The Prayer Hub vision is to be a virtual House of Prayer - to Inform, Encourage, Educate, Equip and Connect Christians globally. The service will serve individuals, the Church, ministries, missions, organisations and prayer networks.
In particular, we aim to: Connect people in Prayer; Mobilise prayer for key ‘pillar’ issues, unreached people groups and the persecuted church; and be a virtual House of Prayer for all nations.
The Prayer Hub will be managed within each continent by trained teams, who will oversee the collation of their regional news & events listings, registrations, online moderating, research and networking.
As well as being a service to the free church, the Prayer Hub will have an 'ark of prayer' role to play in supporting the persecuted Church.
We are grateful to various individuals, trusts and organisations for their support to date for the Prayer Hub project which has enabled us to develop the project so far.
As well as the bedrock of prayer, the project depends on voluntary donations, subscriptions, legacies, and grants for its continued success.
If you are called to make a donation, please feel free to use the online service with debit/credit card or Paypal by clicking the link below. For information about leaving a legacy to Prayer Network UK, please contact us. Cheques should be payable to 'Prayer Network UK' and sent to Prayer Network UK / Crosswinds, P.O. Box 1041, Nailsea, North Somerset, BS48 4SD, United Kingdom.
Thank you for your support.
Please see our donations page here.
We have identified 4 key needs from praying people - They want...
- CONTROL - over what info is sent to them, how it is delivered and how much is sent - many already get too much!
- USER FRIENDLY - so they can easily find information relating to a specific subject, source or geographical area.
- HIGH INTEGRITY - reliable, up to date and trustworthy information and pointers to guide their prayers.
- CONNECTIONS - to find and be connected with like-minded people locally, nationally and internationally.
The prayer hub will provide individual personal users with:
- Prayer News with Prayer Pointers and links to more information from trusted sources
- Prayer Events Diary - local to national and international
- Database of Organisations - local to national and international.
- Links to the latest prayer resources
- Updates and notifications to smartphone / tablet, SMS, Email
- Integration of prayer reminders with Outlook / Google Calendar (via app)
- Search for information by subject or geographical area / proximity
- Connection to other people praying for the same needs
- Social bookmarking of public articles
Users will be able to access their accounts from anywhere in the world with an internet connection. Mobile phone users will have basic access via text.
The Prayer Hub will provide features that will be of use to organisations of all sizes and geographical spreads.
Our discussions with numerous Churches and ministries have identified 4 features that they would want:
- The ability to share prayer needs, news, events and information with a broad base of identified potential pray-ers/supporters - locally, nationally and (later) internationally.
- Fast and easy updating alongside any other social media channels.
- A managed social media style Like page without the vulnerabilities of the mainstream providers.
- Posts / articles can be shared across user type(s), geographical proximity and selected (default) countries.
There are 3 types of website user -
- Public / Site visitor - a casual user who does not register.
- Registered User - these are people who register and provide contact name, postcode (for geo-location purposes), optional mobile or landline phone number and email address.
- Prayer Team members - people who additionally provide full home address and a church leader reference contact detail. Once cleared, they become 'Prayer Partner' members.
Other features for organisations:
- A forum for publishing articles, information, events, and prayer related news.
- A banner advertising feature, shared with other subscribing organisations.
- A signup tool for obtaining email signups from visitors.
- Site usage and subscriber stats.
- Secure connections where appropriate.
- Site feed RSS syndication.
The vision is for this to be a service to the Christian community and every possible step will be taken to make the service accessible and affordable to everyone.
By all means, please do get in touch if you would like to get involved.
