. . . the ministry of prayer needs advocates!

Most congregations and pastors and church leaders approve of prayer but few take the responsibility to advance the presence and practice of prayer.

Church prayer leaders, often humbled by the call of God and a Holy Spirit endowed burden for intercession, tend to operate in a responsive rather than proactive manner.

If the ministry of prayer is to pervade and saturated your congregation, it requires someone who is passionate and persistent.

Passionate: A leader who is not afraid to express a deep hunger for God when he or she prays or to shed tears over the lost or to raise his or her voice for the advance of the kingdom of God.

Persistent: A leader who speaks up for prayer before (“Could we include a prayer segment in the event?”), during (“Let’s stop and ask the Lord to guide us as we . . .”), and after (“Before we head home, may I pray for that need you talked about during group time?”).
Certainly I am not encouraging you to be pushy, unkind or a pharisaical pain-in-the-neck! An advocate must be firm and consistent in his or her support of prayer, not for his or her own agenda but as one who reminds the church of the agenda of our Savior and the Scripture.
Just as Paul urged Timothy to make prayer a priority throughout the church of Ephesus (1 Timothy 2:1), we too must appropriately but continually ask the question that reminds the church of the responsibility to become a house of prayer.

It seems to me . . . your church needs a prayer leader to remind it to pray all the time.
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P.S.  Do you know of an hymn with lyrics sung directly to the Lord? Praise? Thanks? Petition? Intercession? E-mail the title of the song so we can add it to the list of hymns suitable for concerts of prayer.