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To Pray for this Week
This week our prayer focus is...
Madonna Louise Ciccone Ritchie, known as Madonna, is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City for a career in modern dance. After performing as member of the pop musical groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her self-titled debut album in 1983, and then produced three consecutive number-one studio albums on the Billboard 200 in the 1980s and four more since year 2000.
Madonna is known for her works that explore religious symbolism and sexual themes which also drew criticism from the Vatican in the late 1980s. In 1992, she founded an entertainment company, Maverick, which published a book of photographs (Sex). She also released a studio album (Erotica) and starred in a film (Body of Evidence) with erotic themes. These works generated negative publicity and coincided with a fall in commercial sales in the 1990s. Madonna's career was revived in 1998, when the release of her album Ray of Light garnered critical acclaim.
There has been speculation about her relationships with other women, including Naomi Campbell and Sandra Bernhard. The book Sex depicts her in sexual situations with men and women, and she has been credited with educating people about bisexuality. In 1996 Madonna conceived a daughter, Lourdes Maria (also known as Lola) by personal trainer Carlos Leon before marrying film director Guy Ritchie in 2000. She and Ritchie have two sons, Rocco and David Banda, a Malawian boy they adopted in 2006, which caused media allegations they violated that country's adoption laws.
Madonna has acted in 22 films. Although many failed critically and commercially, she earned a Golden Globe Award for her role in the 1996 film Evita. Guinness World Records list her as the world's most successful female recording artist of all time and the top-earning female singer in the world with an estimated net worth of US $490 million, having sold over 200 million records worldwide. On March 10, 2008, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Since the late 1990s, Madonna has been a devotee of the Kabbalah Centre (Kabbalah is a Jewish form of mysticism) and a disciple of its head, Rabbi Philip Berg, and his wife Karen. She also studies with Rabbi Eitan Yardeni, whose wife Sarah Yardeni runs her favorite charitable project, "Spirituality for Kids", a subsidiary of the Centre. Madonna donated $21 million towards a new Kabbalah school for children. Israeli rabbis condemned the song "Isaac" from Confessions on a Dance Floor because they believed it was a tribute to Rabbi Isaac Luria and claimed that Jewish law forbids commercialising a rabbi's name. Madonna claimed that she had named it after an Israeli singer and said, "The album isn't even out, so how could Jewish scholars in Israel know what my song is about?"
January 2009
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. Just print out this page and pass it on to your families, youth leaders and Bible study leaders and encourage kids, families and youth groups to 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!
As a Hollywood Prayer Network Member you will receive our monthly Prayer Newsletter outlining current prayer requests from Industry Professionals working in Hollywood . You can also view these and other requests on our Prayer Requests page. If you would like to commit to pray for an individual please consider joining our "IPT" or "I to I" Prayer Programs.
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
Separatism, avoidance, organized boycotts, and angry protests all have failed to redeem the media. Seldom are those in the field prayed for. Pray!® magazine's newest prayer card gives you 21 prayers to pray for the redemption of those in the media and entertainment fields. For more information click here.
December 2008 Newsletter
Merry Christmas HPN Members,
What a glorious season to be praying for the world's most influential people. We want them to encounter Jesus as their Savior - (the one powerful enough to come to earth as) that little baby born in the manger. May He touch hearts this month like never before!
SUMMARY:
- Praise God for the responses to the HPN year-end email
- Keep praying for the people in Bollywood, India
- Pray for Michael Jackson who has just converted to Islam
- Pray for Cat Stevens, who has also converted to Islam
- It's time to pray for Film Award shows nominations
- Pray for Macaulay Culkin, who lost his older sister Dakota
- Pray for SAG/AMPTP negotiations for actors' contracts
- The City of the Angels Film Festival is in Feb. ‘09
- Check out the list of books & DVDs that inspire
HPN 2008 Update!
Dear Faithful HPN members,
A very Merry Christmas to all of you!
