A number of people at Annual Conference in San Diego asked for some specific help with Prayer Walking in relationship to conducting a Season of Listening.

Prayer walking is an excellent activity to help Listening Initiative congregations to prepare themselves. A Prayer Walk can help congregations to:

1. focus their attention upon the needs of their communities and neighborhoods.
2. discern spiritual strongholds in their communities, those spiritual forces that keep people from living in the freedom offered by the Commonwealth of God.
3. overcome their discomfort about engaging with the community and the people they meet along the way.
4. prepare a spiritual foundation for the listening activity they will conduct during the Season of Listening.

The following is an annotated listing of weblinks related to prayer walks. We make no recommendations for any of these resources, but suggest that you look at each of them carefully and then develop something of your own. Please share what you develop with us, so that we can begin to develop a guide that is specifically suited for Listening Initiatives.

The Prayer Walking Guide developed by the Zerma Team of the Southern Baptist Convention International Mission Board has a definite bias toward foreign mission Christian evangelism.

The Prayer Walk Guide is a publication of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, and takes an evangelical approach to prayer walking.

Prayer Walking is a concise webpage guide with suggested scriptures and practical suggestions. Like most of the other guides, it is evangelical in its approach.

Prayer Walking Guide, developed by Church Planting Village, is written specifically to help new church planters to pray their way into their communities.

UrbanMinistry.org, a website that has a variety of tools for various kinds of urban ministry, has developed a Prayer Walking Tool, a simple, straight-forward approach to prayer walking that lends itself well to social justice ministry and issues.