Many people have a favorite place to pray outside of their place of worship. For some it may be a quiet room, or outdoors someplace beautiful and secluded, or maybe even in the car. Increasingly, though, people pray online. OurPrayer, part of Guideposts’ Ruth Stafford Peale Prayer Power Network, has launched a dynamic new site to answer that need and provide more people with more ways to enrich their prayer life online at www.OurPrayer.org
“It is our desire to inspire and unite the people visiting OurPrayer.org,” said Reverend Dr. Peola Hicks, Guideposts Prayer Department Manager, “and to become a global community of praying people maximizing the proven power of prayer…all while maintaining our unique commitment to pray by name and need for each individual request received. We are greatly expanding our prayer ministry to be able to help many more people from all walks of life so each can enrich their personal prayer life. Free to join and easy to use, OurPrayer.org provides new ways to use technology for prayer, devotion and spiritual intimacy.” Reverend Hicks added, “The internet hasn’t really changed what people do, just how we do it. It’s truly transformed the ability to reach out and connect with others around the world. Our focus is reaching out and connecting others to God through prayer. For with God nothing will be impossible.” (
According to Reverend Dr. Pablo Diaz, Guideposts Vice President of Ministries, “Prayer is the greatest contribution we can offer one another. It is a strong and meaningful exercise of love, faith, and hope. We welcome all to join us as OurPrayer transforms the world through prayer.”
OurPrayer.org is a faith-filled community brimming with inspiring devotionals, answered prayer, uplifting articles, and much more. The most innovative and unique features on the new site aim to make OurPrayer.org the premiere destination for online prayer and prayer community. Using state-of-the-art social networking technology, there are simple, user-friendly tools to form online prayer groups with friends, family, whole church congregations, and even people anywhere in the world. There are easy and creative ways individuals can have personalized prayer pages where people can come to get to know each other, create prayer blogs or keep an online spiritual journal. OurPrayer.org features purpose-driven content, available in multi-media formats, and is poised to be the most technologically advanced and accessible worldwide prayer ministry in history.
Guideposts has a long history of providing ways for people to come together in prayer and through the power of shared personal experience. For more than 50 years, aided by local prayer volunteers across the country, they have prayed for tens of thousands of weekly prayer requests coming from the mail, on the phone and now through the internet. Each request is prayed for by name and need. That won’t change at OurPrayer.org, where a variety of options for prayer are offered including: prayer requests can be private (only OurPrayer trained volunteers will see and pray for it) or public (request will go to the main prayer page for the general public to see and pray for). One of OurPrayer’s special features, real time prayer, provides the ability to have a one-on-one real time prayer session with an OurPrayer volunteer. Members will also have the ability to send prayer requests to friends and/or groups so they can pray for them as well and users requesting a personal prayer response will receive a personalized prayer sent directly back to them.
Anyone with a prayer request can go to OurPrayer.org, which also is the hub for special prayer activities, such as our annual Good Friday Day of Prayer on March 21, 2008, and our Thanksgiving Day of Prayer events in the fall.
OurPrayer is seeking hundreds of volunteers to help handle the increased number of prayer requests that come in each day. Prayer volunteers are able to help in three areas: Web volunteers are given access to a secured area to pray for each need while online. Other volunteers answer calls at home, as their schedules permit, on our toll-free prayer line. Personal Prayer Response Volunteers are trained to write personal prayers to encourage and comfort those struggling with distressing circumstances.
Anyone wishing to become a prayer volunteer can find out more by visiting OurPrayer.org or calling 1-800-935-0158 ext. 4347.
