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Tom Jordan next Prayer Breakfast Speaker!
Tom Jordan, a news anchor and reporter for more than 20 years, will be the event keynote speaker with the theme: Respect Matters.
Tom Jordan knows what it takes to be a news maker. He has worked as a news anchor and reporter for more than 20 years, and is currently hosting a show on WJR 760 AM. Mr. Jordan is the Founder and President of The Jordan Group, which provides media training and communications consulting for corporate executives, physicians, publicists, non-profit groups and just about anybody who plans to face the news media.
In addition to leading the Public Relations department at a large Southern California agency, he is a three-time Emmy award winning broadcast journalist. Tom’s breadth of experience includes his news coverage of some of the nation’s biggest stories; multiple presidential campaigns; the deadly Southern California wildfires; breaking coverage for NBC News on the death of president Gerald Ford; the Winter Olympics; the downturn and then turn-around in the U.S. Economy; and much more.
It has been said of Tom that he is a true professional, great storyteller, and a genuinely sincere person.
He and his wife have four children and reside in the Detroit area.
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Breakfast returning in-person May 2022
Prayer Has Always Been Virtual.
“But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” Matthew 6:5
The Livonia Community has been blessed with decades of annual corporate prayer at its prayer breakfast. There is great power in corporate worship and a community who embraces it in truth and humility will benefit from its fruits. However, the forced absence of congregating in this way should not be seen as a negative, but perhaps even a positive.
The forced isolation of worship and prayer should not weaken us in faith, but should strengthen us individually and as a community. Faith is an individual journey and our relationship to God is an intensely personal one. The prayers we pray ‘in our rooms with the door shut’ are those no one else ever witnesses or knows about. Yet its these prayers, our secret (isolated/virtual) prayers to God, that He promises to reward. Imagine the intensity of our corporate gatherings of worship if we all had personal and intensely private prayer lives God was rewarding. If we rely on corporate worship only, it is a far cry from the relationship God wants with us personally, and from what He intended the corporate experience to be.
Prayer has always been virtual. We pray to an unseen God with a communication channel being the Holy Spirit. For a second year the Livonia Community Prayer Breakfast will not be meeting in person. It can feel disappointing as this is the largest annual community gathering in the city and one of the longest running in the state. I choose to see this as a time of renewal and refocus. The event should not be about the speaker, the music, or the food. It is about a community coming together in prayer. Whether it is in a fine banquet facility, or in our room with the door closed and logged into Zoom, we will pray, and it will be rewarded.
Ken McMullen
Chairman, Livonia Community Prayer Breakfast
May 6, 2021
7:30 AM
Email chamber@livonia.org to register.
‘The Heavens Declare’ An Online Prayer Event 2020
The 2020 Livonia Community Prayer Breakfast was cancelled due to the Corona virus. On June 22, 2020 an online prayer event was streamed entitled, ‘The Heavens Declare.’ The video has received over 3,800 views and climbing. Please enjoy and share with others.
Dr. Erwin Lutzer next Prayer Breakfast Speaker!
The 2019 Livonia Community Prayer Breakfast will be held on Thursday, May 23, at Burton Manor, with guest speaker Dr. Erwin Lutzer.
Erwin W. Lutzer is Pastor Emeritus of The Moody Church where he served as the Senior
Pastor for 36 years. He earned a B.Th. from Winnipeg Bible College, a Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary, a M.A. in Philosophy from Loyola University, and an honorary LL.D. from the Simon Greenleaf School of Law.
A clear expositor of the Bible, he is the featured speaker on three radio programs that are heard on more than 1,000 outlets in the United States and around the world:
- Running to Win—a daily Bible-teaching broadcast;
- Moody Church Hour—The Moody Church’s Sunday morning worship service;
- Songs in the Night—an evening program that’s been airing since 1943.
Dr. Lutzer is also an award-winning author of numerous books including: The Church In Babylon, Rescuing The Gospel, He Will Be The Preacher, The Cross In The Shadow Of The Crescent, One Minute After You Die, When A Nation Forgets God, and Christian Bookseller’s Gold Medallion Award winner, Hitler’s Cross.
