Healing Prayer

Dr. David Chotka is the founder and director of Spirit-Equip Ministries, an organization designed to help people grow in the spiritual disciplines one small step at a time (www.spiritequip.com). He serves as the cochair of the Alliance Pray! Team (APT--the prayer mobilization team of Christian and Missionary Alliance Canada) and, for more than twenty-five years, has taught prayer principles and equipping both nationally and internationally. In his role with APT, Dr. Chotka was the principal author of the Transform Prayer! Course--a resource that has been translated into French, Mandarin, and Cantonese (www.alliancepray.ca). In addition, he has been a lead pastor for more than thirty years and has preached in seventeen countries to crowds large and small, teaching on such topics as "Healing Prayer," "Prayerful Discernment," "Spiritual Gifts and their Use," and "Unearthing the Depths of the Lord's Prayer." He is the author of Power Praying, Sifting Our Discerning, and 50 Days of Prayer: Discerning the Voice. Dr. Chotka has four earned degrees, including a master's degree in biblical studies from Regent College in Vancouver and a doctoral degree from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He lives in southwestern Ontario, Canada, is married to Elizabeth, has two adult children, plays the piano for fun, and lets his fourteen-pound dog take him for a walk from time to time. Dr. Maxie Dunnam is minister at large of Christ United Methodist Church in Memphis, Tennessee. He has a doctoral degree in divinity from Asbury Theological Seminary and a master's degree in theology from Emory University. During more than sixty years of ministry, he has served as pastor of rural, suburban, and urban congregations. Apart from pastoral assignments, he has served as world editor of The Upper Room and president of Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. During his tenure on staff at the Upper Room, the Walk to Emmaus and the Academy of Spiritual Formation were begun. For the ten years he served as president of Asbury, the school pioneered the use of technology establishing a virtual campus and a second geographical campus in Orlando, Florida. In his role as minister at large at Christ Church, he cohosts a weekly television program, and he represents and champions the expansive missional outreach of the congregation, including his commitment to public education, which he believes is the civil rights issue of this century. Maxie has a passion for assisting ministers in their spiritual growth, especially those who are planting faith communities among the underserved. He is a prolific writer, having authored more than forty books, including The Workbook of Living Prayer, which has sold more than a million copies and has been printed in six languages. Dr. Dunnam and his wife, Jerry, an accomplished artist, have three children and four grandchildren.