• Set up a mobile cabinet on wheels that can be moved from place to place for prayer times. Your cabinet should contain supplies such as prayer request forms, prayer guides, pens, breath mints, CDs and a portable CD player. It could also contain 3-ring binders by topic with information on various ministries in your church, community and global concerns. A journal logging requests and answered prayers and a church directory would be other nice touches.
• Use a Sunday school room that is empty most of the week for your alternative prayer space. Make sure you install cabinets for your prayer paraphernalia that can be closed away when needed. You might want to consider using an adult or older youth classroom so that tiny hands don’t find their way into your resources. If permitted, find inviting ways to decorate the walls that will encourage people to pray—who knows, you may pick up some new intercessors from the group that shares this space with you!
• Some churches use their sanctuaries as prayer rooms. Not only does it meet the need when another dedicated space is not available, it also keeps prayer on the mind of your congregation. Consider setting up “prayer stations” around the perimeter of the sanctuary with visual prayer reminders at each one. Some churches include maps and globes, pictures of the president and government buildings, missionary photos, bulletin boards for posting requests and answers, etc. Make sure your prayer stations are visually appealing and kept tidy and up-to-date. One church had a TV for training videos and equipment for playing tapes and CDs on a mobile cart that could be moved out of the sanctuary during services.

Watch for an opportunity! When any new building plans are being discussed, use this as a chance to approach your leadership team with a proposal for a new prayer room.

We highly recommend the book Creative Prayer Stations if you are interested in developing prayer stations. It provides a many suggestions.