GOING DEEPER

Our featured book this month—PRAYER: Finding the Heart's True Home—is special in several ways. First, it is written by our own Richard Foster. Second, it flows out of a lifetime of seeking God. Third, it is timely. And fourth, it brings together under one binding millennia of experiences and kinds of prayer.

Briefly, PRAYER: Finding the Heart's True Home is a primer on prayer. Richard helps us understand, experience, and practice prayer in its many forms—from the simple prayer of beginning again to unceasing prayer. He clarifies the prayer process, answers common misconceptions, and shows the way into prayers of contemplation, healing, blessing, forgiveness, rest, and more.

Coming to prayer is like coming home. He writes, "Nothing feels more right, more like what we are created to be and to do." Richard shows how prayer can move us inward into personal transformation, upward toward intimacy with God, and outward to ministry. He leads us to a deeper understanding and practice of prayer, bringing us closer to God, to ourselves, and to our community.

Because the book is so special, we want to make you a special offer. We have made arrangements with the publisher to drop ship PRAYER from the bindery straight to us. We will then mail it to you two weeks before it is available in bookstores. And each book will be personally autographed by Richard.

For this special handling we are asking that you give a suggested donation of $25.00 to RENOVARÉ for each book, and we will receipt the difference between the regular retail price ($17.00) and the gift. In addition, the first one hundred orders will receive free a professionally recorded and duplicated audio tape that is based on the book.

PRAYER is a significant work. Richard's publisher, HarperSanFrancisco, considers it a landmark in the field of books on prayer. Besides buying one for yourself, consider giving it as a gift to family and friends for birthdays, Christmas, baptisms, confirmations, anniversaries, etc. For the sake of your own spiritual life—and that of your most loved people—fill out the order blank now. Purchasing PRAYER through this special offer makes sense because we'll all win—you'll grow spiritually and we'll be able to meet our payroll!

GROWING PAINS

We are still in the process of making all the arrangements required whenever one moves. Our new offices will be done July 24, and we are hoping to get the telephone system (the most important component!) up and going by August 3. Of course, these target dates are subject to instant change if we run into any problems.

Publicity for the first Renovaré Retreat (November 12-14, 1992) cosponsored by The Navigators has gone out from their headquarters at Glen Eyrie in Colorado Springs (P. O. Box 6000, 80934). We are excited about the four retreats we are doing with them over the next sixteen months and are working on teaming up with another center near Kansas City to do a retreat there in the fall of 1993.

Responses from people wanting to help sponsor a Local Conference have been wonderful. As you can see (above), we have three confirmed dates and are working on several others. Again, if you or anyone you know would be interested in helping us in this way, please call Lynda Graybeal at 316-261-5872.

The official publication date for the Devotional Readings and Spiritual Formation Group Workbooks has been changed to February. Jim Smith will be doing the revision work this summer, and then HarperSanFrancisco will publish and market them, utilizing their expertise and retail outlets.

Richard and Lynda met with the Founder's Fellowship in Denver the last of May and had a wonderful time of fellowship, mental stimulation, and reflection. The people at Downing House (3680 S. Downing St., Englewood, CO 80110) were gracious, the food was good, and everyone who attended went home a little fatter in spirit, mind, and body!

A group of Denver area people also met with Richard and Lynda to discuss the possibility of a National Conference. They were enthusiastic, excited, and supportive. We talked about holding the conference sometime in October, 1993, and they are now contacting people about serving on a Steering Committee. Please pray for this effort.

And pray for each of us individually; we need all of the help we can get to discern God's way for Renovaré.