prayer – Prayer Cares

Making the most out of your prayer app requires effective communication. In order to help with this, one of the recent upgrades we have made to our PrayerCares app gives Lead Pastors and Prayer Coordinators the ability to automatically create email lists of the Prayer Partners within their ministry. These lists can then be copied and pasted into the personalized email to your Prayer Partner team.

I have the privilege of serving a parish. So for me, this prayer ministry resource is something that I actually use with congregational members, to serve others- both inside and outside our church. This is more than just “technology”; this is ministry. Today, I used this feature to send out an email regarding an Answered Prayer, to our Prayer Partners. It was so nice to know that I am using the most current email address list when communicating. Just two days ago, I added another Prayer Partner to our digital prayer ministry team. Because he is in our PrayerCares app, I didn’t have to look up his contact information anywhere else. His information is right there, in the same place as the prayer requests we are working on.

The more you communicate with your digital prayer ministry team; the more ministry they are going to get done. So, make it a habit to “talk” regularly with them. Hopefully, this new feature will help you in that process!

Jim Buckman, Founder

I have started training our church members in how to use this prayer app for our ministry and it is really fun. The first five people to sign up to be Prayer Partners in our church’s prayer app are all women- Jan, Kristen, Maree, Judy and Evie.

These five ladies are all unique there is a former Navy medical officer, a PhD, a car enthusiast, a teacher and a business owner; there are many shared interests- golfing, witnessing, sports, travel and others. All are devoted Christians and passionate about their faith. And, there are many more women and men just like them in our church. We praise God from Whom all blessings flow!

Each of these women have aspirations and ideas about how use this prayer app to better serve members of our community and of our congregation better. Each see ways to leverage this technology in the service of the Gospel. It is my privilege as their pastor to “equip the Saints for His service”.

I am looking forward to prayers being added to our prayer database and to seeing the Holy Spirit guide His church in the care which is provided.

In Romans chapter 16 the Apostle Paul mentions several women by name starting with the better known Prisca and then going on to speak of five women who are vital in the ministry- Mary, Junia, Julia, Tryphaena and Tryphosa. Paul also makes thankful mention of female relatives of certain disciples in this chapter.

My personal prayer life was impacted by my mother. My mother regularly encouraged me to say my personal prayers before I went to sleep and my mom has asked me many times over the years to pray for certain people or situations. Martin Luther once said that a mother’s heart was her children’s classroom.

Let us thank God for the Women of Prayer in our lives. Amen?