Prayer
To Pray for this Week
This week our prayer focus is for Andrea Parker:
Andrea Nicole Parker was born in Monterey County, California. She is an American actress and former balletdancer. Andrea began ballet training at age 6, and at age 15 she joined a professional dance company. She quit her career in ballet after three years of touring, switched to contemporary dance, and trained to become an actress while working as a bartender. Her first documented film role was at age 19 in the movie Rented Lips in which she played a dancer/nurse.
Andrea got her break in television playing a nurse on the award-winning Seinfeld episode "The Contest" in 1992. After that first speaking role, she had several other guest-starring roles in television series and movies, most notably a recurring role in ER as Linda Farrell, the love interest of Dr. Doug Ross, and as Caitlin Pike in JAG. She was a body double for Julia Roberts in the movie Pretty Woman; hers are the legs seen in the opening scene of the main character zipping up her boots. She also did several pilots before she gained a cult-following for her role as Miss Parker on the NBC television series The Pretender.
Andrea says she felt compelled to play the role of the complex, cynical, powerful and intimidating yet somewhat tortured Ice Queen because her name was "all over the script." Miss Parker is a character many viewers love and others love to hate. Andrea also played the minor role of Catherine Parker, Miss Parker's mother in The Pretender, a role that is in stark contrast to the character Miss Parker.
After The Pretender was cancelled by NBC in 2000, Andrea did another guest spot on JAG before signing on to reprise her role as Miss Parker in the telemovies for The Pretender, which aired on TNT in 2001. She then returned to series television in 2002 and starred in the ABC network comedy Less Than Perfect, playing Lydia Weston until it was cancelled in 2006. She has made several guest appearances on television talk shows and celebrity events such as the various celebrity poker tournaments.
While promoting "The Pretender" in Monte Carlos' TV festival with her co-star Michael T. Weiss in Feb, 2001, she said in two different interviews that she had been living with a man named Jim for 11 years. She later married him and he died of cancer almost two years after that interview.
Andrea is trained as a stunt-driver and can handle firearms. She also likes to ride horses, spend time with family and friends and drive hot wheels. She even attended the Motion Picture Stunt Driving Course in San Bernardino, California.
Andrea is noted for her support of various charities such as the National Hospice Palliative Care Organization, Glenn Siegel's My Good Friend charity organization, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's research and Project Angel Food. In February 2006, Andrea attended a benefit with former Pretender co-stars Michael T. Weiss and James Denton for Cure Autism Now.
Please pray that this week the Lord will draw Andrea to His Son, so that we can spend all of eternity with her!
March 2010
We are excited to include young people in our prayers for Hollywood! Join us in praying for the kids and the adults who influence kids in film, television and music. New for 2010 we have 2 calendars. One for kids and one for Teens! Just print out whichever calendar pertains to you and pass it on to your families, church leaders and Bible study leaders and pray for the young people in the entertainment industry. Also, email us with any other people you'd like to see added to future month's calendars at info@hpnemail.org
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Prayer
We invite you to join us in praying for Hollywood!
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God sent His Son into the world, not to condemn Hollywood, but that Hollywood might be saved through Him.” John 3:16 CRV
More Ways To Pray
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February 2010
Dear HPN Pray-ers,
Happy belated Valentines Day! We send you our love and appreciation from HPN. Well, it’s a big month with the Vancouver Winter Olympics and the Academy Awards, we have a lot to pray about this month. So, let’s do it…
SUMMARY:
- We thank the Lord for our awesome LAFSC interns
- Thanks for praying for our friends with cancer
- Keep praying for the 168 Hour Film Festival
- Pray for the nominees for the 2010 Academy Awards
- Would you pray for one person in the media
- Pray for Christians living an alternative life style
- Pray for Denzel Washington and “The Book of Eli"
- Pray for wisdom for the staff of Act One
- Pray for the cast and crew of “
Alice In Wonderland ” - Pray for industry professionals who are out of work
- Become an HPN Local Chapter Director
- Join our HPN “I to I” Prayer Partnerships
- HPN's Airdrie, Canada Local Chapter presented HPN to their church
- Check out all of our upcoming events
January 2010 Newsletter
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO HPN PRAYER-ERS!
