We began our evening of prayer with Pastor Doug encouraging us in corporate prayer and also challenging individuals to lead out in conversational sentence prayers. Our focus at this gathering was prayer for Children’s Ministries at PORTICO.

Pastor Saundra directed the rest of our prayer time and divided the time remaining up into four segments:

• We began by praying in small groups of five or so for parents. The focus of our prayer was on healthy marriages, being good examples, wisdom, strength and provision for single parents, spiritual leadership in the home.
• For next ten minutes, we prayed corporately for our children, with many leading out that our kids would experience God and the power of the Holy Spirit. We also prayed for health, safety, sense of purpose and God’s call on kid’s lives, and that we would see our kids become true worshipers.
• Pastor Saundra then had anyone who was a leader in Children’s Ministry at PORTICO, teachers in the school system, daycare workers, anyone who worked with kids, come forward for prayer and together we laid hands on them and prayed over them for discernment, wisdom, the love of Christ and the power and anointing of the Spirit in their lives as they served children.
• We concluded the evening by joining hands in a large circle around the perimeter of the chapel with many leading out in prayer as the Spirit directed.

These have been powerful times of prayer and we are thankful for the many who are coming. Friday is the last night of our Week of Prayer and we encourage you to join us at 7:00 pm in the Chapel as we focus on missions.