Dear Virtual Prayer Community Members:
Not
surprisingly, studies indicate that the primary items researched on the Internet are
religion and prayer. Today more than ever, people yearn for spiritual
guidance. Even in an age of purported material wealth, people retain a void in their
lives when they lack a meaningful connection to God and community.
The
purpose of the Virtual Prayer Group is to harness the power of new technologies to permit
people to unite in prayer and the praise of God. It is an Internet Community
devoted to exploring, studying, and sharing issues of faith, religion, and prayer.
On this site, you will find many different avenues to meet your spiritual needs.
First, we welcome you to share your prayers with others, by sending beautiful e-prayer and
e-greeting cards to others for free. Just click onto the PrayerCard section of our
site and feel free to send cards to friends, family and colleagues as you wish.
This
site also will permit group prayer through weekly Cyber Seminars. As technology
grows, access to a Virtual Congregation will develop for homebound people and people who
want to pray together with others from far-reaching locations. No longer will
physical confines limit the power to share in a weekly prayer service.
Next,
we offer a Virtual PrayerBank™. This is a place in which you may “deposit”
your prayers. You may find it comforting to write prayers down, to help you make
something intangible more real. Sometimes, you may have prayers that you wish
to express online in order to share your love of God, or to release the pain or sorrow you
feel. The PrayerBank™ also creates a place to store them for a time of need, to
allow you to reflect on your feelings, or to permit others to share the prayers left for
them in the PrayerBank™.
Not everyone has ready access to the Internet, or can log on whenever the time to pray arises. Therefore, we have created physical PrayerBanks™. These are beautifully created deposit boxes, with religious themes, for personal use, and for use as gifts; they are also terrific fundraisers.
The
little children in my family keep their PrayerBanks™ at their bedsides, next to a
notepad. Whenever they feel a need to express a fear, to praise God, to pray for the
health of a loved one, or to make a special request that they do not wish to utter aloud,
I encourage them to write their prayers and thoughts on the notepad and deposit it in
their PrayerBanks™. This way, I teach them the value of prayer, of
expression, of turning to God in times of need.
I
also use the PrayerBank™ as a method of teaching children the value of charity and
sharing with community. Rather than focusing on toys, fashion, and entertainment,
children should be taught the enduring values of faith, commitment and community.
The gift of giving is much more powerful than any material gift. Therefore, I try to
teach the children in my family to pray for others, and to help others by giving them
gifts of meaning and spiritual value. Also, depositing a penny each day in a
bank adds up quickly, and the entire PrayerBank™ can be donating as a gift of love to a
person or group in need.
In conclusion, I welcome you to join in the Virtual Prayer Community that I have established on this web site. May God bless you on your journey through life, and may we, in some way, help you on that journey. Thank you for allowing us to share in your life.
With warm greetings of welcome,
Steve
House of Worship
Without Walls
Attend Services with
Distant Relatives