Updated Prayer Requests, Announcements & Updated FCPO-Denver Meeting Schedule

UPDATED 04/06/2011: I've started the newest list below...let's be on our knees before our gracious and loving Lord. More to come (check back frequently).

** Please pray for wounded Colorado officer Scott Warrington. I just received some very disturbing news and don't have enough details to share but this brother needs prayer and is not/has not been well-supported by his agency (again, lack of servant-leadership by those in authority).

** Pray for a brother in NM who is applying for a sergeant position with my old unit (SID) -- God's will and for His glory.

** Pray for Travis Yates, Lt. Col. Grossman and I as we share with 500+ officers tomorrow in Tulsa.

** Praise Report (!!) and Prayer Request: Colorado State Trooper Scott Hinshaw, who was nearly killed three years ago, is going back to the road!! Total miracle and an awesome story that I hope he will share with us in the near future. Scott has to do two weeks of FTO and then he'll official be "back." Glory to God (and "Thank You Jesus"). More later.

Paul Lee sent the following update ref. Chattanooga shooting/police funeral: As you all know when a tragedy like this occurs cops go through several phases; shock & disbelief, remorse, anger, and then the deep remorse and agony of the fact we lost one. Right now in our area we are in the anger stage. They are angry at the bad guy, angry at the bad guys parents, angry at the news, and just plain old angry at life because they can’t fix this. Pray for Christian Officers to be bold for Christ even as they grieve. FCPO personnel in Chattanooga will be ministering to our brothers there over the next few days.

** Warriors -- we need you to be in prayer. Chattanooga (TN) Officer Tim Chapin was shot and killed and Ofc. Lorin Johnston was wounded in a shootout. Bad guy was wearing body armor and only one with a long gun was a sergeant that had to be called to the scene. Bad guy captured alive but Ofc. Chapin was shot in the face and killed. Ofc. Johnston -- who gave a kidney to another officer who needed one, sustained possible injury to his one remaining kidney. PLEASE join us in praying for Tim's family, for Lorin, and the CPD in general. See http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2011/apr/02/chattanooga-police-officer-shot-killed/. I will be in Chattanooga in a couple of weeks as that is HQ for the Fellowship of Christian Peace Officers USA on whose board I serve as VP. FCPO Pres. Paul Lee called me this AM...our prayer should be that God will use FCPO and believers there to turn what Satan intends for his glory to God's instead (sharing the truth of the Gospel with our brethren). Tim knew Christ as Savior -- praise God!

** An Illinois officer requests prayer that God will use him mightily as he lives the Gospel and shares it with his colleagues and chief of police (that our own will turn from their sin and accept Christ as Savior and Lord).

** Pray for CSP Trooper Gene Lawyer ref. his upcoming court date on April 28th (justice, mercy, truth).

** Please be in prayer for a retired officer (Louie) who is actively resisting any accountability from other Christian officers who love and care for him and is now back to doing things "Louie's way" (rebellion/sin).

** Pray for an officer recovering from back surgery.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS (see previous posts for more):

Chief Jake Shirk and the Monument (CO) PD is sponsoring a free church security seminar this Saturday, April 9th from 8:30-4:30 PM at Tri-Lakes United Methodist Church in Monument. Lunch will be provided. For more info contact Chief Shirk at 719-381-3253. More announcements and news are posted on our website – check back frequently.

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UPDATED FCPO-DENVER AREA MEETING SCHEDULE: --

-- Thursday, April 7th: NO MEETING as I'll be in Tulsa on the 7th with Travis Yates and Lt. Col. Dave Grossman. I will then be returning the following day to join quite a few of you for our annual Tuesday Night Dialogue retreat in Estes Park on April 8th-10th. The theme for this year's retreat is Obedience (a great in-depth follow-up to my teaching on that subject -- see last week's recap here on the website).

-- Friday, April 15th at Calvary Chapel AURORA (http://www.calvaryaurora.org/) starting at 7:00 PM in Room 144. Investigator James "Jimmy" Wattles (noted outlaw motorcycle gang expert and featured on the History Channel's Gangland series) will be teaching a special message. More details to follow -- stay tuned!

-- Thursday, April 21st, 7:00 PM, Calvary South Denver in Littleton. There is a possibility that Colorado State Trooper Scott Hinshaw will be our very special guest speaker. Scott has come a long way since being critically injured in October of 2007 and his recovery is nothing short of a miracle. Stay tuned for further details!

