Learn More About Ask A Prayer.

A new and exciting way for people to get involved with local prayer.

Ask A Prayer is simply the best product available for creating a responsive prayer community at the local church level.

The Administrator Account

The mainframe of Ask A Prayer is the administrator account where a church can customize the product to their specific prayer groups and style. There are various levels of control built into the admin account. For example, some administrators would like the ability to approve all prayers or message posts before they go out to their church prayer community while others would prefer to give their users the ability to post immediately. Both methods are easily setup in Ask A Prayer.

Receive Prayer Requests

Pray requests can go into the Ask A Prayer system through a variety of ways, one way would be using the prayer request link on your existing church website (we can easily help you set this up). Another way would be for the individual prayer partners to add their own prayers into their personal prayer partner account. Yet another way would be for the Administrator or Church Staff to enter received requests into Ask A Prayer and assign the requests to specific prayer groups within the church. Regardless of the many ways requests get into Ask A Prayer, you will be able to quickly and privately get the requests to people in your church who want to pray.

For more information on how to integrate your site with Ask A Prayer visit the Site Integration page here.

Prayer Partners

Invite prayer partners to join your church community with the invite tool built into the Ask A Prayer admin section or direct prayer partners to join through various print media and announcements at your church. It is very easy for anyone to sign up while also retaining group permission controls on the admin level. One of the best features about Ask A Prayer is that prayer partners manager their own contact information so you are not responsible for updating their account with the latest e-mail account or phone number.

Prayer Partner Prayerbox

The prayerbox serves as the main prayer request information area. Prayer partners can keep track of requests that were assigned specifically to them or to the group that they belong to. This replaces the traditional e-mail inbox with a place specifically dedicated to important prayers. It’s too easy for prayers to get lost in standard e-mail clients when they are mixed in with 30 other e-mails related to work projects, shopping offers and updates from family and friends. With Ask A Prayer you are able to provide a central location for all prayer requests at your church while also offering privacy to requesters who only want certain groups to see their prayers.

Easy To Use

We have made Ask A Prayer very use. One way we have done this is to build prompts into the system to let the user know they are on the right track. We also took into consideration that many churches are filled with passionate pray-ers who are not comfortable with using computers and with this people group in mind we have made Ask A Prayer a simple, enjoyable tool to use.

Message Posts

Post messages for all prayer partners. Keep everyone up to date on the latest announcements – prayer meetings, service projects, or important corporate prayer requests. If desired, the administrator account can apply extra security to the message posts by requiring approval before message is posted or can use the pass through setting in which all messages are immediately posted.

Group Creator

With Ask A Prayer you can create one prayer group or a hundred, it’s completely up to you. Each group will have prayer partners that will receive requests assigned to their group. For example, you may want to create a prayer group for your church prayer team, just invite your prayer team members to become prayer partners for this specific group and upon joining the group they will start receiving all requests assigned to the prayer team. You can create groups for staff, small groups, all church prayer partners, singles ministry, evangelical outreach, hospital visits, or any other custom group…it’s the backbone of Ask A Prayer, create the specific groups that your church needs.

How to launch Ask A Prayer at your church in 7 days or less

1. Sign up for a free 30 day trial account at www.askaprayer.com
2. Designate an administrator for Ask A Prayer – this person will have the option of approving and assigning prayer requests based on desired control of information.
3. Personalize Ask A Prayer for your church through group creation and privacy settings.
4. Connect your new Ask A Prayer prayerbox to your church website; most web developers can do this in 15 minutes or less using code we supply them. If your church does not have a web developer we can usually help out with this step.
5. Invite prayer partners to join prayer groups – quickly start off by sending e-mail invitations from the admin Ask A Prayer account.
6. In addition to recruiting prayer partners by e-mail we recommend a multi-faceted invitation campaign using information on your church website, announcements from the pastor, small group leaders and staff and utilizing any print media that your church has such as bulletins, flyers or posters. The goal is to get the word out to your church that you now have an easy, fun way for people to get involved with church prayer. (Never stop promoting a close knit prayer community)
7. After your groups are created and your prayer partners have joined, encourage everyone in your congregation to ask for prayer and to pray for others using Ask A Prayer to stay informed about the latest requests. Make it a daily habit to encourage prayer partners ask for request from their family, friends and co-workers….once you’ve reached this point, you will have a healthy, vibrant, praying community at your church.