He and his wife Rebecca have co-written the books: Life-Changing Bible Verses You Should Know and Jesus, Lover Of A Woman’s Soul.
His speaking engagements include Bible conferences and seminars, both domestically and internationally, including: Russia, the Republic of Belarus, Germany, Scotland, Guatemala, and Japan. He also leads tours to Israel and the cities of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.
Dr. Lutzer and Rebecca live in the Chicago area. They have three grown children and eight grandchildren.
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“Rediscover Your Faith”
“
Rediscover Your Faith” will be the theme for the May 3rd, 2018 Livonia Community Prayer Breakfast. Presenting this topic through message and music will be Steve Wiggins.
Steve Wiggins is a five-time Grammy award nominee with his band, Big Tent Revival, and has penned ten #1 radio singles including “Two Sets Of Joneses,” “Choose Life,” and “W.W.J.D.”. Steve has served on the staffs of Willow Creek, South Barrington Il; Harvest Christian Fellowship, Riverside CA; and most recently, Bellevue Baptist Church, Memphis Tn. He is the founder of Living Room Study and Groundworks Ministries, disicpleship ministries focusing on Biblical literacy. Having written a chapter-by-chapter devotonal of the entire Bible, Steve is also the content provider for The Bible Challenge www.bellevue.org/challenge, The 
Hope Challenge https://www.facebook.com/HopeForAmericaChallenge/ , the Pocket Testament League’s “21 Day Challenge” https://www.ptl.org/resources/21dc.php and SOF ministries’ Surrender Daily devotioanls, focusing on military Special Operations personel and their families. His article, Building A Culture Of Worship, was recently published in Mid America Baptist Theoligical Seminary’s “The Journal” http://www.mabts.edu/sites/all/themes/midamerica/uploads/Wiggins–Building-a-Culture-of-Worship.pdf Steve resides in Memphis Tn with his wife Misti and children.
The Livonia Community Prayer Breakfast will be held at Burton Manor in Livonia on May 3, 2018 at 7 a.m.
Dr. John Arthur Nunes will be the speaker for the 41st annual Livonia Community Prayer Breakfast!
Dr. Nunes will be speaking on the theme, “Re-Imagining Yourself as a Peacemaker.” Order your tickets today! Click Here for Ticket Information.
When: Thursday, May 7 2015 7 a.m.-8:45 a.m. Doors open at 6:15 a.m.
Where: St. Mary’s Cultural Center
18100 Merriman Road, Livonia
Dr. Nunes is the Emil and Elfriede Jochum Chair at Valparaiso University, a professorship supporting the study of Christian values in public and professional life.
From 2007 to 2013, John was the President and CEO of Lutheran World Relief where he led staff in 17 countries working with communities that were working their way out of poverty. Prior to LWR, he taught at Concordia University Chicago and served in inner city settings in Detroit and Dallas, Texas.
Dr. Nunes received a Bachelor of Arts from Concordia College in Ann Arbor, MI; a Master of Divinity from Concordia Seminary in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada; and both a Master of Theology and a Doctor of Philosophy with an emphasis in postcolonial identity from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. He has also received honorary doctorates from Concordia University, Ann Arbor, and Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. At Valparaiso, he is affiliated with Christ College –the honors college of the University; Campus Ministries; and the Departments of English, Theology, and International Studies.
Dr. Nunes is the author of “Voices from the City: Issues and Images of Urban Preaching” and, with his wife Monique Nunes, “Little Things Make Big Differences: A Story about Malaria.” With Mary Joy Philip and Charlie Collier, he edited and contributed to the recently released, “Churrasco: A Theological Feast in Honor of Vitor Westhelle.”
John considers himself a recovering Scrabble-holic and is a lover of poetry and music. His wife, Monique, is the Assistant Director of Multicultural Student Programs at Valparaison University and they together are the parents of six grown children and an expanding entourage of grandchildren.
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