Men Are Enlisting in God's Prayer Army!

                On Saturday, June 27, 2015, national prayer catalyst Dick Simmons came to Topeka to conduct an all-day men’s prayer boot camp.  At least, that was his intention.  The Lord had other plans.
       Minutes before the event was to begin, Dick began to show symptoms of a moderate-to-severe stroke.  Men started to pray immediately and continued in prayer until paramedics arrived and wheeled him away.
       What to do now?  There were 40 men in attendance, each anticipating hearing from the boot camp leader.  Organizers decided to carry on, and two men had to step up to fill the shoes of one.
       Providentially, Wayne Garland has spent countless hours in prayer with Dick Simmons in Washington, DC, and in their travels.  He was able to share the heart of the boot camp message and testify to the personal transformation that comes when men give themselves to unified, fervent prayer.
       David Epps is a local leader who (providentially) spent most of the last 24 hours going through the boot camp slides with Dick in preparation for the next day.
       Leading as a team, these men went through the boot camp material with some significant success-- worshiping, praying, hearing testimonies, reviewing great awakenings of the past and encouraging present-day repentance and prayer.
       The event culminated that afternoon with a time of commitment and commissioning.
       As for Dick, he went through a battery of tests, but was released in a couple of days with only the slightest residual effects from his stroke.  This process of passing the baton was not what he had envisioned, however men are being raised up to carry Dick's message.
       Dick takes the passage in 1 Timothy 2 very seriously as men are called to pray first of all for rulers and all those in authority.  It is his belief that a million men praying early every morning will bring the nation back from the precipice of God’s judgment which we now face. 

       He calls this the National Prayer Offensive.
       The morning after the prayer boot camp, men began gathering in Topeka at 5 am to intercede for the community, state, and nation.  The early-morning gathering continued for 21 days at which time the men were encouraged to continue on in personal and team prayer.
       Dick Simmons has served as a Presbyterian minister in the inner city of New York, and helped David Wilkerson (author of The Cross and the Switchblade) start the Teen Challenge ministry.  He is a personal friend of Gov. Sam Brownback and been an intercessor in Washington, DC, for many years. 

       The boot camp was held at First Assembly of God.  Go to men4kansas.com for more information on follow-up to the boot camp.  Visit them on Facebook at facebook.com/men4kansas.