Welcome to Our Newest Listener!

Henry Patrick Cochran was born last night, 9-9-09, at 10:16 pm to our dear friend and P4H guest host Matt Cochran and his wife Rose. Henry is shown listening to the show this morning with his proud father. Congratulations to Matt and Rose on this new blessing in their lives!

Merry Christmas from Pray for the Hostages

From all of us here at Pray for the Hostages, we would like to take this opportunity to say Merry Christmas to all. There will be no BTR show on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, but we will resume our regular schedule on Friday.

Today, we send our prayers to God Almighty for ALL who are being held against their will. Father, please bring each one home safely!

Pray For The Hostages Resumes Monday on BTR

After a week away, the daily Pray For The Hostages radio program on BTR will resume on Monday the 8th at noon eastern time.

Pastor Ed will co-host the show with Vicki on Monday and Wednesday.
Wyatt will co-host with Vicki on Tuesday and Thursday.
Annieb will be Friday's co-host with Vicki.


Click this link to go to the live show or to listen on archive.

Today's Show Will Be Postoned

Today's show on Blog Talk Radio will be postponed until a later date.

Thank you for your support for those being held hostage all around the world.

Our First One-Hour Show is Saturday

Our new weekly show where we will do some additional things that we don't have the time to do in our daily 15 minute broadcast. The show will be at 3:00 pm eastern time and you can click this link to go listen live.

Here are some of the items we will be discussing.

Training on prayer
Some folks may not know how to pray for issues such as this. We will share with you how you can pray and make a difference.

In-depth updates

Looking back at the most recent updates and results of situations that have ended.

Personal stories of the hostages that we know about.

Most on our list are people we know very little about outside of the fact that they are being held against their will. However, we do have some very specific information on some on our list that we would like you to know about.

Also, don't forget to check the archives for our daily shows. While most of these shows are pretty close to the same, there are some specific updates on nearly every show. Click this link to get to the list of archived shows.

1st BTR Prayer Show is Available to You Online

The first Pray for the Hostages program is now available for you to listen to online. You can go to http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Pray-4-the-Hostages to hear our initial broadcast.

There are some kinks for us to work on, but we accomplished most of what we wanted.

I also wanted to help those of you who may be new to Blog Talk Radio. When you click the link above you can go there and listen live, or if it is not during the show time you can choose from all of the archives available.

To get the most out of BTR and our show, you should register with BTR. By doing this, you can participate in the chat room, make comments, receive automatic notifications of the next show, etc. This is a totally free site, and I encourage you to make the most of your time while you listen.

If you are there during the live show, but will need to click on the orange "Click to Listen" box. Sometimes if you experience audio problems, as in no audio, a simple refresh will solve the problem.

As mentioned before, you may also listen in or participate in the on air dialogue by calling: 646-200-3329.

Join us each day at 12 noon eastern time --- I believe you will be blessed by participating.

Pastor Ed Boston

PS. Go listen to the archive of today's show and know that things will only get better from here.

Pray For The Hostages To Host BTR Program

Beginning on Monday, November 3rd at 12 noon eastern time, we will be hosting a daily time of prayer for hostages on Blog Talk Radio. The daily 15 minute online segment will focus on reading the names we have of those held hostage, followed by any announcements of new hostages or updates on current situations, and then a time of prayer.

Also, on Saturday's beginning on November 8th, we will have a full one hour show that will go further in depth on our topic, include special guests, and have a time of training on the importance and power of prayer.

The link to listen to the show live, contribute to the chat room, or to find any of the archives of all shows is: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Pray-4-the-Hostages

The listener dial-in number is (646) 200-3329. If you are unable to listen online, you can call in and listen or be a participant in the show.

We are looking forward to having our prayers answered and news of victory in this battle against evil.

Let Me Introduce Myself

Hello everyone - My name is Pastor Ed Boston, aka Cyber Pastor, and I'm honored to be the Chaplain for Pray for the Hostages. I've wanted to write this post for over a week now, but my laptop has been/is being worked on so it has had to wait.

When Vicki asked if I would serve along with her, Matt, and Wyatt, I was excited to be a part of such a fine group of people, but told her I would like a few days to pray about taking on another commitment.

I pastor a small church in south central Indiana, am the campus Chaplain for the Adult Services branch of an extension site of a Christian University, the Chaplain for the local police department, on-call Chaplain once a month at the closest hospital, I am an Ambassador for the Presidential Prayer Team, blog regularly, and my wife and I host a Blog Talk Radio program each Monday through Friday night.

Now you see why I wanted to pray about another commitment.

However, when praying I kept thinking about what a need there is for "Prayer for the Hostages". Vicki didn't know it, but she had hit my soft spot and that is prayer. I knew I had to join forces with this group.

Right now, I'm working on a training session for those who are part of this group and want to participate. For now, I would suggest a couple of things that maybe you are already doing but if not, please consider it.

1) Take a time-slot to commit a specific time where you will pray for those who this group was founded to pray for. You don't have to pray for an entire hour, but wouldn't it be awesome to fill up every time slot 24-hours a day, every day of the year.

2) Utilize the list of the hostages, and pray for each person - by name - at least one time a week, more if you can. It doesn't have to be a specific time, and no one has to know you are doing it but God and yourself.

Please let me know if there is any way I can help you personally. You can contact me at pastoredboston@sbcglobal.net .

May God Bless you, and may He especially be with each person we are praying for!

Pastor Ed