Prayer Chains

The church has three 'prayer chains' - groups of people who can be contacted to pray for the needs of anyone who requests it. One 'chain' covers immediate or urgent needs (usually up to 6 weeks), one covers 'intermediate' needs (from 6 weeks up to about 9 months ) and the third 'chain' covers long term or permanent needs.

Only one person co-ordinates the whole thing and all requests for prayer will be referred to that 'co-ordinator' who then allocates them to the appropriate 'Chain'.

A request for prayer is passed to the first person on the chain who then rings the next, and so on down the chain (usually about 6 people). In this way, any requests for prayer can be met speedily and without too many burdens on anyone's telephone bill.

We are asked to pray for all sorts of things, often a sudden illness or accident. But also longer term needs such as jobs or looming unemployment, family concerns, marriage and relationship problems. Sometimes its been just day to day things such as an important meeting, a hospital appointment or a job interview or exams.

Inclusion on the 'prayer chain' is with the consent of the person concerned where possible, or their close family, and if a request comes from a third party we try to establish that the person concerned would be happy to be prayed for in this way. Confidentiality is paramount and the prayer need is only ever shared with the immediate 'prayers'. Even then, only a minimum of information is necessary - such as - 'please pray for John whose job is on the line' or 'please pray for Mary whose child is having problems at school'. Since we believe God already knows us better than we know ourselves, we also believe that He knows the details - so we don't have to.

We have found that prayer brings amazing results - sometimes the answer is instant, sometimes it takes longer. Someone has described answers to prayer as either 'rockets' or 'tortoises' - the rocket is immediate - the tortoise is slower but it keeps moving as long as we keep praying - and arrives eventually.

Try it -
you will not be disappointed.

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