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  John Whitsett January 30, 2012 17:42

  Dear Cheryl,
  
  I am a Doctor of Ministry student at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky as well as Lead Pastor at the Lakeside Community Church of the Nazarene in Hastings, Nebraska.
  
  My purpose for contacting you is to perhaps secure your assistance in the research for my dissertation in the arena of corporate prayer.
  
  My study centers around identifying churches that are effective at mobilizing their laity in the arena of corporate prayer.  I hope to conduct interviews with either the pastor or the prayer coordinator of these churches.  From these interviews, I am seeking to identify threads of commonality in terms of beliefs and values that run through these churches and set them apart.  I hope the findings will prove helpful in discovering some essential factors that contribute to the successful implementation of corporate prayer in the local church context.
  
  Would you be so kind as to pass along to me names of congregations and contact information of pastors and/or their prayer coordinators that I could contact to see if they’d be willing to consent to an interview and assist with my research?  Please know I will treat them with the utmost respect and protect their privacy.  No church or individual will be identified other than by a number I assign them for the purpose of data collection and analysis.
  
  I am hoping to gain a sampling of churches that represent a number of denominational affiliations, sizes, and are located in various regions of the country.  Your assistance will be incredibly helpful.  Also—if you know of other individuals I could contact who might be able to provide additional recommendations, please pass their names along.
  
  If you could get back to me by e-mail at your earliest convenience at johnwhitsett58@gmail.com, I would appreciate it.  Or you can reply to my Comment Wall here on the Pray! Network if you'd like.
  
  Thank you so much,
  John Whitsett