How to Help Your Congregation Pray for Missions

Make prayer the missions priority for your missions team and your congregation.

  • Set a personal example by praying for one or more missionaries daily.
  • Set a team example by praying first in every missions team meeting.
  • Program prayer in every missions activity.
  • Include prayer for missions and missionaries in every corporate prayer meeting.

Recognize that people are motivated to pray for people they love.

  • Develop personal prayer for missionaries based on relationships.
  • Set a goal for the number of people who will commit to pray for a missionary.
  • Use the missions conference to inspire individuals to pray for a missionary.
  • Ask individuals to commit to pray faithfully for one year for a specific missionary.
  • Ask them to write the name of the missionary on the conference commitment card.
  • Provide the names of those who sign up to the missionaries they will pray for.
  • Ask the missionaries to send their prayer letters to those individuals.
  • Remind the individuals of the commitment they made.
  • Renew prayer sign-ups annually.

Facilitate ongoing relationship development

  • Encourage the missionaries and prayer partners to develop relationships.
  • When your missionaries visit your church, facilitate their meeting with their prayer partners.
  • Communicate success stories.

Pray corporately for the world, countries and people groups.

  • Use attractive resources such as You Can Change the World.
  • Participate in the Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church and other special prayer events.
  • Personalize where possible by identifying countries and peoples with missionaries you support.

More Suggestions

  • Pray for workers from other people groups in the same country.
  • Pray for missionaries from other countries.
  • Pray for any existing churches in the country to reach them.
  • Pray for God to prepare hearts to receive His messengers and message.
  • Pray that God will bind the strong man of the house.
  • Pray that new believers will make a complete break with heathen practices.
  • Pray that an evangelizing, reproducing church will be planted.
  • Pray that Christ will soon possess the inheritance that is His.
  • Pray that the people will soon be represented along with all the other nations in the Body of Christ.
  • Keep praying for the nations according to the will of God.