We hope you are finding this series of articles about prayer on Church Growth Consulting helpful.  A designated place for prayer is another way of demonstrating the importance of a Prayer Ministry. Churches routinely have rooms for children, youth, fellowship, etc. It makes sense to have a Prayer Room as well. The prayer room needs to be comfortable and allow for not only sitting, but also for kneeling and even for times of being prostrate on the floor.

The prayer room should be set up to be informative as well. A bulletin board with the latest prayer requests posted is a good way to keep prayer focused. It is sometimes helpful to provide soft background music. You may want to consider adding some computer terminals hooked to the Internet to provide a world perspective for prayer. There is a great prayer site located at www.worldprayerteam.org that provides current worldwide prayer requests and even offers free online prayer journals. Establishing a prayer room and talking about it from the pulpit will help to gain people’s interest in participating in the prayer ministry.