The Centurion Law Enforcement Ministry: Late-Breaking Prayer Requests and Announcements

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Late-Breaking Prayer Requests and Announcements

PRAYER REQUESTS Updated 11/30/2011

** Pray for long-time Texas peace officer David Criner as he seeks the elected office of Constable in Midland. Our profession is desperate for godly (Christian) servant-leaders.

** Ryan Pearson, son of Englewood (CO) PD Ofc. Jason Pearson, suffers from some pretty serious asthma issues (he was in the hospital over the weekend) and is in need of prayer.

** Please pray for a colleague in NM who is applying for an investigator position with the state (God's will and favor).

** From fellow FCPO National Board members Paul Lee and a Chuck Urgo: We received a call this morning from Fort Worth K-9 Officer Royce Hearne requesting prayer for his teenage daughter Casey. Casey has had many surgeries since childhood and may have cancerous tumors in her leg now. She will be having a full body MRI on Tuesday. She has always wanted to be a missionary to India. Royce and his wife have an older daughter, Eairn. Keep the whole family in your prayers. Royce is a former member of the FCPO national board.

Let's lift Casey in prayer!

** As many of you know, Angie Hays, wife of retired Denver PD Officer and current pastor and DPD Chaplain Manny Hays has been awaiting a life-saving liver transplant. News had been bad but we serve a great God! Yesterday a compatible liver became available and the surgery took place within hours. Angie is in recovery and doing well. Still long way to go and she is obviously in pain. Please keep our sister-in-Christ in prayer, pray for Manny (3 hours sleep), and for the family of the donor.

** Thanks for all who prayed for me ref. my teaching ("preachin") at last night's service at Calvary South Denver (message should be available for free download at www.calvarycsd.org).

** Be praying for all warriors -- foreign and domestic (military and law enforcement) -- who will be working this Thanksgiving! Then thank God for His blessings on this nation.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

** The Newsletter goes out in a day or two. That said, our own Jim Wattles will be teaching at this Thursday's "cop church" meeting at Calvary South Denver in Littleton staring at 1900 hours. In addition, Matt Wallenburg is home from his military training and will be joining us to lead worship!! Please join us (bring your spouse and invite a colleague)!

** From Commerce City Police Chief Phil Baca: I’m sorry to inform you that I need your help! You knew the law would finally catch up with me eventually and I'm going behind bars for "good". I
have been named as one of Commerce City's Most Wanted and I am scheduled to be locked up on December 1st at South Adams County Fire Department to help send 2 local children to summer camp in Empire, CO next June. My goal is to raise $1600. Go to www2.mda.org/site/TR/Lock-Up/55-E4-657-DenverDistrict?px=1028971&pg=personal&fr_id=1790 to donate to my bail and help provide “the best week of the year” for a local child living with Muscular Dystrophy. Your donation is tax-deductible and will help guarantee me an early release! Thanks in advance for your help. Don't hesitate to call or email me with any questions.
Together we'll make a difference.
Phil Baca, Chief, CCPD

** From Mike Carter:
Dear Friends and Family,

I would like to invite you as guests to attend my graduation ceremony at Arapahoe Community College at 6 PM on Friday, Dec. 9th. I realize many of you cannot attend due to time constraints or distance. If you cannot attend, of course, I understand. This is more of an announcement to you “out-of-town’ers” rather than an invite. If you are able to, and plan to attend, please R.S.V.P. to me (ASAP at raidermike2005@comcast.net) so I can give a head count to our academy coordinator so they can adequately prepare for the reception to follow.

I have had a great time and did very well during the 17 week academy program. I am in the running for the “Big Wheel” award given to the academy student who scored highest in the driving portion of the training.

I hope to see you there! Don’t forget to r.s.v.p. for this event. If you are not sure if you can make it or not until the last minute and didn’t get a chance to r.s.v.p for this occasion, please feel free to show up anyway. I’m sure they’ll account for a few more than had r.s.v.p’d. They always do!

Sincere regards,
Mike Carter

Our Core Verses

COPS -- God's ministers for good and a terror against evil. We do not bear the sword in vain.

(Paraphrase...for full text, see the Bible in Romans 13:1-4)

Psalm 82:3-4

Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Rescue the weak and needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

Isaiah 1:17

Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.ressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.he widow.

Colorado Law Enforcement Ministry Meeting Schedules

The Centurion Law Enforcement Ministry (FCPO-Denver)

On the local front (meaning Colorado Front Range) we typically meet for iron sharpens iron fellowship and Bible study every 2nd and 4th Tuesday evening of each month at Calvary Castle Rock. Email me for details at thecenturionministry@gmail.com or give me a shout at 720-371-1022

Men of Courage Law Enforcement Ministry

Buena Vista (CO) PD Sgt. Dean Morgan is leading a law enforcement fellowship/Bible study in Chaffee County and the surrounding area. Contact Dean at interceptor@policeone.com for more info.

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TCLEM Mission Statement

The mission of The Centurion Law Enforcement Ministry (TCLEM), is to educate law enforcement officers (police, deputies, troopers, investigators, parole/probation, corrections, military, etc.) about God's unique call on their lives as outlined in God's word (Bible) and to lead officers and their families to a saving knowledge of and close personal relationship with our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ. Through same, we also seek to positively impact our profession by raising up Christian servant-leaders and reduce our historically high rates of divorce, alcoholism, depression, suicide and related issues.

