About: The Prayer Care Ministry

By: Deacon-in-Waiting Gwen Miller

The Prayer ministry began from the spiritual prompting of Lisa Canellas, who desired to incorporate individual prayer time into Trinity’s worship service. Along with Lily Sage Mathias and Lynne Enman, these women open an opportunity for Trinity to provide on-site prayer sessions for its congregation.

During my Diaconate Internship, my vision was to increase our reach beyond the Sunday worship to include a focus on “care” to address various needs to uplift others during challenging times. We provide monthly outreach by sending personalized notes to keep the connection between those who, for various reasons, can not attend worship.

We offer a weekly Monday evening prayer call-in line, Blessings and Brunch, which is a dial-in fellowship gathering held on the last Saturday of the month, and we now have a dedicated area on the church’s website for online prayer requests.

The wellness of the Prayer-Care Partners is crucial. We come together in one accord to nurture, support, and pray for one another. Our time together is to renew our hearts and minds to go forward strengthen to serve.

This Ministry of Prayer is centered around Ephesians 6:18 “and pray in the Spirit for all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests, with this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.” The Prayer-Care ministry, as individual disciples of Christ, are diligent in our awareness of the prayer concerns of those we pray for and are vigilant in addressing the needs of God’s people; whether they are among our congregation, within our families, our circle of friends, our colleagues and most importantly, the stranger within our midst.