Questions to Consider When Beginning or Evaluating a Local Prayer Ministry

Key Questions to Discover for Effective Congregational Prayer Ministry:

  1. What are the primary gifts of your church?

  2. What is the vision for prayer ministry from your senior pastor?  Other leadership?

  3. Do you have any guidelines/perimeters to work from?   If so, what are they?

  4. What are the expectations of you as "Prayer Coordinator" from the pastor and other leaders (do you have a job description) ?

  5. Do you have any budget for prayer?  If so, how is it  to be used?

  6. What do the people in your congregation need that will bridge them from:

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Prayerlessness -to-  Beginning to pray

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Praying Beginners -to-  Prayer Ministry Involvement

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Prayer Ministry Involvement -to-   Prayer Leadership

  1. What areas, personally,  do you need to be further equipped and supported in to increase your effectiveness as Prayer Coordinator and as a person growing in prayer?

From: [email protected] In doing our monthly meeting for Congregational Prayer Coordinators, I have developed some key questions that we are discussing that is proving valuable to discerning vision and goals for prayer coordinators in their local congregation. I thought this might be valuable for the network!

May His blessings abound to you! Lynn Heatley, Prayer Command Post

Congregational Prayer Coordinators Fellowship

Supporting the ministry of prayer in local congregations!

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937-3257 fax (909) 937-3427     email: [email protected]

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Revised: October 19, 2000.