prayingforchange.com is a new prayer initiative to equip people to pray intelligently for issues of justice and compassion. Together we want to seek our God of justice and ask for mercy, for light instead of darkness, for hope instead of despair in the relationships and places that are in need.

The central idea is to provide prayer requests form the frontline so that people can ‘present their requests to God’. We understand that prayer is about more than just a list of things that we bring to God. However, we believe that as part of our relationship with God we should pray specifically and appropriately about the needs of His people, the world and His mission.

The idea is for a simple website that is organized by easy to search topics to enable anyone to pray for a particular issue, or region and to allow for a prayer network to respond to urgent prayer requests.

We hope to launch this new website in June 2010 and we would love you to join with us and be part of this prayer network.

This is a free service and only requires the time it takes to share your prayer needs

So here’s how you can be involved:

• Join with us by becoming a prayer partner whereby either you share your prayer needs with others through a simple process or permit us to feature your prayer items.
• Join with us in this prayer initiative and help us spread the news about this new prayer initiative by putting a link to prayingforchange.com on your website.

Here’s how you can respond:

1. Yes definitely count us in! Send us more details about how our prayer materials can be used to inspire prayer.
2. Maybe at a later stage. Please keep us updated with how things are going.
3. No thanks. God bless you in your work.

For those who respond with yes or maybe the next steps will be to work out how this can technically fit together.

Please do email sara.kandiah@tearfund.org with the contact details of the right person to contact for more prayer information.

We would value hearing back from each of you by Tuesday 18th May 2010 as this gives us time to co-ordinate the prayer news before our launch in June.

We look forward to hearing from you.

David Westlake and Sara Kandiah
Tearfund UK.

www.prayingforchange.com