Does anyone know what a seasonal prayer profile is and where I can find one? I want our pastors to fill one out because we're having concentrated, churchwide prayer for them in October.
Kathy,
This social networking stuff is very new to me but I like it. Thanks for your suggestions and bless you as you continue to call others to pray for their pastors. I agree that the enemy does not want us organizing prayer for our pastors. I read Preyed on or Prayed for and gave it to our adult ed leader who is also our pastor's wife asking what she thought about having all the Sunday School classes cover that material in October. Now all the Sunday School leaders have read the book and the church council is also reading it. In October it will be taught and practiced in Sunday School. My prayer is that our congregation will catch a passion for praying for our pastors and as we do God will do a work among us.
Meredith,
After 23 yrs my family and I am no longer attending that particular church. I did go and check their current website content and they are no longer featuring that information. It was pretty basic though, a calendar with names plugged in. It didn't matter the particular month because the person who prayed on the first of the month always prayed on the first of every month. You could just list the days in a row one underneath the other with the names beside without the calendar. The format doesn't matter just the PRAYER:) I was mtg with a pastor once and explained that we had put in place monthly prayer support for our pastor, he looked at me straight in the eye and said "Oh how I would love for my congregation to do that for me." I wanted to reply - give me some names of members of your church... God has given me a real heart for pastors and it sounds like he has laid that blessed call on you as well:) I have found after 5 yrs on this particular prayer road that it can be an uphill battle. Especially when others don't carry the same passion for prayer that you do. But I have been reminded soo many times by my faithful Father that I just need to be obedient to Him in this call. So sorry for the ramble but I am soo passionate about prayer for pastors that when I find another torch carrier it encourages me.:)
Meredith,
Have you read the Prayer Saturated Church by Cheryl Saks, or Partners in Prayer by John Maxwell. Another great resource is Preyed on or Prayed for by Terry Teykl. They all provide a great structure for how to pray for your pastor. We did a pastors prayer shield (kinda modeled after John Maxwell's Skyline Church but we involved woman as well as kids, anyone who wanted to pray) where different people signed up for the same day every month to cover their pastor in prayer. We organized it by birthdays or anniversary's and that way more people were apt to remember on what day they were to pray. We also but a link on our churches website with a scheduled prayer calendar and verses that could be used to pray over our pastors. We also encouraged them to follow it up w/ a note of encouragement to let their pastors know that they were prayed for and loved. Being a pastors kid I know first hand how very important it is to let our pastors know that they are loved and appreciated:)
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This social networking stuff is very new to me but I like it. Thanks for your suggestions and bless you as you continue to call others to pray for their pastors. I agree that the enemy does not want us organizing prayer for our pastors. I read Preyed on or Prayed for and gave it to our adult ed leader who is also our pastor's wife asking what she thought about having all the Sunday School classes cover that material in October. Now all the Sunday School leaders have read the book and the church council is also reading it. In October it will be taught and practiced in Sunday School. My prayer is that our congregation will catch a passion for praying for our pastors and as we do God will do a work among us.
After 23 yrs my family and I am no longer attending that particular church. I did go and check their current website content and they are no longer featuring that information. It was pretty basic though, a calendar with names plugged in. It didn't matter the particular month because the person who prayed on the first of the month always prayed on the first of every month. You could just list the days in a row one underneath the other with the names beside without the calendar. The format doesn't matter just the PRAYER:) I was mtg with a pastor once and explained that we had put in place monthly prayer support for our pastor, he looked at me straight in the eye and said "Oh how I would love for my congregation to do that for me." I wanted to reply - give me some names of members of your church... God has given me a real heart for pastors and it sounds like he has laid that blessed call on you as well:) I have found after 5 yrs on this particular prayer road that it can be an uphill battle. Especially when others don't carry the same passion for prayer that you do. But I have been reminded soo many times by my faithful Father that I just need to be obedient to Him in this call. So sorry for the ramble but I am soo passionate about prayer for pastors that when I find another torch carrier it encourages me.:)
Thank you for your input. I wondered if you could give me your church website because I would like to look at how you did your prayer calender.
Have you read the Prayer Saturated Church by Cheryl Saks, or Partners in Prayer by John Maxwell. Another great resource is Preyed on or Prayed for by Terry Teykl. They all provide a great structure for how to pray for your pastor. We did a pastors prayer shield (kinda modeled after John Maxwell's Skyline Church but we involved woman as well as kids, anyone who wanted to pray) where different people signed up for the same day every month to cover their pastor in prayer. We organized it by birthdays or anniversary's and that way more people were apt to remember on what day they were to pray. We also but a link on our churches website with a scheduled prayer calendar and verses that could be used to pray over our pastors. We also encouraged them to follow it up w/ a note of encouragement to let their pastors know that they were prayed for and loved. Being a pastors kid I know first hand how very important it is to let our pastors know that they are loved and appreciated:)