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Do you have a Prayer Guard for your Missionary?
Developing a well connected prayer team is crucial for every missionary. Communication speed has certainly increased over the years with the advent of e-mail and websites. Yet, issues of secure communication for confidential prayer needs remain a hindrance in getting vital prayer support for individual, family, and ministry needs. As a prayer leader in your church, the following information could be helpful to you in recruiting prayer for the missionaries your church supports.
PrayerCentral.net has released a new online prayer tool that helps missionaries and their prayer forces stay connected. PrayerGuard.net keeps the needs of the missionaries in front of their intercessors back home. It targets dozens of short topics with scripture and sample prayers they keep your worker’s shield up and active. And it takes almost no effort on the missionary’s part. These short topics are common areas of prayer needs for workers. No specific locations or names are given that might jeopardize their work. I found this to be an effective tool to help initiate prayer for friends working in sensitive regions of the world.
Here’s the best feature. Many of our people want to pray for their
missionary friends, but without reminders every week, only pray when a
newsletter or information on them comes. PrayerGuard sends an automatic
email reminder each week to bring people to the missionary’s personal
prayer page and the 3-minute on-line prayer session.
Workers can also post their personal prayer needs, stories, photos
etc. as often as they like. They can even tie their PrayerGuard into
their an e-group. To see a sample and get a free PrayerGuard profile,
have your missionaries visit: http://www.prayerguard.net/?page_id=177
While you are at this site, you can also click on the UPG Prayer
Button which displays a different unreached people group every hour.
Each of the 6,900 UPGs will cycle through a 3 minute on-line prayer
session for that group. The goal is to pray through all 6,900 people
groups over the next 10 months as part of the Ethne (www.ethne.net)
prayer focus. By pasting a few lines of code on your website, you can
mobilize prayer for thousands of Unreached People Groups. See it in
action and get the code for this button at: http://prayerguard.net/upg
Lisa Flake is the Missions Prayer Coordinator for Harvest Prayer
Ministries. She is available to put on seminars on effective missions
prayer at your church or prayer conference. You may contact her at
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