Churches and Christians have a knowledge of prayer; we intercede, make petitions and in our despair cry out to God in our need.  There is another type of prayer the church needs to practice and possibly learn or re-learn and that is the prayer that fuels the mission of the church into the world. A prayer that builds up and and is ready, willing and able to do battle in spiritual warfare against the forces of darkness.  In these days of conflict, strife, dissension and division, we need people of prayer who will penetrate the darkness of this world armed with the light of Christ.  In the book of Nehemiah we see a profile of what this looks like.  While building a wall around Jerusalem the workers came under siege by those in the country side loathing their efforts. So they worked with a trowel in one hand and fought with a sword in the other.  In doing so they prevailed.  A Trowel and A Sword will take you on a journey to learn this needful type of prayer; learning about the obstacles, language, vocabulary and posture of frontline missional prayer from a Pentecostal pastor and an Epsicopal priest whose voices find harmony as they delve into frontline, missional warfare that changes the world.