Debra & Frank Green
City-Changing Prayer Imagine a regular city-wide gathering of Christians united and focused in prayer. Imagine the crime rate falling; teenagers praying; people beginning to believe that there’s something in this thing called prayer. Frank & Debra Green have seen all this and more over the ten years since they started to bring together Christians who occupy different churches but the same city. They have learnt lessons about how to foster mutual trust and spiritual fruitfulness, overcoming the obstacles both inside and outside the church family. Sample chapter...
Links: http://www.citylinks.org.uk/
Debra & Frank Green Bio
Debra Green is on the pastoral staff team at Ivy Cottage Church, Didsbury, Manchester with her husband Frank who is also the Director of Operations at The Message Trust. Debra and Frank live in Manchester with their four children.
Debra works part-time for the church with a number of responsibilities. She is part of the leadership team and is involved in co-ordinating the worship team. Debra is also involved in leading and preaching on Sundays. Her passion is to see people growing in Christ and using their spiritual gifts. She is a pioneer of prayer and prophetic ministries, and has travelled widely in the UK and abroad, teaching about prayer and outreach for cities.
Debra is the director of a charity formed in 2003 called City Links, which seeks to link cities across the UK and around the world to facilitate spiritual and social transformation through prayer and action. She provides consultancy on city-wide prayer and networking strategies which help to transform communities and make mission more effective. Debra is a regular speaker at conferences like Spring Harvest and at other churches around the UK.
In 2005 Survivor Books released Debra and Frank’s first book ‘City Changing Prayer’. “Imagine a regular city-wide gathering of Christians united and focused in prayer. Imagine a church that serves local institutions and asks nothing in return. Imagine the crime rate falling; teenagers praying; people beginning to believe that there’s something in this thing called prayer.”
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