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Where PrayerAsks came from, and what I have learned about carrying each other.

“What makes community building so complex is that it occurs in an infinite number of small steps.”

Peter Block, Community

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A list your community keeps, and the facilitator who keeps it

A list your community keeps, and the facilitator who keeps it

The facilitator's craft, Why we built this

One place for a community to share what it needs with the people willing to carry it, and one role, the Devotional Facilitator, for the person who ...

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When someone said they were praying for me

When someone said they were praying for me

Carrying each other, Why we built this

I have been through lonely seasons in my career. The people who told me they were praying for me had no job or money to offer. What they gave me ma...

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The friend I wish I had known about sooner

The friend I wish I had known about sooner

Carrying each other, Why we built this

I checked in with an old friend and learned he had been through a very hard year. Plenty of people in my community hold devotionals. None of them k...

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The prayer lists I kept as a young volunteer

The prayer lists I kept as a young volunteer

Why we built this

I kept prayer lists as a young volunteer near a spiritual center and treated them as work. They made me pay attention to people, and they got me ou...

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