My home parish is on the edge of the Mississippi Delta. For thirty years, the parish has run a soup kitchen for the needy. It feeds about fifty people lunch five days a week. This outreach ministry has been a blessing to the entire community, and indeed is an ecumenical effort.
About six weeks ago, we started a drop-in prayer ministry once a week in the church next door. The manager of the soup kitchen announces that if anyone wishes to receive prayer, they can walk over. We also have drop-ins from our own congregation and the community. A sign announces the ministry. We use a prayer team of four people, all trained in healing prayer. The prayer requests are varied–for jobs, for family, for healing.
To my knowledge, in the thirty years that the soup kitchen has been in existence, no one has joined our church as a result of the ministry. In the six weeks since we’ve offered prayer, three people from the soup kitchen have said they wish to join. Thanks be to God.–JW
Drop-in prayer ministry
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