Our first test-drive of our new eMentoring tool resulted in a lot of great ministry as well as many lessons learned. On Dec 23, we sent a “Merry Christmas” email to our entire ministry email list of about 170,000. Included in the email was an offer to pray for any prayer requests. Submitted requests were routed to members of our staff who had volunteered to pray for the requests.
Instead of simply praying for the requests, though, our staff took the time to write out their requests and email those back to the one making the request. It was powerful ministry! Nearly 500 requests were received and answered within about a 48 hour period. Many of them were touched with the prayers they received and responded to say thanks. Here was one such response:
Thank you for taking the time to pray for H____ and I. I appreciate your words and thoughtfulness. I will find a copy of the book you suggested. Through this separation, I’ve tried to be very receptive to what God wants me to learn and to make changes in me- really the only thing I can do at this point besides prayer. I wrote your prayer out on a note card yesterday and kept it with me and prayed on it throughout the day. I believe prayer has kept my husband from filing any legal action and although he isn’t completely “on board” with communication; he has made some effort for response.
I believe our union was God-ordained and that two Christian people that put God in the center should be able to find their way through their marriage.Again, thank you. I hope that my husband and I can register for a Family Life conference soon together.
We’re now going to review what we learned and determine the next steps, including launching an ongoing prayer ministry like this. Please continue to keep our eMentoring outreach in your prayers as we continue to seek to reach out to our ministry friends one-to-one.
