Friday Night Tip Sheet From Boulder 07/31/09

EVENT CALLED DUE TO RAIN
With just one hour to go in the Friday night program at the Promise Keepers conference in Boulder, a storm cell forced the early closure. Paul Wilbur and the PK Band played an up tempo tune to carry the church-folk home. The program begins 30 minutes early on Saturday, now at 8:30 a.m.

20th SEASON OPENS BACK IN BOULDER
Promise Keepers’ 20th season of ministry, “A Time to Honor,” opened with blue skies and late afternoon sun over Boulder, Colorado, where Promise Keepers was founded in 1990. Paul Wilbur, Morris Chapman, Todd Warren and the PK Band launched into praise music, and the stage area was quickly filled with banners and celebratory dancing by men and women in attendance.

Promise Keepers last met in Boulder in 1994, in Denver in 2005, and in Colorado Springs in 2006.

Promise Keepers founder and chairman Coach Bill McCartney laid out the agenda for the weekend. “Our mission is to ignite and unite men to be warriors, and we are raising spiritual warriors,” said McCartney. “Coach Mac” outlined the meeting’s four goals: honor women, encourage youth, honor the poor, and honor Messianic Jews as the spiritual fathers of Christianity.

Jonathan Bernis described his own spiritual journey, first as a young Jewish man, then as a Messianic believer in Jesus. At his invitation to faith in Christ, scores of people responded as Rabbi Bernis made the invitation to faith in Christ and psalmist Kathy Shooster played piano and sang.

CeCe Winans’ powerfully serene voice added to the worshipful setting.

After a painful narrative on divorce, pornography, and single parenthood, a video narrator vowed, “Never again shall we as men abdicate our responsibility to be providers and protectors of our families.”

Aglow International’s Jane Hansen Hoyt, the first woman to keynote pled for the male and female unity in the Christian faith. “Time Magazine calls the Islamic burka a ‘body bag for the living.’ I pray the church will not put women in body bags in this country,” said Hoyt. “It’s time for the church to step forward and be the mighty warriors, male and female, that God wants us to be. I believe this is the time for hope to come alive.”

LIVE FROM BOULDER
“A Time to Honor” was carried live internationally on the Daystar television network, and locally on KPOF – AM 91. Hundreds of viewers around the U.S. and Canada, as well as Asia and Latin America are participating in the conference. (Sign up at www.promisekeepers.org.)

DID YOU SEE THE BRIDE AND GROOM?
Decked in tailcoat and bridal gown, newlyweds Jeff and Shantele Schudel of Denver were the talk of the opening night. They married earlier in the day on the C.U. campus. “When Promise Keepers invited women this year, we knew we wanted to seal our covenant here,” said Mr. Schudel.

NATIONAL DAY OF REPENTANCE
Early on Friday, more than 100 people gathered to confess and pray specifically for issues relating to conditions in Native America, Messianic Judaism and Anti-Semitism, gender and marriage issues, economic injustice and the failures of leaders. (www.nationaldayofrepentance.org)

SATURDAY HIGHLIGHTS (times subject to change)
9:00 a.m. – Noon, Youth Breakout session: “CALLED OUT ’09,” Coors Events Center, Univ. of Colo. – Boulder (www.calledout09.com)

8:30 a.m. - WORSHIP – PK BAND with PAUL WILBUR
9:30 a.m. - Opening prayer by RABBI MICHAEL WALKER, Church in the City, Denver
9:40 a.m. - KEYNOTE: “Adopt A Neighborhood” – PASTOR TOMMY BARNETT
11:00 a.m. - KEYNOTE: “Adopt A School” – DR. TONY EVANS
2:00 p.m. - WORSHIP CONCERT – JOEL CHERNOFF
2:10 p.m. - “History of the Messianic Movement” – DAVID CHERNOFF
2:30 p.m., Dance team UNIT E
2:40 p.m. - WORSHIP CONCERT – MARTY GOETZ
2:50 p.m. - KEYNOTE: “The Glory of the Church, The Glory of the Messianic Movement” – DAN JUSTER
3:40 p.m. - KEYNOTE: “Do You Know Who They Are?” – BILL McCARTNEY

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