EXPLORE GOD CHICAGO PRAYER STRATEGIES • Your Church Team (Pastor, Coordinators)

EXPLORE GOD CHICAGO PRAYER STRATEGIES 

Explore God Chicago ~ Your Church Team

• Pastor – build a prayer support team for your sermon/message preparation and presentation/preaching by recruiting trusted intercessors … devote a minute every weekend/service to corporately pray the “Everyday • Everywhere • Everyone” prayer … insert stories (testimonies) of members who are praying, inviting, friends and cowokers

• Church/Ministry Coordinator – post prayer prompts in Sunday/weekend bulletins, promo slides & newsletters … request an Explore God Chicago prayer minute that involves everyone present … use social media to inspire your members … schedule a “Everyone • Everyday • Everywhere” Sunday when everyone commits to pray daily and walks to the wall and writes the names of the people they are praying for on a mural/max-size post-it-note

• Group Coordinator – convene the inviting members of each group to a weekly 20 minute pray-call for those they have invited/will invite

• Children’s Directors – equip participants to list the names of friends and students they will pray for (evening/weekly) … equip parents for table-prayer in their home

• Youth Directors – involve students in leading prayer … connect them on social media

• Prayer Mobilizer – passionately pursue prayer commitments from every family, every ministry, every group activity … offer a variety of prayer connections (phone chain, email blast, before church prayer huddle, social media, form a group for your church on Pray.Network (free)

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Prepared by Phil Miglioratti, Explore God Chicago Co-Chairman

Pray.Network Founder • Prayer Consultant, Illinois Baptist Churches • Mission America Coalition Cities