Pray For The Hostages To Host BTR Program

Beginning on Monday, November 3rd at 12 noon eastern time, we will be hosting a daily time of prayer for hostages on Blog Talk Radio. The daily 15 minute online segment will focus on reading the names we have of those held hostage, followed by any announcements of new hostages or updates on current situations, and then a time of prayer.

Also, on Saturday's beginning on November 8th, we will have a full one hour show that will go further in depth on our topic, include special guests, and have a time of training on the importance and power of prayer.

The link to listen to the show live, contribute to the chat room, or to find any of the archives of all shows is: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Pray-4-the-Hostages

The listener dial-in number is (646) 200-3329. If you are unable to listen online, you can call in and listen or be a participant in the show.

We are looking forward to having our prayers answered and news of victory in this battle against evil.

Earthly Road, Heavenly Walk

Please join Wyatt and I for an evening prayer service podcast on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday nights. Earthly Road, Heavenly Walk is about 35 minutes long and features Scripture readings, a brief sermon, prayer requests, and a variety of well-loved hymns. We hope this service will be a blessing to all our listeners. Hope to see you there!

Update on Prayer Schedule

I am taking the liberty to reprint Pastor Ed's comment on a post below so that everyone can be sure to see it. He is speaking about the sign-ups for prayer times on the group calendar:

It looks like we have about 6 slot per day taken. 25% of the way there! 6 more and we will be half way to our goal....

....we can do it, I know we can!

Pastor Ed

As Pastor Ed notes in his introductory post below, signing up for an hour does not mean that you have to pray for the entire hour. Instead, it is a way of seeing that prayer is continually being lifted to Heaven every hour of the day on behalf of the hostages for whom we are praying.

Thank you so much for your support in this effort!

Let Me Introduce Myself

Hello everyone - My name is Pastor Ed Boston, aka Cyber Pastor, and I'm honored to be the Chaplain for Pray for the Hostages. I've wanted to write this post for over a week now, but my laptop has been/is being worked on so it has had to wait.

When Vicki asked if I would serve along with her, Matt, and Wyatt, I was excited to be a part of such a fine group of people, but told her I would like a few days to pray about taking on another commitment.

I pastor a small church in south central Indiana, am the campus Chaplain for the Adult Services branch of an extension site of a Christian University, the Chaplain for the local police department, on-call Chaplain once a month at the closest hospital, I am an Ambassador for the Presidential Prayer Team, blog regularly, and my wife and I host a Blog Talk Radio program each Monday through Friday night.

Now you see why I wanted to pray about another commitment.

However, when praying I kept thinking about what a need there is for "Prayer for the Hostages". Vicki didn't know it, but she had hit my soft spot and that is prayer. I knew I had to join forces with this group.

Right now, I'm working on a training session for those who are part of this group and want to participate. For now, I would suggest a couple of things that maybe you are already doing but if not, please consider it.

1) Take a time-slot to commit a specific time where you will pray for those who this group was founded to pray for. You don't have to pray for an entire hour, but wouldn't it be awesome to fill up every time slot 24-hours a day, every day of the year.

2) Utilize the list of the hostages, and pray for each person - by name - at least one time a week, more if you can. It doesn't have to be a specific time, and no one has to know you are doing it but God and yourself.

Please let me know if there is any way I can help you personally. You can contact me at pastoredboston@sbcglobal.net .

May God Bless you, and may He especially be with each person we are praying for!

Pastor Ed

Welcome to Our Contributing Authors!

We have been blessed by having a great team of writers and prayer warriors join this effort. In addition to my two founding co-bloggers, Wyatt McIntyre and Matt Cochran, we have been joined by Cyberpastor, LadyL, and Claudia. Thank you so much to these colleagues for their help and encouragement!

If you are interested in becoming a contributing author, or if you have a prayer request or story idea, please contact us at prayforthehostages@gmail.com.

Pray for the Hostages Banner Available!

Here is a banner you can add to your website to help promote this group. Thank you so much to Wyatt McIntyre for this beautiful artwork.

Prayer of the Day 9/20/08

Today's verse: Psalm 31:2

Turn your ear to me, come quickly to my rescue; be my rock of refuge, a strong fortress to save me.

Let us pray:

Lord God, you have come to protect the helpless, defend the oppressed, and to set the captives free. We lift up these hostages to your care: defend them, protect them, and in your time rescue them from their captors. Give them strength to endure their ordeal, and give them a sense of peace that can only come from you. Comfort their families and loved ones, and give them perseverance and hope until the day when they are blessedly reunited. All this we ask in your holy Name. Amen.

Prayer Schedule

The Google calendar in the sidebar shows the prayer times that have been signed up for so far in the Facebook group. We would love to see every time slot filled. If you would like to pick a time, please email us at prayforthehostages@gmail.com, leave a post at the Facebook group page, or message me at my Facebook account. Thanks!

Circle of Prayer

Join our Circle of Prayer at the American Bible Society.

Welcome to Pray for the Hostages

Welcome! This blog is intended to serve as a resource and activity center for the Pray for the Hostages group. Here you will find links to online prayer sites, opportunities to participate in individual or group activities, and Bible study resources. Over the next few weeks we will be launching a number of projects that I hope everyone will consider taking part in.

If you are on Facebook, please check out our Pray for the Hostages group there. For the latest news, updates and background information on the hostages and hostage-related issues, please visit my blog Not Ready for my Burqua.

Thank you for your support. We have a big job ahead of us, but with God anything is possible. Let's pray until all the hostages are home.