I am so thankful for you as we close out the 2008 year. God has brought amazing people into our Hollywood Prayer Network family and your involvement through our EIGHT WAYS TO PRAY has been so encouraging! Our growth in monthly emails is over 50 percent, we have now over 1,000 "I to I Prayer Partnerships", our monthly HPN KIDS Prayer Calendar is a huge hit, we've sent out thousands of our "Hollywood Tribe" DVDs and media packets, I've been asked to speak at more churches this past year than ever before and our first matching grant was met within four months. You all are AWESOME!
In fact, I have two great stories to tell you to show how God is moving in the hearts and lives of Christians all over the country, motivating them to pray for Hollywood as the world's most influential mission field. First of all I got a call this past Spring from a wonderful HPN member in Texas who said that she was throwing a Fundraiser for her child's Christian High School and Hollywood was the theme. Because she is involved with HPN she thought it would be a fun idea to give out an HPN Red 90028 wristband to every student who attended. She purchased 400 wristbands from us and put them on every table at the event. Her event was a great success, she raised money for the school and now 400 kids are wearing our wristbands, reminding them to pray for Hollywood. Isn't that incredible?!
Secondly, in June I got a call from another terrific woman on the East coast who was lining up her church's summer Vacation Bible School. She decided to use the theme of Hollywood for the week and she invited me to send
information to her so that each child and their family could know about our ministry and be challenged to pray for Hollywood. I was so excited and sent them DVDs, wristbands and information. Well, they had a great week talking about and praying for Hollywood and at the end of the week they raised money from all of the children to donate to HPN. When I received their check I cried. It was one of the most touching experiences in my ministry - knowing that small children had t he opportunity to learn about praying for the people in Hollywood and their hearts would go out to us through prayer and sacrificial giving! It was a big check from a little church, representing the hearts of all of the children, their families, and especially their VBS leader who had the vision to challenge those children to focus on Hollywood. WOW! Both of these stories show that God is using all of us to make an eternal difference in the lives of not only Hollywood Christian and non-Christian professionals, but also in Christians around the country who, some for the first time ever, are adding Hollywood to their prayer lists. Thank you sooooooo much.
Because of our thrilling growth, and despite our struggling economy and reduced budget, my little staff and I are committed to pray big prayers for what we want God to accomplish through us in 2009. In fact, I got so excited about it, I have broken down our ministry into all of the areas where we are committed to pray, put dollar amounts by them to show you what we want to raise for the upcoming year and then created a link below so that you can click to find out if you would like to personally take ownership of any particular division of HPN. You could give toward the ministry as a whole, or you could be a part of distributing our Kids Prayer Calendar, help to duplicate more of our DVDs, produce more wristbands, expand our Incognito Team or print more HPN brochures. How great it would be to get more of our prayer warriors also as financial partners, joining our team here in Hollywood. Take a look, pray about whether the Lord would like you to become more invol ved, and regardless, keep praying for the people in our mission field. Please be sure to tell your friends and family to do the same.
We thank the Lord every day for all of you, your vision, your hearts and your understanding of culture. We thank you for joining us in believing that by praying for Hollywood, we will see cultural revival!
Have a joyous Christmas and a very Happy New Year,
Warmly,
Karen Covell, Founding Director, HPN
Also Caren Bream, Program Coordinator and Gloria Vives, Prayer Coordinator
Click on this link for more info.on our HPN divisions of prayer:
Click here to go straight to Paypal:
Or, you can send your tax deductible donation to:
Hollywood Prayer Network
1763 N. Gower St.
Hollywood, CA 90028
Do you have any questions, or do you want to talk to any of us at HPN? Just call (323) 462-8486 ext.106
Hollywood Prayer Network is a division of the Hollywood Entertainment Alliance, a non-profit 501c3 religious corporation.
“I to I” Prayer Program Information
HPN now has over 800 "I to I" Prayer Partnerships where an intercessor on the outside of Hollywood is praying specifically for one industry professional working in the entertainment industry. We match men with men and women with women. Please join our partnerships either as an intercessor or as an industry professional.
Do you need an intercessor?
