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An interdenominational group of intercessors goes out once a month from a central location to visit churches, schools and businesses. While onsite they pray God’s blessings on the location, those who staff it, and those whom God has placed in authority over it. They ask God to bless only those concerns which are authorized by the host pastor, administrator or business owner. They visit only sites where they are welcomed by host leaders. 

Participants must have their pastor’s permission to attend and be teachable as to praying only blessings and what we call sowing in the opposite spirit.

Prayer Vanguard began in 1998 after God gave to Diana a vision of Christians being proactive in blessing their neighbors and colleagues in the Body instead of reactive to various crises that might be presented. Initially only churches were visited. Later the ministry was expanded to include schools – both public and private – and local businesses. 

Today the ministry operates in ten Northstate communities spread over six counties and each Vanguard group has its own locally trained and commissioned leadership. More than twenty public schools – in four counties – are presently included in the ministry with the blessing of local administrators.

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Lighthouses of Prayer was initiated in the late 1990s in various parts of the country and by various ministries. It is a very simple ministry in which individuals and families covenant to pray daily for the blessing of five of their neighboring families by name. 

PrayNorthstate trains Christians for this ministry and establishes a supportive infrastructure in each participating congregation. As in the case of Prayer Vanguard, participants must have the blessing of their pastor and be teachable in terms of praying only blessings and sowing in the opposite spirit.

A Lighthouse ministry is established alongside Prayer Vanguard whenever we begin to serve in a new community. PrayNorthstate sponsored Lighthouse ministries operate in the same ten communities as the Prayer Vanguard. 

We have seen the neighbors who receive sustained and focused prayer transforms in ways both subtle and dramatic as time passes and the prayers continue. When these ministries are introduced into congregations in communities in which they already exist we simply integrate the new with the old. 

A Lighthouse ministry is designed to be integrated into the existing prayer and small group ministries of a congregation rather than become a new focus of attention.

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Intercessors’ Summits are teaching and training events in which participants are prepared to serve in Prayer Vanguard and Lighthouses of Prayer. 

A summit is held on a Friday Evening and all day Saturday in a local hosting church and members of nearby congregations are invited to attend with their pastor’s permission. 

In the Friday session Jim teaches the concepts of prayer for blessing and sowing in the opposite spirit. He shares the vision God has given along with some of the awe inspiring stories of what God has been doing in front of all of us in Northern California over the past few years. 

On Saturday he offers practical do’s and don’ts for these ministries and sends the people out to practice what they have learned in the host church and in the surrounding neighborhoods. The host pastor teaches during one of the afternoon sessions and the whole body joins for a communion and commissioning service to conclude the event.

There is a cost of $20.00 per person to attend and breakfast and lunch are included on Saturday. Dates and locations of current and upcoming summits are featured in the monthly PrayNorthstate newsletter and on PrayNorthstate Radio.

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Yah is a Northern California Native American name for God. The word means exactly what we mean when we refer to God as Yahweh or Jehovah. 

The Yah Project is an effort to recruit and train ten thousand Christians to pray daily for the Kingdom of God to come in power to Northern California. The concept is based on Hawaii’s Spiritual Warfare Project – in which ten thousand Christians of all denominations prayed for several years for Hawaii to know God’s Kingdom. At a climactic moment in the project intercessors fanned out and occupied sites of pagan worship and atrocity. They blessed, forgave and celebrated communion on land they occupied only with permission of the owners. Signs and wonders occurred throughout the island – including sites that had been ecologically dead erupting with new plant and animal life. Thousands of people received Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior over the following months. God is calling us to go and do likewise

In addition to praying daily for the Kingdom to come, we ask Yah Project members to select one hour each Sunday to be in prayer for Northern California and then for the whole state of California. We ask that prayer be made for things we understand to be impossible – like full employment and a crime and divorce free region – because we believe God when He says in Luke 18:27 that what is impossible for men and women is possible for Him. 

We call on one another to pray for our region and state as though we were each the widow who continually sought out the unjust judge in Luke 18.

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On the first Sunday of each month we gather at 7:00 PM in the Espresso Bar of Redding’s Holiday Inn – on Hilltop Drive. Anyone naming Jesus as the Way and the Truth and the Life is welcome to join with us for worship and strategic intercessory prayer. 

The service begins with communion for all. It features sessions of worship followed by brief preaching followed by sessions of strategic intercession in the spirit and style of the Yah Project. Simplicity is the order of the day and people are encouraged to stay with us as long as they are able – but to feel free to come and go as they please. 

The aim is to call on the Lord Almighty to transform the region of Northern California as He has done in some one hundred eighty communities around the world when a strategic number of people of prayer seek Him consistently, concertedly, and with focus on what He calls important.

The scriptural template is Matthew 11:2-6 – in which the dead are raised and the lepers cured, the blind and the deaf restored and the poor hear good news – and the Kingdom is populated by those who take no offense at Jesus. The model for our worship is 2 Chronicles 7:14 – in which God’s people who are called by His name humble themselves and pray and seek His face. Transformation comes – in the words of George Otis Jr. – when the people seek God to the exclusion of all other things.

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On the first and third Thursdays of each month this group of local believing business persons gathers at a local restaurant from 12:30 to 2:00 PM for prayer, fellowship, and vision casting. Prayer is offered to God for the Kingdom transformation of the community and region. 

Members of the group update each other on ministry projects in which they are involved and seek vision for new ways in which to bless the community. Meetings are for prayer and fellowship only, but members are welcome to schedule voluntary meetings outside of the Thursday format for planning events that emerge from the shared vision of some or all of the members of the group.

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PrayNorthstate Radio is heard on AM 1400 KQMS on Saturdays at 7:30 AM. Jim interviews one or two Christians who are doing ministry outside of the box. The program – which is sponsored by believing business persons – is the most listened-to for its time slot for the past three years. Jim also contributes to Radio KVIP’s Saturday Magazine – heard at 1:00 PM on Saturdays on FM 98.1 and AM 540.

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PrayNorthstate cooperates with and co-sponsors ministry efforts that emphasize cooperation across congregational or denominational lines, reconciliation activities, and any effort that operates in Kingdom terms "outside of the box." 

Examples include last year’s Freedom Festival – in which more than 3000 young people heard the Gospel at a free concert featuring the Supertones and various local Christian bands, this year’s county commemoration of September 11 – in which local officials shared their faith as well as their patriotism from the courthouse steps, and The Bible: Up Close and Personal – in which the whole of Scripture was read from the steps of the Redding City Hall by more than two hundred and fifty Christians representing more than twenty churches.

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Jim serves as the Northern regional facilitator for the Pray California Fellowship – a statewide network of intercessory and reconciliation ministries seeking to blanket California in prayer. Jim also serves on the Prophetic Listening Team for Pray Cal.

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Jim is a regular contributor to the Christian Quarterly, the Christian Journal, Real Life and Times, California Christian News, and the Northern California Christian Times. He also contributes on a regular basis to such secular publications as the Redding Record-Searchlight, and the Siskiyou County Daily News.

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PrayNorthstate Radio is heard on Saturdays from 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM on KBLF AM 1490 and 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM on
KNTK Mt. Shasta FM 102.3 & Yreka FM 101.7
Sunday 7:00 AM to 8:00 AM on KLXR AM 1230 Redding

PrayNorthstate TV is seen on Mondays from 6:30 AM to 7:00 AM on Fox 30/Cable 2.

The Rev. James and Diana Wilson

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P. O. Box 493743

Redding, CA 96049-3743

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530-941-3470

Email

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