We are so glad to be back after a joyful Christmas season. Our whole staff went in different directions to see family and we came back full of thanks for all we have, and excitement for what God has in store for this New Year. Because I saw lots of movies over the holidays, I have a new passion to start the New Year in prayer for the cultural influencers of the world and the entertainment they create! And January is Awards month, so let's pray!
SUMMARY:
- We praise God for all of you who generously gave HPN a donation in 2009
- We praise God for our new HPN TEENS Prayer Calendar
- We need more female industry pros to pray for and male intercessors to pray
- Keep praying for Tiger and Elin Woods. They need to experience God's love
- Pray for the people in Hollywood who battle with FEAR
- Pray for Johnny Depp, who just won "Favorite Movie Actor of the Decade"
- Pray for the family of Roy Disney, Walt Disney's nephew, who died Dec. 17th
- The 67th annual Golden Globe Awards is coming up this Sunday, Jan. 17th
- Pray for the gathering of filmmakers at the 26th annual Sundance Film Festival
- The 52nd annual Grammy Awards show will be on January, 31st
- Please pray for all of the potential nominees for the 2010 Academy Awards
- Pray for the annual 168th Film Festival as they rev up to produce 80 short films
- Will you pray this month for one person in Hollywood every day for 30 days?
- Pray with our Miami Chapter Dir. as they lift up HPN members in Florida
- Pray for all the new Bible studies, classes and prayer groups coming up in LA
December 2009 Newsletter
Dear HPN Pray-er,
MERRY CHRISTMAS! Wow, has this year gone fast! We are looking forward to time away with our families and hope that you have joyful plans as well. This month, let's pray for the families of the Hollywood professionals and ask the Lord to pour down His joy and peace over our industry this season!
SUMMARY:
- Praise God for the encouraging responses to our HPN 2009 Update
- Keep praying for Carl Swenson, who is still courageously battling cancer
- Continue praying for the industry professionals who are still out of work
- Pray for decisions during nominating season for the Academy Awards
- Pray for Morgan Freeman ("Invictus"), his heart and his relationships
- We must pray for Tiger Woods and his wife and children
- Pray for the "celebrities" in our industry who are falling morally
- Pray for Sandra Bullock, who's film, "The Blind Side," is a smash hit
- Pray for the industry professionals who are lonely this Christmas
- Pray for the secular media professionals to meet solid believers
- Pray for the presence of Jesus to be more present in Bollywood
- Check out our upcoming events and ways to give to HPN this season
New Prayer Paradigm - Bible Study Beginning!
For Christian Industry Professionals
What About Prayer is Unique to Christians in Entertainment?
How Does an Industry Professional Tap God’s Resources to Impact Our World?
We Invite You to Explore and Experience With Us
the Biblical Dynamics of Prayer
That Discover and Reveal What God’s Heart is For You!
When: The 2nd & 4th Wednesday of each month.
Where: Hollywood Prayer Network, 1763 N. Gower St. Hollywood 90028
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The Minnesota Chapter
Our Minnesota chapter of the Hollywood Prayer Network (HPN) is 90% communication by email. Whenever anyone hears of anything that has happened to an industry professional – like when John Travolta’s son died a number of months ago – they email me to make sure I know and then I send an email out to the whole group so we can pray about whatever the request is. We also do personal prayer requests for chapter members.
Once every week I send out an email that we call, “TC (Twin Cities) HPN – Target Redemption: Special Edition.” It’s an email that is a bio on an industry professional. It tells the chapter members a little bit about the person and their life, family, accomplishments in the industry and, if possible, something about what they believe or don’t believe spiritually speaking so we know how to pray. Then we spend that week praying specifically for that person to come to know the Lord and we have a little something to converse with Him about them.