-- Thursday, April 28th, 7:00 PM at Calvary South Denver in Littleton. This will be our chartering event for FCPO-Denver and Fellowship of Christian Peace Officers National Executive Director Lamar Moore will be our very special guest speaker. Please make a point of joining us for a free (well, for you guys) catered meal and more. Stay tuned for additional details!

Latest Prayer Requests and Meeting Updates

UPDATED EVENT SCHEDULE:

* Thursday, August 5th, 7:00 PM, Calvary South Denver in Littleton (see http://www.calvarycsd.org/ for directions).

* Thursday, August 12th. Same time/place as above. Erv Meyer will be teaching a special profession-relevant message based on Caleb.

* Saturday, August 14th. 1st Annual Centurion LE Ministry BBQ at our place in Highlands Ranch. Come to a meeting for details or shoot me an email for details.

* Thursday, August 19th. NO MEETING

* Thursday, August 26th. Same time/place as detailed above (Calvary South Denver in Littleton).


UPDATED (08/04/2010) PRAYER REQUESTS -- I will be updating this post throughout the week as new requests arrive. See the 7/27 post for additional.

* Pray for our own Matt Wallenburg as he tests for a local agency in the morning.

* Pray for Bob Chacon, son of a Lt. Juan Chacon in NM: that he will hear God's word and calling on his life, turn from his sin, and accept Christ as Lord and Savior.

* A local PD sergeant (Candace, LTPD) writes,
Please keep retired Colorado Springs PD & El Paso County S.O Homicide Detective Lou Smit in your prays as he battles terminal cancer. Lou is the best detective I have been blessed to have known in my 30 plus year career. Lou often had his victim's picture in his wallet, while trying to find justice for them. Lou is one of the nicest people I have ever met and I pray that God will be with Lou and his family .

* Pray for my sergeant ("Rob") who is recovering from surgery to correct a duty-related injury.

* From a colleague with GJPD: Pray for the son of a Pueblo police officer who is in critical condition after a crash in SW Colorado. The officer is Cody Purvis and his injured son's name is Nick.

* Pray for Ofc. Tony Rodriguez in Wyoming as he forms a FCPO chapter there.

* Pray for the family and colleagues of an officer (Ron) who took his own life in the wake of a family tragedy (now compounded).

* From U.S. Deputy Marshal Rob Moore:
(1) For a Deputy US Marshal brother in Dallas who's wife has recently been diagnosed with extensive cancer. Apparently it started out as breast cancer, but by the time it got found it has become wide spread. They would appreciate our prayers and yes, they are believers.
(2) In Denver, a Marshal's wife has been declared in need of immediate spinal disk fusion or disk replacement. Apparently this is a result of an accumulation of many things, but the diagnosis has put them into shock. Once again, they are both believers. They too would appreciate our prayers.
(3) Another Marshal in Denver has a mother (Marianne, another believer!) who has been afflicted with severe gout, due to loosing a kidney awhile back to cancer. Her gout is in addition to already debilitating arthritis, so the pain is constant and the bones of the hands and feet are deforming. Prayer for pain control is appreciated.

* Pray for a local officer ("Jason") who is suffering from debilitating headaches (the "rushed to the hospital" kind).

* No new news on Dep. Chris Dewey. Check back frequently and feel free to check his Caring Bridge website for the latest: www.caringbridge.org/visit/chrisdewey. Emily and Chris both need our ongoing prayers.

* This past Sunday, Colorado Bureau of Investigation SAC Frank Vanecek and I visited the four wounded officers who are currently being treated at Craig Hospital in Englewood. Please keep them in prayer (and keep Frank's daughter and family in prayer as well). They wounded officers are:
(1) Carbon County (WY) S.O. Lt. Kyle Rosentreter. Kyle was critically injured when his unit was hit head-on by a PU that lost control and swerved into Kyle's lane while Kyle was responding to an emergency on July 4th.
(2) Mineral County (CO) S.O. Dep. Scott Warrington. Scott sustained a severe head injury when he was thrown from a horse he was mounting at a 4th of July parade (on-duty).
(3) Polk County (WI) S.O. Dep. Mike Severson was shot in the line of duty some years ago and is back at Craig due to complications from those wounds.
(4) Brownstown (MI) PD Ofc. Max Faistenhammer was severely injured in a motorcycle crash.

* Pray for Jordan -- salvation, healing and grace to overcome Asperger's syndrome, and more...(God knows the needs).

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