Unidentified Man: Tonight, there is no Jews, there is no Greeks, there is no Chinese, there is no Americans. We join in one spirit to exalt in the name of Jesus Christ.
BOB CURRIE: These people from around the world have gathered to learn what organizers call "praying with power." People of faith believe in the power of prayer to close the gap between heaven and earth, between God and humanity. And here in Colorado Springs, a place considered to be the heart of evangelical America, a group of Christian organizations has formed a kind of command center for spiritual communication, the World Prayer Center.
Mr. PETER WAGNER (Co-Founder, World Prayer Center): We use prayer ... for intimacy with God. We use prayer to communicate to God what we feel our needs are, our personal needs are, our family needs are, our community needs. And we also use prayer to hear from God. So prayer is essentially a two-way communication.CURRIE: A two-way communication aided by the latest technological tools. Volunteers and professional staff at the newly opened $6 million facility receive prayer requests by the Internet, by phone, and by fax, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Unidentified Woman #1: And, Father, we have a burden for our brothers and sisters in Pakistan.
Unidentified Woman #2: Yeah.
Unidentified Woman #1: And we have just been given word that we have missionaries who've been arrested.
CURRIE: There are plans in the coming years to use the Internet to link similar prayer centers in 120 of the world's industrialized nations.
Mr. PATRICK FINNEGAN (World Prayer Center): People starving in a small country, if somebody finds out about it, we can add that information to our database, and then millions of people can be praying in a very short period of time.
Professor RICHARD FOSTER (Author, PRAYER): They have often been on the forefront of many technologies. I mean, some of the early ones like radio, you see how the -- some of the early radio speakers and teachers and evangelists, and not just evangelicals, but they have certainly been on the forefront of that.
CURRIE: But officials at the World Prayer Center say technology hasn't taken over, just enabled intercessors to coordinate the focus of their prayers. Leaders of the prayer center are hoping to use prayer in a part of the world they call the 10/40 window, an area with over 1,700 mostly non-Christian ethnic groups and a total population in the billions, a prime target for something Peter Wagner calls spiritual warfare.
