What next?

How can you as a church take prayer to the streets of your community?

Prayer walking - regularly and at different times of the day and week prayer walk your community asking God to highlight the need and stir your hearts to pray for those needs. Download a guide to help you pray practically and imaginatively for your community.(pdf 2Mb)

Prayer carding - during a period of 24-7 prayer in your church could you give the people in your community an opportunity to ask for prayer by choosing a time to be out and about in your area with prayer cards asking people if there is anything they want prayer for. With this the key is we are trying to bless not persuade people to our way of thinking.

Who can you work with?

God blesses unity, we have seen that proven again and again. Don't have the resources to do a prayer room on your own, what other churches can you link up with and have a united praying presence in your community? Churches in Lurgan have prayed for a month at two different times of the year, showing a united praying presence.The churches on the North West District worked together to host a week of prayer.

Do you see opportunities outside your church building?

May 2008 saw an opportunity for us as a church to take prayer outside our church buildings to Belfast city centre. In Clonakilty and Newtownards churches joined together and used vacant shops on their main streets as prayer rooms. Is there a space in your community, a shop that lies vacant, a community centre that has a room or a school that has space, to move prayer into the heart of your community? In these contexts we find that prayer becomes missional, people get the opportunity to encounter the God we speak of when they walk into a prayer room.