UPDATE AS "PRAISE'S PRAYER CHAIN" RESUMES OPERATION

In early November 2000, a prayer chain by e-mail began among several Christian Mudcatters and friends who had been asking each other to pray as individuals as needs arose. The prayer chain grew in number of recipients and requests for prayer throughout that month and was issued weekly or oftener as urgent prayer needs were submitted. I coordinated the messages and maintained the address list, until our housefire in early December, when another participant took over the list until I could get back up and running. (Since then "Praise" has had a name change to "WYSIWYG.")

The Prayer Chain is still very new and is still creating itself via input received from participants. Its existence evinces respect for Mudcatters who find Mudcat-posted prayer requests problematic, and it allows for prayerful regard of deeply personal prayer requests in an environment free of flames and rancor.

The prayer list also includes a prayer for the Mudcat Cafe and its leaders. Of course this prayer, like each prayer on the list, is entirely optional! Participants are expected to exercise mature responsibility in how they use and respond to the list-- there are no Prayer Chain Police forcing anyone to pray the words provided or for the situations described. Participants also are expected and asked to provide feedback to me about the conduct of the Prayer Chain. This includes thoughtful discussion toward consensus should anything about the prayer list be offensive to them in any way.

WANT THE FAQs? The current operating guidelines for the Prayer Chain are detailed in a four-page FAQs document available from me via e-mail. (If requested I will post the document here.)

The subjects covered by the current FAQs include:

Who participates?

Is this for Christians only?

How is the list used?

How are common experiences shared?

How does the Prayer Chain "fit" with Mudcat prayer threads?

Why not use Mudcat PM's?

How are addresses and security handled?

What about politics?

Are you serving any spam?

What's the bad news?

What's the good news?

What if it gets too big?

How does one join the prayer chain?


~Click HERE to e-mail me. Please use the word PRAYER in the subject line.

~Susan