Every month we have an actual, physical prayer meeting that all the members (we have about 160 on the email list) are invited to (at present we have around 10-12 who actually come – it sounds like not very many, but it’s actually a very solid group). For this meeting I create what I call a “Share ‘n Prayer” sheet. It includes one Hollywood “missionary” (a Christian who works in Hollywood; one Hollywood “Target Redemption” for the MONTH (as opposed to the weekly one I just mentioned earlier – this is someone who, to our knowledge, still needs a personal relationship with Christ); and one “Minnesota missionary” (an industry professional here in Minnesota). These are people we highlight for the month so chapter members can spend the next month praying for them and, of course, we specifically pray for them at our meeting (which is always held the last Tuesday of the month). We also take prayer requests from those at the meeting and disseminate them to the entire chapter via email after the fact.
For the last two years we have also participated in a Christian Community Fair here in the cities. The Christian Community Fair is like a big trade show of Christian ministries in the Twin Cities (and also includes Christian businesses). We purchase booth space and then attendees walk around and are introduced to ministries they otherwise may not have heard of. We’ve gained many prayer warriors from this fair who had no idea there was such a thing as a group that advocates praying for Hollywood . It’s where a bulk of the 160 have come from. A lady came to the booth last year and said to me, “I signed up with you last year. I see every one of your emails and I stop and pray for each person when you send them.” What a blessing! I don’t know off the top of my head who all is out there, but the power of prayer from those who DO pray – it’s exciting to think about!
We also have just started having quarterly movie nights. This is a time when the chapter can come together and get better acquainted and just enjoy a fun time together munching and watching a good wholesome movie together.
In addition, this year we were invited to participate in the National Day of Prayer festivities at the capitol in St. Paul . An actress in our chapter went on behalf of our group. We considered that quite an honor.
Oh, and we get the occasional press. I was recently interviewed in our local Christian newspaper that comes out monthly here in the Twin Cities – along with afore-mentioned actress – and it was written up in the Minnesota Christian Chronicle. This also gives us some marketing and brings new pray-ers into the group.
November 2009 Newsletter
Dear HPN Pray-ers, 
Welcome to our THANKSGIVING month of prayer. Our focus this month is on thanking God for all He is and gives and does for us. Let's remind those around us to be thankful to the Lord for His blessings, goodness and love! And thank YOU for praying with us!
SUMMARY:
- We praise God for the amazing 16 Hour Prayer Day
- Thank God for what He did at the American Film Market
- Thank God for Steve Turner and Bruce Wilkinson's visits
- Continue to pray for Carl Swenson as he battles cancer
- Continue to pray for the many unemployed in Hollywood
- Pray for John Travolta in his & his spiritual journey
- Pray for Christians to overcome spiritual battles
- Pray for writer Paul Haggis as he leaves Scientology
- Pray for Thanksgiving to focus on thanks to GOD here
- Pray for Skandar Keynes (Chronicles of Narnia's Edmund)
- Pray for the Chronicles of Narnia's cast and crew
- Pray with HPN member Gordon as he battles cancer
- Pray for Stephen Sanders' family & the 168 Film Project
- Pray for the growing Louisiana Film Industry
October 2009 Newsletter
Dear HPN members,
It’s October already – the leaves are changing, orange lights and decorations are starting to appear in LA and we have lots to pray for. Let’s respond to this Halloween month with prayers specifically for the Christians and for others in Hollywood who don’t yet know him. • Pray for Soap Opera actress Patricia Mauceri
• Keep praying for the Hollywood Thurs. prayer to grow
• Seven ways to pray for Christians in Hollywood
• Pray for the staff of the 168 Hour Film Festival
• Pray for Alec Baldwin and for his heart to melt
• Pray for HPN LCD, Hector & The Aslan Centre in Madrid
• Pray with us on Nov. 6th for a 16-hour day of prayer