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4/12/07_____________________________________

I am really enjoying your web site and am seriously considering registering as a lay monk. There is so much information that seems to be included in the guidelines in the online handbook. It would be great to have a PDF or something consolidated so that it would be handy to print and use while away from the computer for the daily offices and scriptures readings.

I am really inspired by all that you have included in your web site. Thank you so much.

Blessings to you,

Laura K. (California)

4/9/07______________________________________

I hope to God Bob Marley died a Christian, cause I ain't goin' to war unless I know that when I get killed I have someone to sing with when I get up there. Anything I can pray about 4 y’all? Very Respectfully, Matt Cadet 4th Class Matthew K. United States Air Force

4/8/07______________________________________

Greetings and a Blessed Easter to you all!
I'd signed up as a Prayer Warrior a while back...
As soon as I finish some paper work for school and the IRS (sigh) I
want to contribute both to the Prayer Warrior and Lay Monk ministries. The idea of monks really appeals to me and is a powerful balance to the increasing secularization and insanity I see growing in this world. Also as an ethnic Celt, I truly love how you incorporate Celtic Christianity into your ministry and how grounded in Scripture and the Faith y'all are.
What a blessing your site is to me!
In His Peace,
Alexis M. (Pelham, Tennesee)

3/31/07_________________________________

(Re: your website) Absolutely beautiful and jam packed with information. (Arizona)

3/29/07_________________________________

I have long sought an organization of monastic sensibilities that embraced non-Roman Catholics and women.

As a 45 year-old married woman, I have long felt God's call in a contemplative life of prayer and service. I however have not felt led to be Catholic or a nun. I have felt blessed to be a wife and mother and have felt one of my greatest callings is to raise a Christian loving son. "To be an example and light unto the world".

I have never been comfortable teaching the word. I am more the organizer, support type.

I will pray for your ministry, and it's continued growth. I have signed up as a Prayer Warrior. And have begun the hours of prayer. I am a monk in my heart already and need no recognition from man, but it is nice to know there are kindred hearts out there that know a woman is as equal to the Lord as a man. We are all children of God and are called to praise him. That is our call...To Praise God!!

PTL

Carol B. (California)

3/26/07_________________________________

Greetings Monk Preston and Monk Linda in the name of our precious Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!

It would be easy to say that I stumbled across your website "by accident" while searching for the words to "St. Patrick's Breastplate" last week, but as I am sure you know, there are no "coincidences" in God's will. My wife Ellen, and I have been devouring the information contained in your website, and although we each have our own walk and direction, we are impressed, interested and more than a bit curious about your order.

We are Lutheran, I, having grown up in the Lutheran Church, while Ellen was baptized into the Lutheran Church as an adult the year before we were married almost 30 years ago. I accepted Jesus as my savior at a Baptist church back when I was a junior in High School, and in the early 1980s we became active in the Lutheran Charismatic movement. Our home church, Brooklyn Park Lutheran (BPLC) in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, is at the forefront of Bible-teaching, Bible believing, spirit-filled evangelical Lutheran congregations in Minnesota and America today. We are also part of Coming King Community, a small fellowship led by Irish Christian singer/songwriter Paul Kyle and his wife, Hilary here in the Twin Cities. Paul's song "Simply Jesus" has become a central theme of our lives as we seek to simplify our lives, service and ministry for the Lord (Ellen's family background is Irish-American. Mine is German and Welsh.)

Your Order makes much sense to us and for us at this time in our lives, as we look at a call God has laid upon our hearts to minister to missionaries in need of a place of training, respite and retreat, but I feel that I, in particular, am in need of much more training. I think your "Growing in Christ" Monastic Training Program may be what I need to structure my prayer and service life.

Ellen is a graduate with a two-year Certificate of Lay Ministry and a one year internship at the Lay Ministry Training Center International (LMTC), a college-level Lutheran-based Bible, discipleship and ministry school which was for many years affiliated with North Heights Lutheran Church in Roseville, Minnesota (she was also the LMTC officer manager for seven years, and then was registrar of the Association Free Lutheran Bible School of the Association of Free Lutheran Congregations for four years.) Last year she enrolled in and successfully completed a one year training program in Biblical ministry at the School of Ministry of the Master's Institute Seminary, which is part of the Alliance of Renewed Congregations. Currently, she is deeply involved in a multi-year training and apprenticeship program with John Paul Jackson's Streams Ministries, as well as working a full-time job.

Ellen and I are very excited by our initial impressions of the Prayer Foundation and the Knights of Prayer. We want to do this together, as I am sure that the two of you can understand.

Blessings,

Hans E.

St. Brendan's Spoke Bicycle Travel Club

(Cedar, Minnesota)

3/25/07_________________________________

Thank you...and God bless you for your good work. Claude B. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)

3/20/07_________________________________

I am so glad that I happened onto your site! I am very much interested
in my Irish heritage and in personal evangelism. So here, I find them
combined. You have obviously put a great deal of work into your web
site, it is so full of interesting things. I was "Googleing" for How
the Irish Saved Civilization (having misplaced my copy) and that's how
I found you.

I do have a question. In looking at your book list, I did not see "Hell's Best Kept Secret" or "The Way of The Master" by Ray Comfort. With their strong emphasis on using the natural law to bring conviction of sin, and Spirit-led repentance, I have found them of great help in personal evangelism.
Thank you for your site. I shall spent a lot of time exploring.
Yours and HIS,
Gregg C. (Texarkana, Texas)

3/15/07_________________________________

Survey: How Found: By surfing the internet for lay monastic orders.
Liked Best: There is no one thing that makes your site best, it all is important.
Liked Least: Not applicable.
What could be Improved: Could not think of one thing.
Like to See: Nothing at this time, after all I still have about 750 pages to read through (smile).
Born-again? Yes.
Visit Site: Daily.
Comments: An answer to a lifetime of prayer.
Don't stop, ever. Please by the grace of God, Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit stay true to your, our calling. (New York State)

3/13/07_________________________________

Dear Monks,
I was happy to see the article on MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship) seeking educators for the children of their missionaries. I have been teaching in Japan at a school for missionaries' children (MKs) for 26 years. We currently have students from 24 countries. Our student population is over half MKs, and the others are mainly from Christian expatriate business
families who desire a Christian education for their children.

I can say that teaching in an MK school is extremely rewarding. For
one thing, I know that many of the parents would not be here if we
weren't, so we are helping get the Gospel out. For another, MKs tend
to grow up to be influential for the Kingdom of God and many either
come back to their adopted mission country or go out to other countries
as missionaries. Teaching at an MK school is sowing seeds for future
generations to spread the word of God.

Our motto is "Impact the world for Christ." Just today we got a letter
from one of our students who made it into the International Honor Band
and is spending a week with non-Christian students from all over the
world. She wrote, "...we hope we are being a witness even being with
them, and hope to continue to show our faith to others at the
festival." I am thrilled many times each year by seeing my students
reach out to others. Even the little ones have a missionary mindset
and pray and reach out to our Japanese neighbors.

Of course, all of them are not angels! But as an educator I can get
them started and help them stay on the right path. I hope that the
article on this website will help other educators consider the
possibility of teaching MKs somewhere in the world and helping them to "impact the world for Christ".
Monk Denise, Christian Academy in Japan

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