I NORTH
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North View

• Pray for the workers in the Garment District.
• Pray for the Public Library and the resources
  that are placed there that influence people.
• Pray for the people working in news and media
  companies located in and around Rockefeller
  Center.
• Pray that God will use Central Park as a place
  where people receive a witness and come to faith
  in Christ.

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Northwest View

• Pray for members of historic Riverside church
  that it will have the Christian influence God
  intends for it to have.
• Pray for Northern New Jersey and the masses of
  people who need Christ and churches to attend.
• Pray for the staff of Metropolitan New York
  Baptist Association as it leads Southern Baptist
  Churches and church planting efforts from their
  headquarters on West 72nd Street.

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EMPIRE STATE BUILDING II WEST
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West View

• Pray for the people who work and shop at places
  like Macys and Herald Square, for safety and
  that they would come to know Christ.
• Pray for the people who attend the many events
  that take place in Madison Square Garden that
  Gods purposes will be accomplished in their
  lives.

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West View

• Pray for Jersey City and the need for many new
  churches to reach a growing imigrant population.
• Pray for the pastors and teams that will be
  starting new churches in the Hells Kitchen area
  of Manhattan and in Hoboken, NJ.

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Empire State Building III South
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South View

• Pray for New York Harbor and for protection for
  the city. Pray that God will touch the many
  international seamen who pass through this port.
• Pray for the churches on Staten Island. Pray for
  the many depressed families on the Island who
  lost loved ones in the World Trade Center
  attacks.
• Pray for the Financial District and the people
  who work there. Pray for our nations economy and
  that God would convict us of the sins of greed
  and materialism.

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South View (cont)

• Pray, as you view the Statue of Liberty and Ellis
  Island, for the immigrants that enter the
  country. Pray that they would come to know Christ
  and that some will return to their native land as
  missionaries of Christ.
• Pray for the people of Greenwich Village who have
  adopted ungodly alternate lifestyles who need to
  experience the saving power of Jesus Christ.
• Pray for the development of campus ministries at
  NYU.

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Southwest View

• Pray for the churches in New Jersey and the needs
  for many more churches to reach the masses who
  live there.
• Pray for the people who work in the flea and
  flower markets.
• Pray for the people who work in the Verizon
  Building. Pray that communication systems in the
  City be used to share the gospel.

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Southeast View

• Pray for the East Village and the many people who
  live there.
• Pray for Alphabet City (including Avenues A, B,
  C and D) and the many ethnic people who live
  there.
• Pray for Chinatown and the economic downturn that
  effects so many.
• Pray for the Fuchow emigrants from mainland China
  and the need for churches to reach them. Pray for
  David Gu and his new church outreach to the
  Chinese.

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Empire State Building IV East
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East View

• Pray for the churches in Brooklyn to have a
  powerful influence for Christ.
• Pray for JFK Airport as a Gateway to the City.
• Pray for the large numbers of people living in
  the apartments buildings you see. Ask God to
  reveal ways to reach and develop churches for all
  these people.

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North East View

• Pray for churches located in the Bronx. Pray for
  a social and religious transformation of that
  borough.
• Pray for the encouragement of churches located on
  Long Island, that they would join God in winning
  their Island for Christ.
• Pray for the churches located in Queens as they
  seek to reach the many different ethnic peoples
  of the largest populated borough in New York City.

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North East View (cont)

• Pray for LaGuardia Airport as a Gateway to the
  City that God would protect the city from future
  terrorist attacks.
• Pray for the United Nations. Pray that all the
  nations come to know Christ.

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Colleges Universities
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• Pray that God will reveal where He is already at
  work or wanting to work on campuses as Christians
  seek to identify priority campuses for new
  collegiate ministries. There are 191 institutions
  and 946,997 students in Metro NY! Here are some
  of the larger schools in the area

Rutgers University 51,480 New York University
38,096 Columbia University 22,393 SUNY, Stony
Brook 21,989 Nassau Community C. 21,239 Hunter
College 20,607 St. Johns University 19,288 Borou
gh of Mann. CC 17,635 Queens College 16,604
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Pray for Columbia University that it will once
againadvance the glory of Almighty God

• Kings College Founded in the Province of New
  York
• by Royal Charter in the reign of George II
• Perpetuated as Columbia College by the people of
  the State of New York - They became free and
  independent maintained and cherished from
  generation to generation for the advancement of
  the public good and
• the glory of Almighty God

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Praying for Ethnic Church Planting
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• Metro New York is probably the most ethnically
  diverse city in the world. Unreached people
  groups from around the globe live and work here.
  Many are more open to hearing and responding to
  the gospel here than they possibly could be
  surrounded by the pressures of cultural religion
  in their native lands.
• Even restaurants reveal the diversity.

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• Pray that God would draw people to saving faith
  in Christ from every people group.
• Pray that God would call men from within each
  people group who will serve as pastors.
• Pray that Christ will build His church so that
  the gates of Hell will not prevail against it.

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• Pray that God will provide places for home groups
  and for large-group worship services.
• Pray that new believers will grow quickly into
  mature disciples.
• Pray that God will call some who will return to
  their home countries to carry the gospel of
  Christ to their own people.

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Language Groups in NYC
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CHURCHES
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• Pray that God will refine and purify His people
  so that they will shine the Light of Christ
  brilliantly into the darkness.
• Pray that Gods people will live holy and godly
  lives, and spotless, blameless and at peace
  with him (2 Pet. 311,14).
• Pray that Gods people will put away worldliness
  and materialism and return to their first love
  for Christ

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Reaching High Rise Apartments

• Pray that God will reveal ways for churches to
  reach the hundreds of thousands who live isolated
  lives in high rise apartments. For example Lefrak
  City has 25,000 people in 20 buildings in a
  single self-contained community.

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Project Jerusalem (BBS)NYC Church Plant Prayer
Needs

• Team Leader resident, love for City
• Recruitment of BBS Team
• NYC Partner Churches
• Adequate Funding
• Location for 1st Multiethnic Plant
• Wisdom/ Gods Direction
  Church Design Model house or
  cell church?

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Produced by Ken DavisBBS Project Jerusalem
Director

• For more information on how you might be a part
  of a NYC church plant, contact Ken at
  kdavis_at_bbc.edu