The Prayer Chain is an important part of our church ministry.  It began in 1976 and continues to this day.

If you or someone you know has a need for prayer, please complete a Prayer Request listed in the Bulletin or Email your request to:  wpresbyterian1@tampabay.rr.com so the person can be added to the Prayer Chain.  In an emergency, please call the Church office.

Names will remain on the chain for three months unless we have a "Praise the Lord" and then it will be removed.  Requests for salvation will remain on the chain for five years.  Requests for prayers for cancer and other life-threatening diseases will remain on the chain indefinitely.  God is good and He hears our prayers.

"I will exalt you, my God and King; I will praise your name for ever and ever.  Every day I will praise you and extol your name for ever and ever." Ps. 145:1-2

Prayer Room and Prayer Support Group

The creator of the Room for Prayer and Woodlawn’s volunteer Ministry Associate is Rev. Dr. Carolyn Olds Mikels, who participates actively in the life of the church November – April (the other half of the year she lives and serves in Maine). The Room for Prayer itself has been set aside as a hallowed place for individual and group prayer and contemplation, solitude and meditation, reading and reflection. It is open when the church is open, and houses Carolyn’s reference library of books, files, and periodicals relating to spiritual formation and discipleship. Carolyn draws on resources tailor-made to the individual’s spiritual interests at the point of their need.

Highlighted here are two of Carolyn’s Making Room for Prayer offerings:

• Lectio Divina - the time-honored practice of “praying the scriptures” - on Wednesday evenings at 6:30 p.m. This practice deepens our friendship with the Spirit of God in Christ through meditative engagement with the Word. Scriptures are chosen from those for the up-coming Sunday worship service.

• Spiritual Direction - Spiritual direction began in the early centuries of Christianity as a way to encourage and model being “directed” by “listening” to the “wee small voice of God” within and about one, supported by related spiritual practices within the context of maturing in discipleship. To learn more about spiritual direction and to explore entering into a relationship with Carolyn for spiritual companioning, please contact the church office.

To learn more about these opportunities, please contact the church office where your inquiry will be directed to Carolyn. You may also pick up brochures in Fellowship Hall on the literature table about the Room for Prayer, Lectio Divina, and Centering Prayer.