Community Prayer Practices Module Two

NATIONAL WORKING GROUP ON PRAYER

PrayingTogether Rhythms for Foster Care

MODULE TWO

Weekly Foster Care 15 Community Prayer Calls

Prayer is where we begin.

The needs of children and families are vast, and seeing these needs every day moves us to action. But our actions are utterly insufficient unless God multiplies them. Like the loaves and fish, we bring what little we have and trust Him to do what we cannot. Developed by the More Than Enough Community National Working Group on Prayer, this guide provides a simple framework to anchor our shared efforts in consistent, unified prayer. Adapt these practices to your local context, gather others, and ask God to do what only He can do.

The Weekly Foster Care 15 Community Prayer Call

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FORMAT

PURPOSE Weekly community prayer calls anchor our work on behalf of children and families, rallying local collaborators around a unified vision for more than enough. Carving out a 15-minute block each week to intercede together by name for those serving and those served ensures that our collaborative actions are not merely driven by strategy and tactics, but are rooted in the power and presence of God.

Virtual prayer gatherings can be held by video conference using Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Google Meet.

RHYTHM We recommend holding online community prayer gatherings weekly.

RECOMMENDED DURATION 15 Minutes

P R AY I N G T O G E T H E R : R H Y T H M S F O R F O S T E R C A R E

Weekly Foster Care 15 Community Prayer Calls YOUR TIME TOGETHER Prioritize prayer. While we love connecting with one another and talking about prayer requests, we don’t want these things to crowd out our time approaching God together in prayer. So after a brief introduction, we suggest going directly into prayer. At the end of the call, we encourage you to intentionally leave time to connect for anyone who would like to.

Participate as you like. On the calls, we encourage participation in prayer, but don’t require it. Invite people to actively participate by praying out loud if they are comfortable doing so. However, this is not required. Want to pray along silently? God is good with that, and so are we.

Encourage attendees to leave cameras on. Because we are not always able to be in person, we want to do everything we can to connect with one another. You can comb your hair if you want, but it is not required.

GETTING STARTED If you already host a Weekly Foster Care 15 Prayer Call we’d love to share your call information with others interested in joining you. Click here to submit your call details.

Explore the Full Series This guide is part of the Praying Together: Rhythms for Foster Care series, designed to equip you to pray with others for foster care.

Praying every day, every week and every month for foster care MODULE ONE | Daily 3:20 Prayer Pause MODULE TWO | Weekly Foster Care 15 Community Prayer Calls (Current) MODULE THREE | Monthly Online National Foster Care Prayer Call

Other rhythms and tools for teams and communities MODULE FOUR | Praying as a Team for Foster Care MODULE FIVE | Communitywide Foster Care Prayer Vigil MODULE SIX | Foster Care Prayer Liturgy MODULE SEVEN | Key Prayer Resources and Creative Elements

The More Than Enough National Working Group on Prayer is a collaborative group of leaders and advocates from churches, organizations, and agencies across the country, working together to help every community pray for vulnerable children and families and for those who care for them.