Law enforcement is a God-ordained ministry of service and protection for our society as outlined in the Bible in Romans 13. Inasmuch as our very authority as peace officers is given to us by God, TCLEM seeks to affirm our calling as servant-warriors ("sheepdogs") and leaders while at the same time developing the our spiritual, family and personal lives through Bible study, peer fellowship, and group accountability along with active involvement in a solid Christ-centered/Bible-based church. We also seek to infuse our profession with godly leaders who will in fact LEAD (serve) from a biblical world view.

What We Believe (Statement of Faith)

(1) WE BELIEVE the only true basis of Christian fellowship is Christ's sacrificial agape love, which is greater than any secondary differences we possess, and without which we have no right to claim ourselves Christians.

(2) WE BELIEVE in all the fundamental doctrines of orthodox evangelical Christianity as detailed in God's word (Bible).

(3) WE BELIEVE the sixty-six books of the Bible (i.e. Old and New Testament) comprise the totality of Holy Scripture and is inerrant in the original text, and remains God-breathed/God-inspired and infallible in all its substance, and therefore, it is the supreme and final authority in faith, theology, and life. 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21; Psalm 119:11, 89, 105.

(4) WE BELIEVE that our Lord has called us to share the Word of God in such a way that its message can be applied to an individual's life and, in particular as it relates to our service in the God-ordained calling of law enforcement. We also believe that it is the responsibility and privilege of every Christian to proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ and to seek to make growing disciples. Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 1:8.

(5) WE BELIEVE there is only One true, eternally existent God. He exists in three co-equal persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The triune God is the Creator and Sustainer of all things, and is worthy of worship and obedience. Deut. 6:4-5; Genesis 1:31, Luke 3:21-22; Matthew 28:18-20, Rev. 4:11.

(6) WE BELIEVE in one God who is Creator of heaven and earth, Spirit, personal, transcendent, sovereign, life, love, truth, almighty, simple (i.e. one without parts), timelessly eternal, unchangeable, wise, just, holy, relational, dynamic and infallible in all things.

(7) WE BELIEVE that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully human, possessing two distinct natures which are co-joined in one person, that He was miraculously conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, lived a sinless and miraculous life, provided for the atonement of our sins by His vicarious substitutionary death on the Cross, was bodily resurrected by the power of the Holy Spirit, physically ascended back to the right hand of God the Father in heaven, and lives to make intercession for us. After Jesus ascended to Heaven, He poured out His Holy Spirit on the believers in Jerusalem, enabling them to fulfill His command to preach the gospel to the entire world, an obligation shared by all believers today. John 1:1-3,14; Matthew 1:18-25; Philippians 2:5-9; Colossians 1:15; 1 Corinthians 15:1-8; Acts 1:11.

(8) WE BELIEVE that all people are by nature separated from God and responsible for their own sin, but that salvation, redemption, and forgiveness are freely offered as a gift by the Lord Jesus Christ to all based on His grace alone. When a person sincerely repents of their sin and enters into a life-saving/life-changing personal relationsship (not "religion") with Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, they are immediately born again and sealed by the Holy Spirit, all their sins are forgiven, and they become a child of God -- changed, and destined to spend eternity with Him. John 3:16; Ephesians 2:8-10; 2 Corinthians 5:21.

(9) WE BELIEVE in all the gifts of the Holy Spirit mentioned in the Scriptures, and that they are valid for today, and should be exercised within scriptural guidelines, seeking to exercise them in love that the whole Body of Christ might be edified. John 14:16-19; 16:7-15; 1 Corinthians 6:19-20; Romans 8:9,11; Titus 3:5.

(10) WE BELIEVE in the pre-tribulation rapture of the church, and we believe that the physical second coming of Christ with His saints to rule on the earth will be personal, premillennial, and visible. This motivates us to holy living, heart-felt worship, committed service, diligent study of God's Word, regular fellowship, and participation in the two ordinances the Lord gave the church - adult baptism by immersion and Holy Communion. Revelation 3:10, Thessalonians 5:9.

(11) WE BELIEVE there is a real personal devil of great evil, cunning, and power, who seeks to tempt, kill, steal, and destroy, yet his power is limited by God to only what God permits him to do; that the devil has been defeated positionally at the cross of Christ, and will be defeated practically at Christ's glorious second coming which will ultimately eventuate in the quarantine and punishment of the Satan (aka the Devil, Beast, and False Prophet, etc.) in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone where they will be tormented day and night forever (what has been traditionally called "Hell"). Luke 10:18; Matthew 4:10; John 12:31; 14:30; 16:11, etc.

(12) WE BELIEVE that our Lord is clear that there is ONLY ONE WAY to Christ and that is through a life-changing personal relationship with the Risen Savior. Jesus told his disciples, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me" (John 14:6). He did not merely point the way to God. He himself claimed to be the only way to the Father and the source of eternal truth and life. The way to God is through personal faith in Jesus Christ. Intellectual acceptance of Christ is not enough. You must come to him determined to turn from what displeases him, with a total trust in Christ's saving power for you.

Are you ready to receive Christ today? If so, scroll up towards the top of this page to the links under How Can I be Saved (AKA True "Officer Safety"). Please feel free to contact me if you need help in this area -- it would be my honour to lead you "home" to Christ!

If you sincerely put your faith in Christ, God promises not only to forgive you, but also to receive you into his family. It's the greatest discovery you will ever make!

Donate to the Centurion Law Enforcement Ministry

We do accept donations to support our ministry and outreach, including but not limited to leading officers to Christ, support for wounded officers; "officer down" outreach; chaplain and counseling services; speaking engagements; website expenses; ministry apparel, etc. Donations can be made out to The Centurion Law Enforcement Ministry and mailed to

P.O. Box 630854
Littleton, CO 80163

That said, support your church first...and then donate if the Holy Spirit inspires you to do so. Thanks in advance for your support.