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7/13/03___________________________________________

I found your site through a search engine. I was looking for information on oblates. I have been visiting your site daily.
Your site is teeming with good information. A lot of work has obviously been put into it. Your efforts show! Your site is really great!
When I first looked at your 24-Hr. Prayerchain schedule chart, with the light and dark green squares, my first reaction was to look for a Legend to indicate what the colors represented. I didn't find one, but eventually found the instructions further down the page. A legend might make the schedule more appealing to beginners. An archive of former newsletters would be neat. I would like to catch up on what's been going on.
I was very excited about the prospect of a born again monastic order and my first thoughts were ' is it too good to be true?'
How about an on-line get together? I think fellowshipping with each other would help strengthen the organization. Robert (Kansas)

Answer from The Prayer Foundation ™ : Thank you for your encouragement. As hard as it may be to believe, this site (at the time of this writing 556 pages) actually represents about thirty hours of work per week for about a two and one-half year period. Add another ten hours a week for correspondence and counseling.

We have added the information you requested to our 24-Hr. Prayerchain Chart. Thank you for the advice.

We don't archive the newsletters because their purpose is just to tell what is new on the site---it is mainly for the people who don't visit that often, and that way they get an overview of what new pages are available; they may be more interested in a particular aspect of the site (some people only visit monthly; others visit weekly, or every few days; many, like yourself, visit daily).

The regular news concerning what's happening with this ministry is actually placed on the site itself on our page: Prayer Foundation News! That page is updated only when something new happens, and so changes occur gradually over time. We don't archive it because once something has happened, it should be recorded somewhere else on the site, anyway.

A born-again Monastic Order was something we had hoped to find for years, but never could. Gradually we felt the Lord leading us to found the first 100% born-again Monastic Order in the world. We Incorporated on July 19, 1999, and this web site went online on November 8, 2000.

The idea of having a weekly "chat-room" for a couple of hours each week keeps coming up, and we think it's a great idea. Time constraints have not allowed us to fully look into it yet, but we would like to do so in the future. Monk Preston and Monk Linda have gone into "Chat Rooms" on ***** to witness Christ to Moslems in countries where even the practice of Christianity, let alone Evangelism, is against the law. The price for becoming a Christian in several Moslem countries is death. (see our page: Worldwide Persecution of Christians).

7/12/03___________________________________________

I am a new priest.
I am the vicar at a small Episcopal Church in Texas. It is an older congregation. They are a small church and cannot afford a full-time Rector, so I am also a Chaplain in juvenile justice in Texas.

Thank you for caring. I enjoyed your site. God is good and I felt a peace when I asked for your prayers. My church people are wonderful but they have been ignored for so long. So I have an older Episcopalian congregation to minister to, and teenagers locked up in facilities for crimes against people, also to minister to.

Thanx, and Peace be unto you.
If we do not practice what we preach, we are teaching something else.
Bill P. + (Texas)

6/30/03___________________________________________

Hello fellow Monks!

I love the "new look" of your website, with the Celtic knot designs. I especially like the Gregorian Chant selections.

Brother Richard-Deacon

Templars Church R.O.K.T.

6/6/03___________________________________________

Over the years, the poem "Footprints" has and continues to pop up under the name "Anonymous", many, many times and always incorrectly.

Just thought I would let you know that the authentic "Footprints In The Sand" writing, while many suggest is anonymous, actually was written by Margaret Fishback Powers. She and her husband were moving to western Canada, when her manuscripts were lost, including the original manuscript to this poem. Someone found it and the writing began popping up. She eventually went to court and was awarded the copyright to the writing.

I know this because we are friends of the Powers and Margaret was a member of the church I pastored in Tillsonburg, Ontario.

Also she has documented the account of this in her book entitled "Footprints - The True Story Behind The Poem That Inspired Millions", written in 1993 and published by Harper Collins. You can purchase a copy of it at your local Christian bookstore for $9.95.

Warmly,

Eric

Rev. Eric McGrath (Canada) "Pulpit Supply" Web Site
"1 cross + 3 nails = 4 given"

Note from The Prayer Foundation ™ : See on our page "Footprints".

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