“We have a prayer chain for grieving families.”
“Let us pray and show our solidarity with our brothers and sisters…”
“We do not stop praying for those prayer requests entrusted to us.”
These are the kinds of messages you send in response to the urgent calls to prayer and the pastoral letters that Mennonite World Conference shares with the global family.
“Intercessory prayer is a real and active force that unites us as believers; it is a tool that knows no boundaries or distances. In the midst of our powerlessness, prayer shows us that God always listens, bringing us comfort, peace and hope,” says Mary Cano, member of the Deacons Commission.
“The importance of praying for one another appears in Philemon 1:22: ‘for I am hoping through your prayers to be restored to you’. It means that our individual burdens become the purview of the community. So, to pray for one another multiplies the voices that cry out during affliction and bring joy as soon as God shows mercy (paraphrase of 2 Corinthians 1:11).” she says.
To bring us together to pray for each other, starting at Pentecost 2026, MWC is producing a monthly prayer card. These postcards feature a prayer point from our member churches in new country each month.
You can print out the cards from our website. You may use them as a bookmark in your Bible, post them on the wall in your house, give them to a friend as an encouragement to prayer or add to your Christmas decorations.
In your church building, a congregations may designate space on a wall or table to display each of the prayer cards and remind members to pray.
In addition to using the prayer cards, you can live out unity through MWC by subscribing to our bimonthly Prayer Network letter and by joining online prayer hour.
“We are grateful for your heartfelt responses to our urgent calls to prayer and our pastoral letters to the Mennonite World Conference family,” says Henk Stenvers, MWC president. “Prayer forges an important bond between our members around the world. It unifies us in the bond of Christ. It is a way of demonstrating our solidarity with each other and it moves us to action in response to God’s Spirit.”
Have you been encouraged by the prayers of the global family? Tell us about it.
Do you have a testimony to share about the power of prayer for your community?