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Jim Wilson taught for over a decade in
California public schools before making a decision to enter the
ministry in 1981. He graduated from Seabury-Western Theological
Seminary in 1985 and was ordained in the Episcopal Church, where
he served congregations in California and Virginia for sixteen
years. From that vantage point he has seen and celebrated the work
of God’s Holy Spirit in charismatic, evangelical and mainline
bodies with equal awe and enthusiasm. He and his wife, Diana,
launched PrayNorthstate in February 2001, making it their
full-time ministry in June of that year.
Jim has taught workshops and seminars in
personal evangelism, congregational development and leadership
training, spiritual giftings, and the simple majesty of God’s
creation since 1994. He has been in demand as a speaker and
teacher in many west coast locations and his ministry crosses
denominational and cultural barriers as he shares the wonder of
God’s call to the Body of Christ to become a genuinely
cooperative Body. He has published more than two hundred articles
in various newspapers and periodicals and he hosts a popular
weekly radio program.
Since 2001 Jim has offered more than thirty
intercessors’ summits which are designed to teach the principles
of prayer evangelism and warfare by honor as they provide
simultaneous opportunities to practice these principles. He and
Diana have established the ministries of Prayer Vanguard and
Lighthouses of Prayer in fifteen Northern California communities.
Jim and Diana share a passion to seed ten
thousand intercessors across Northern California – praying for
their neighbors, their communities, and God’s Kingdom harvest.
Their passion – and their ministry – is PrayNorthstate.
PrayNorthstate is a ministry of cooperation,
encouragement and proclamation.
The mission of PrayNorthstate is to facilitate,
encourage and proclaim the move of God to unite and renew the Body
of Christ in the Northstate.
The vision of PrayNorthstate is to baptize the
Northstate into the Kingdom of God, teaching one another to
observe all things that Jesus commanded.
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To see Christians in the Northstate
understanding themselves as one Church of many congregations
– demonstrating the integrity of every part while
celebrating the unity of the Body of Christ
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To see the Northstate region soaked in
prayer for evangelism and God’s present Kingdom
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To see healing of relations between
people groups in the Northstate and the subsequent healing of
the very land beneath our feet
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To see a united Body of Christ meeting
needs in the Northstate so as to demonstrate God’s
unqualified and unfathomable love to every person under heaven
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To deploy two thousand lighthouses of
prayer by January 2004
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To offer annual gatherings for
intercessors to blanket their cities with prayer
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To offer monthly Prayer Vanguards to
churches, schools, and businesses
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To raise up volunteer coordinators in
each county served by this ministry
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To become financially stable by January
2004
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