New Website Reaches Out to Lift People in Prayer

OurPrayer.org Fills A Growing Need for Online Prayer and Community

Pawling, New York, February 2008 … The Outreach Division of Guideposts, with over 50 years experience interactively answering tens of thousands prayer requests weekly, is dynamically restructuring the online component of its prayer ministry by launching  OurPrayer.org,  the largest and most unique site online where people can pray for others.  Combining the attractiveness of a Niche Social Network with the benefits of high-quality highly relevant content and inspirational stories, plus proprietary functionality for direct prayer, prayer response, personalization, real time prayer and real time prayer groups, OurPrayer.org will be the premiere destination for online prayer and prayer community.

Lots of people have a favorite place to pray.  For some it may be a quiet room, or outdoors someplace beautiful and secluded, or maybe even in the car.  Increasingly, though, people pray online.  Peola Hicks, Prayer Department Manager, sees great potential for OurPrayer.org.  “The internet hasn’t really changed what people do, just how we do it.  It’s truly transformed the ability to reach out and connect with others around the world,” she said.   “It is our desire to inspire and unite the people visiting OurPrayer.org, and help them to enrich their prayer life.”

The most innovative and unique features of the new site put OurPrayer.org on a par with many of today’s most popular online destinations.  Using state-of-the-art social networking technology, there are simple, user-friendly tools to provide interactive functionality for individual interests and group activities.   Among the popular features incorporated for social networking are: Chat with video, IM with video, designing and setting up a Personal Prayer Space page, Group prayer, Photo sharing and Prayer Journals.  OurPrayer.org will also provide users with exclusive site content, downloadable content, more audio and video, devotionals, prayers, prayer tips, inspiring articles, a daily email and weekly e-newsletters for members and more.

OurPrayer.org will also be the hub for special prayer activities, such as our annual Good Friday Day of Prayer on March 21, 2008 and our Thanksgiving Day of Prayer events in the fall.

A key element of OurPrayer.org will be maintaining and enhancing the ability to take prayer requests with the unique commitment to pray by name and need for each individual request received. Anyone with a prayer request can go to www.OurPrayer.org

Everyone submitting prayer requests to the OurPrayer.org site will have a variety of options including: requests can be private (only OurPrayer trained volunteers will see and pray for it) or public (requests will go to the main prayer page for the general public to see and pray for).   Members will also have the ability to send prayer requests to friends and/or groups so they can pray for them, as well, and users requesting a personal prayer response will receive a personalized prayer sent directly back to them.  One of OurPrayer’s special features, real time prayer, provides the ability to have a one-on-one real time prayer session with one of our volunteers. 

Free to join and easy to use www.OurPrayer.org will be the place to meet others with similar interests and unite in prayer.

About Guideposts

Guideposts, a non-profit organization headquartered in Carmel, New York, was co-founded in 1945 by the husband and wife team of Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and Ruth Stafford Peale.  Dr. Peale’s landmark book, “The Power of Positive Thinking” is an all-time bestseller that has motivated and inspired millions around the world.  Guideposts is a trusted and forward-looking force for positive change, helping others by providing life-changing information, products, and services for all in need.  Guideposts is America’s pre-eminent publisher of inspirational books and magazines with annual book sales of over 6 million copies and a combined paid magazine circulation of over 4.3 million.  The flagship publication is Guideposts magazine, one of America’s top 15 largest monthly magazines with a circulation of 2.4 million and a readership of nearly 8 million.  Guideposts Outreach initiatives touch people around the world, meeting the needs of so many with the ability to make a difference in individual’s lives during difficult times.