A private prayer request here is read by the Ordinary and by nobody else. Nothing reaches a public list, a prayer chain, or the Daily Offering unless you deliberately choose it. You may ask for prayer without believing in prayer, and you may ask without giving a name at all.
Stated plainly
Prayer chains are how information travels in a church, and people have been outed by one. A request passed on “so more people can pray” has cost people housing, custody, and jobs.
The rule here
Nothing you send goes on any public list unless you choose the second or third option below. Silence is not consent, and a blank form defaults to private.
On belief
You may ask for prayer without believing in prayer, and plenty of people do. Nobody will ask what you think is happening when the words are said.
Your request is read and prayed for by one person. It appears on no list, is spoken aloud nowhere, and is named to nobody. This is what happens if you choose nothing.
The defaultA first name — or any name you choose to give — is prayed for in the Daily Offering, which is published Monday to Saturday. No surname, no detail, no reason attached.
Your intention is prayed for with no name at all: “for one who asked.” The intention is carried publicly; you are not.
“Nobody should have to risk being outed in order to be prayed for.”
Pastora Tori Matthews, Ordinary and Chief Pastor
A private prayer request is read by the Ordinary, prayed for, and kept out of every published list. It is not forwarded to volunteers, not read aloud in a group, and not shared with any other Bloom program without your explicit consent.
If you choose the second or third option, only what that option permits is used — a first name, or nothing. The detail you wrote never travels with it.
Anonymous submission is entirely fine. Leave the name field empty, use an alias, or write from an address that says nothing about you. A request with no name attached is prayed for exactly like any other, and you can ask at any time for a request to be deleted.
Choose private, first name only, or anonymous. If you choose nothing, it stays private. A name is optional everywhere on this form.
A request with nothing identifying on it is prayed for exactly like every other one. Caution is not a lack of faith.
Nothing is saved to your name. Press Esc to close.
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