One of the best ways to jump start people into a deeper level of prayer is to encourage them through a conference. Many of you attend our regional or national conferences, some churches spending thousands of dollars to do so. While we want to continue challenging you to come to our events, have you ever thought of bringing an event to your area? Most of our regional conferences are planned due to an invitation from the hosting church, not us seeking a location.

What Does it Take?

There are three possible conferences you can host.

1. An individual speaker conference.
The CPLN and our parent ministry Harvest Prayer Ministries have 13 different speakers who can facilitate a prayer conference. These conferences are put on and expenses covered by your church. In a sense you are paying to bring in a speaker for a prayer weekend. Expenses may vary, based on travel and housing expenses and agreed upon honorarium. Each speaker has slightly different requirements. You can pick a speaker either by topic or closeness to you. The speakers are listed below, with their location and whether or not they travel nationally or regionally. Click on their names and an email window will pop up.

CPLN
Jonathan Graf, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , Indiana, National
Phil Miglioratti, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , Chicago, National
John and Kerry Shuey, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , Eastern Pennsylvania, National/International
Dennis and Betty Jo Conner, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , Dallas, TX, National
Ginny Kisling, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , San Jose, CA, Regional

Harvest Prayer Minsitries Teachers
David and Kim Butts, Indiana, National
Alvin VanderGriend, Washington, National
This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Wisconsin, Regional
This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , Pennsylvania, National

2. A CPLN Regional Conference
A church asks to host a regional event that will be advertised by the CPLN nationally. The CPLN brings in at least two speakers to provide keynotes and workshops. The church provides a worship team, a local logistics planning committee, volunteers, and its facilities free of charge (no room rental, hourly pay for technicians, etc.). The church also focuses on inviting other local churches and does promotion in its city. There are three possible funding plans for this kind of conference:

Plan A. (The most popular) Much like having a speaker come in, the host church pays CPLN $2,000. This is due several months ahead of the conference. They pay no other expenses to the CPLN. CPLN pays its own travel and hotel expenses, and covers speaker honorariums. The CPLN makes the rest of what it needs to put on the conference through registration fees. Here's the great benefit for the host church: because it paid $2,000, the host church's members can come to the conference just for the cost of lunch on Saturday (the church either picks up that cost for them or charges its people). The $2,000 is in essence scholarshipping its people.

Plan B. The host church provides its facilities free and its people pay a significantly reduced registration fee (Usually 35-40% off or $28-$25). The church guarantees that we will recieve at least $2500 in registration income from those who attend the church. (Roughly 100 people register.) If less than that comes in, the church pays us the difference up to $2500.

Plan C. The host church provides it facilities free, but it finds three to six other churches to co-sponsor the event. Each co-sponsoring church puts up $500 (if the host church finds at least four churches to co-sponser, it does not need to pay the $500). People from each of the sponsoring churches--including the host church--then come at a reduced rate (usually 35-40% off or $28-$25). 

With CPLN Regionals, we need a church that can handle at least 300 people in its sanctuary, and has enough rooms to have 4-6 workshops.

If you are at all interested in the possibility of hosting any of these conferences, please contact either the individual speaker or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .