10 X 10 ideas for Prayers and Congregational Praying

Pray in different ways each week. Have folks hold hands, pray an individual prayer out loud at the same time, pray in pairs during the service...etc.

Build a prayer wall (out of insulation board, bricks, blocks, whatever you have at your disposal) Give folks a slip of paper each week as they walk in. Let them write down their prayer during the service, and then walk it and place it into the wall during the offering.

Hold a 28 day prayer vigil for the month of February 2016. Invite people to sponsor a day of prayer. Make a large calendar that they can "sign up" on. Ask them to pray for the church, the pastor and the community on that day. If possible, give them a list of names of each person in the church and let them pray for each person by name that day.

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