If I had a dime for every time I heard someone in ministry say that they did not pray as much as they thought they should, I’d be doing ministry in the Caribbean somewhere or maybe a cruise minister. Permanent vacationing aside, most of us really do want to pray more. My bet is that you feel you’d do it more if you just had something like, say, a text message to jog your memory.
That is exactly what Echo Prayer Manager does: it reminds you to pray via email or SMS. After signing up for the free account, you enter your prayer requests choosing how you want to recieve the reminder (email or SMS) and how often (more, normal, less, or non-random). Then you go over to the reminders area and decide when is the best time in each day for you to be reminded to pray.
Here’s the genius thing, unless you tell it otherwise, it reminds you of a random prayer request from your list at that time! Of course you can ask it to remind you to pray for your friend at the exact moment he is getting his appendix removed, but the real genius is that once you decide when you want to remember to pray, you don’t have to also decide which prayers to pray at which moment.
There’s also a prayer journal where you can keep more detailed info on the prayers. The only thing I wish it did was have some group option to be able to use it to remind a whole prayer group and an iPhone app for adding new requests, but there’s always future updates to look forward to. Check it out at www.echoprayer.com And, let me know see any cruise ministry openings!
Hi – I know this blog post is from 4 years ago, but I just wanted to share with you and your readers that we’re about to launch a new version of Echo Prayer!
It’s a free iPhone app with the same mission as the website – to help people organize their prayer lives and pray more effectively.
It will come out on June 10th, and you can get it or read more about it here: https://new.echoprayer.com
(If you’d like a pre-release version of it to try now, let me know!)