The Unvieling

I'm really excited about the latest development at www.severnriverchurch.com. First I'd like to thank Drew Harrah our webmaster for volunteering in such a dedicated way working on our site. He has put in a ton of hours designing and maintaining our site, and those are hours that are never really seen by anyone. It's kind of one of those jobs that only gets recognized when something goes wrong. So on days like this I want to make sure to give props.

At the end of last year Matt and I started discussing a tool that we wanted added to the site. As we discussed it we became more and more enthused about it. We were asking, "What if there was a place that people could share their prayer needs with one another?" And even more important, "What if we could share how God had answered that prayer?" Thus the Prayer Page was born. We're not the first to come up with this idea. I just believe that we're going to use it more than the average church.

This is a page where worlds can collide. Imagine if Missionaries around the globe felt they had a place where they could actually enjoin people to pray for them. Imagine people that you know at work who talk to you about a need in their life, and what if you could take them to a website where they could ask people to pray for them. Imagine how your prayer life and daily time with God could have greater impact because you took the time to look at real time needs and pray for them. Imagine the joy of a community like Severn River Church that not only prays for needs but sees them answered, and posts the real world responses of people who have been healed. That's what the prayer page provides us.

In addition to being able to post requests and answered prayers, we'll soon have the capability to sign up for e-mail alerts regarding news from the prayer page. In the mean time I'd ask that you consider making the prayer page a daily stop to pray for friends, family, even people you've never met in their need of Jesus' touch.

It's very simple to use. From our homepage you can click in the Prayer Request box to navigate to the Prayer Page. From there click on the appropriate button and fill in the fields. Your request will be reviewed before it is posted, but it will appear at our earliest convenience.


--Ben