Prayer requests
How members share prayer requests, how the leadership team reviews them, and how requests are renewed, answered or taken down.
Who does thisMembers; leadership or webmaster to review
Members can ask the church to pray for them. Each request is checked before anyone else sees it. Once approved, it appears for the church to pray over.
Sharing a request (members)
- Open Prayer (or Daily) and find Your requests.
- Tap Share a prayer request.
- Write a Request title and the Prayer request, then tap Submit for review.
- Your request shows Waiting for office review until it is approved.
When it’s approved, your name appears with your request. Only share another person’s private details with their permission.
Requests show for 30 days. Near the end, a Renew for 30 days button appears. Tap Mark answered to share it as a praise for one week. Tap Take down to remove it.
Praying for others
Under Pray for one another, tap I prayed as you pray for each request. The person who shared it can see how many people prayed.
Reviewing requests (leadership)
Reviewing is for the leadership team (or whatever your church calls it) and the webmaster.
- Open Administration → Prayer requests.
- Show requests starts on Needs review. Each request shows who sent it and when.
- Tap Approve for members, then Confirm approval. Before you do, make sure the person is happy for these details to be shared.
- Or tap Archive, then Confirm archive, to keep it from members. Archiving doesn’t delete it.
- To find a request again, switch Show requests to Approved or Archived. An archived request can be sent back with Return to review.
No emails or texts are sent. Members who turned on phone alerts get a short notice when a request is approved. It never shows names or details. See Phone alerts.
Praise & thanks
On Daily, members can also write what they’re thankful for. Shared praises show to members for 14 days with the writer’s first name and last initial. The leadership team and the webmaster can hide a shared praise if needed.
If something goes wrong
- “Ask the church to link your directory record before submitting a prayer request.” Your login isn’t linked to your directory record yet. Ask the church office. See Approve sign-ins.
- A request isn’t showing to the church. It may still be waiting for review, or it may have expired after 30 days. Renew it from Your requests.
- “This request changed or your access changed.” Tap Reload requests and try again.
- Submitter shows “Name unavailable.” Contact the church office to check that person’s directory link.