One body, one voice: the unique purpose of corporate prayer

Units of prayer combined, like drops of water, make an ocean which defies resistance!” writes 19th-century devotional writer E.M. Bounds. Indeed, revival history abounds with astounding testimonies of the power of corporate prayer to bring the dynamic and redeeming presence of God into our world.

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“We want this to lead to evangelism and outreach,” says Women Alive’s Margaret Gibb.

When Karen Braun was 10 years old and living in Regina, her family and church were caught up in the revival that swept across the Prairies in the early 1970s. It was during that tumultuous time, she recalls, that God gave her a vision of a map of Canada.“I saw a flame that began in the centre of that map begin to engulf the map. I understood instinctively that what I was seeing God do [was] revival, transforming people’s lives [and] what I knew He wanted to do for our nation,” says Braun, who now directs Mothers Who Care, a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ.

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Rob and Fran Parker are the unlikely impetus behind a vision to establish a Christian presence in the nation’s capital dedicated to praying for government. And now their dreams are coming true

A decade ago, Rob was pastor of a Baptist church in Vernon, B.C. when “God put on our heart a need to increase prayer.” The couple took that message to heart personally and professionally. Within a year their entire church was keenly involved in a major prayer emphasis. “It became front and centre of everything we did,” says Rob.

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