The group's name change, as of April 2, 2006, reflects its new focus. The time has come. The Church in Topeka is ready to gel, to start working together on reaching the community. We call all church leaders and all who have the gift of evangelism, to equip the rest of us to reach the community!

I originally launched this group because I was assigned by my pastor to lead, for the time being, what was then envisioned to ultimately become a team of Christians from various churches in preparing a "spiritual map" of Topeka. However, I have recently come to realize that the greatest need here is not spiritual mapping first, but unified prayer and action--the ability of different local church bodies and their members to pray and work together on the needs of the community. After that gels, we will then have the power to approach spiritual strongholds in the community together and to reach the community for Christ as one Body.

For more information on "spiritual mapping," see Spiritual Mapping and Evangelism Planning for Topeka, Kansas, or the books on the subject by George Otis and C. Peter wagner.

This group is STILL intended to provide a forum for exchange of information among those doing spiritual mapping in Topeka, Kansas. But it is also now open to a larger purpose as a forum to foster open unity among Christian people and churches in Kansas by providing a forum for prayer requests for the needs of churches and church leaders, for information about unified activities in this area.

This group is a continuation of the discussion group of the same name formerly posted on InJesus.com.