Are you a professional in the entertainment industry? Would you like an intercessor to pray for you? If so, then we want to make sure you have your own personal prayer partner praying for you as you work in the entertainment industry anywhere in the world!
Our I to I program matches industry professionals with outside intercessors to pray specifically for you on a regular basis.
Industry Professionals - Click here to get started
Would you like to be an intercessor for an industry professional?
If you would like to intercede one-on-one there
are people waiting for your partnership. With our prayer
partnership, you can communicate with and pray for an
industry professional on a consistent basis.
are people waiting for your partnership. With our prayer
partnership, you can communicate with and pray for an
industry professional on a consistent basis.
Intercessors - Click here to get started
November 2008 Newsletter
Dear HPN members, It's THANKSGIVING time and there is so much to be thankful for! Let's make this month a time of thankfulness to our Lord, for all of our abundance, for His love, provision and strength. And may we pray for all those who don't yet know Him, that they can experience His love and be truly full of thanks during the Thanksgiving season.
SUMMARY:
- Our matching grant has been matched!
- Our local chapters are growing!
- Karen speaking at the National Day of Prayer Summit
- Dena Higley highlighted in October's PEOPLE Magazine
- Pray that the seeds sown at the American Film Market will have an eternal impact
- Pray for divine comfort for Jennifer Hudson
- Continue to pray for the power and influence of films and television
- Pray for the people in Hollywood who dread the holidays
- The Twin Cities HPN local chapter had an HPN booth at a Christian Fair in Minneapolis
- Please pray for the Marcarelli's as they complete a documentary on the persecuted church
- Members of our Christian community are producing documentaries on different sex trafficking stories
- Praying for Hollywood every Thursday evening
- AEM - Men's Prayer Meetings
- Breakfast and prayer at Christian Assembly in Eaglerock, CA
October Newsletter
Dear
HPN members,
It's October, with Halloween, and the big pre-election month flurry. Hollywood is revved up with political movies coming out and celebrities taking stands. Let's pray that Jesus is lifted up this month in the world's most influential mission field. It's time for us to fall before our Lord and tell Him that we need Him desperately - - for that's just where He wants us!
SUMMARY:
- HPN's 5 minute DVD is now on YouTube!
- Joe Eszterhas's Christian testimony is beautiful!
- HPN is praying for you to donate toward our $18,000 matching grant
- HPN is now using Good Search!
- Pray for Bill Maher and his militant pro-atheism Doc Religilous
- Pray for the producers of the pro-faith film An American Carol
- Pray for the new study by Baylor called What Americans Really Believe
- Please pray for Christian singer Ray Boltz and his family
- Pray for Paul Newman's daughter, Nell, after her father passed away
- Pray for Paul McCartney and his salvation
- Pray for the Annual meeting of the Mission America Coalition (MAC)
- HPN is in need of a volunteer to help us write Spiritual profiles
- Pray for Keith and Martin's inde film, thriller "Double"
- Joe Eszterhas will speak at the upcoming Act One Conference
- The National Media Prayer Breakfast is moved to March 6, 2009
NDOP Prayer Summit
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September 2008 Newsletter
Dear HPN members,
September is here and so is school, Fall weather and new TV shows! What
a great time to pray for our community as a new season springs up.
Thanks for praying with us for Hollywood.....
SUMMARY:
- PRAISE to God for Joe Eszterhas, a Hollywood screenwriter who became a Christian
- HPN "I to I" prayer partnerships are growing to almost 1,000 but we need more
- HPN has received more generous donations to help match our MATCHING GRANT
- The new 2008-2009 TV season has begun. Please be wise in watching and pray
- David William Duchovny, TV actor has checked in to rehab and needs prayer
- Scientology is a leading force of evil in Hollywood and also in France
- Pray for Will Smith's upcoming partnership with Randall Wallace
- Davita, in our Bollywood Chapter, asks us to pray for Hindu mobs
- Heidi from Minneapolis Local Chapter asks us to pray for Michael Ireland
- Pray for the upcoming events in Hollywood who lift up and encourage artists
- The National Media Prayer Breakfast is now being held on March 6, 2009