Who is Praying?

Are you eager to take your Alpha course to the next level?  Try increasing prayer support. One way to do this is to develop an Alpha Prayer Team—a group of people who are called specifically to pray for your course. We have found that prayer lies at the heart of the success of any Alpha course.  Here are some suggestions to help you start a prayer team.

Getting Started

Who is praying in your church already? Solicit prayer support from prayer groups in your church, midweek prayer meetings, the prayer chain or individual intercessors who can be kept informed by e-mail. Once people volunteer to pray, they need to know what to pray for.

Recruit someone with a heart for prayer to provide weekly prayer requests and praises for answered prayer as the course unfolds. This needs to be someone who is part of the course: a Leader or Helper who is willing to take on this extra assignment or a person called just to this task. The prayer “scribe” records requests and praises during the weekly course debriefing and passes them on to those who are praying for the course.

Members of your church who are praying for Alpha can pray at home, while driving to work or at family mealtimes.  Evangelism is a call for the whole church. When you celebrate lives transformed by Christ, the whole church will celebrate with you!

Ask God to give your church a heart for the lost. A famous quote by pastor Dutch Sheets says, “Evangelism without prayer is like a grenade with out a detonator; prayer without evangelism is like a detonator without a grenade.”  Prayer has a central role in courses that are seeing lives changed.