MARK S MIRZA is someone with a passion for prayer. And yet, he remembers exactly where he and his wife were sitting in 2004 when Dr. Stanley, his pastor at the time, introduced a pastor on stage as “The New Prayer Pastor.” Mark says, “Unfortunately I also remember EXACTLY what I was thinking. I thought, ‘what a BORING job that must be.’ But prayer has now become my passion.” MINISTRY He led the men’s prayer ministry for Dr. Charles Stanley at First Baptist Church, Atlanta, GA. From March 2006 until September 2010 when Common Thread Ministries started to pick up steam. Since November 2010 he has been helping churches and individuals with prayer on a full time basis. As part of the ministry, he coaches men and women, churches and organizations in how to start up and improve existing prayer groups. But not just in the United States. He also goes back to Kenya teaching there where he has a small team of indigenous teachers who are engaging a larger and larger group of would be prayer war