Training Our First Group of Members in Using This Resource

I began training our first group of members at our church in how to use this prayer resource. Our group is not large, there are five people in it. Two of the members are very successful businesswomen. The other three are very happily retired members who have a passion for Jesus and His ministry. I am blessed to have these co laborers in Christ.

Our training will last four sessions all together. The first week I went through the history of how God led me to develop this resource for prayer and care. I spent time talking about the purpose and hopes in developing this. I think it is important to take some time to talk about this because it helps everyone get the same picture of how we will use this resource.

The first thing I trained our members on was how to add a prayer request from our prayercares.org website. We talked through the normal questions of how confidential prayer requests are handled- the person sharing their prayer request simply clicks on the “Confidential Prayer Request” button.

Next week, we create identities for the people in our training and they will become Prayer Partners in our prayer app. With this, they will be able to access our prayer ministry database 24/7. They can see for themselves, anytime they want to, what the church is doing to take care of those who have shared prayer requests with us- and these prayer requests can come from members / non members.

When I first built this prayer app, I was a network supported missionary. I would go to churches, conferences- really anywhere I was invited 😊 and share with whomever would listen to me about how this app could help them. Now, I am a pastor serving in a church and this is giving me an additional perspective on the actual use of a resource like this in a congregation and I am very thankful for this.

I am also glad that our “trainees” want to help improve this app with their suggestions- and they had some in our very first class 😊 As I shared at the very beginning of our first session; this resource is and always will be a “work in progress”. I am a firm believer in the Continuous Improvement Process when it comes to work performance and by God’s grace, He will grant the increase. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to me with any thoughts or suggestions- jbuckman007@cs.com