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Covering Columbus in 24/7 Prayer

PRAYER CANOPY

The For Columbus Prayer Canopy is a unified movement across diverse congregations and houses of prayer to saturate our city in 24/7 prayer, worship, and fasting. Hour after hour, Intercessors will lock arms together contending for God’s Kingdom to come and His will to be done here on earth as it is in heaven. We will together exalt and enjoy Jesus as we build an altar of worship and prayer over our city and lift up the many needs our communities face. 

Help Cover Columbus in 24/7 Prayer

Choose the pathway that best fits you, your church, or your organization.

Public Prayer Gatherings

For Churches, Houses of Prayer, and Individuals: Discover recurring public prayer gatherings across Columbus or add your church's recurring public prayer gathering.

Adopt a Day

For Churches and Organizations: Strengthen your culture of prayer by adopting a recurring day. Invite your congregation or team to pray for your church or organization, your community, and our city. Whether you cover 4 hours or 24 hours, every hour helps strengthen the 24/7 Prayer Canopy.

Adopt an Hour

For Individuals: Commit to one recurring day and hour each week to pray for Columbus from wherever you are. Together, we're building a culture of prayer across our city.

for churches

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Step One: Choose a Prayer Coordinator 

Prayerfully discuss a qualified candidate to oversee your participation in the 24/7 canopy with your team. Have your prayer coordinator email Shawna Shepherd at shawna@forcolumbus.org to communicate hours covered each month as well as prayer requests and praise reports.

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Step Two: Choose Your "Day to Pray" 

Choose which day of the week and week number you plan to cover each month and sign up here. The commitment is expected to last for one year. For example: First Monday of the month, or Fourth Friday of each month, etc.

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Step Three: Choose How 

You and your prayer coordinator can decide how to fill your hours and how to manage sign ups. Your church can be a host site for the entire watch or you can encourage corporate prayer in groups or individuals in their prayer closets covering one half hour or hour at a time. 

prayer coordinator role

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With the help of the Pray for Columbus Director, prayer coordinators oversee the "day to pray" prayer commitment for their church. They decide how the signups* and hours will be filled as well as help facilitate communication with participants (monthly prayer guides, answered prayers, prayer requests etc.).

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Prayer coordinators will be supported and encouraged with training and a vibrant community of other prayer leaders in the trenches with them. This community will gather quarterly to encourage one another with fellowship and equipping to continue fueling the fire for 24/7 prayer.

*The For Columbus SignUpGenius account will be made available for coordinators to use if desired to fully automate sign ups and communication.

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Email Shawna Shepherd, Director of Pray for Columbus to register as a prayer coordinator: shawna@forcolumbus.org

prayer resources

Our hearts’ desire is to experience God’s transforming presence in our lives and see His shalom come to our city. Pray for Columbus is a diverse network of Christ followers that has been stewarding a citywide prayer calendar, monthly prayer guides, yearly corporate fasts, and citywide prayer and worship gatherings since 2014. 

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