Pray Ottawa
Bringing together prayer leaders to mobilize focused and sustained prayer
Prayer Is Powerful When We Come Together In Unity
Leading prayer can be challenging and lonely without like-minded peers who share their burden to see God move powerfully.
Pray Ottawa brings current and potential prayer leaders together to intercede, stay informed, and ensure that our city is saturated in prayer.
Saturate Our City In Prayer
We catalyze Ottawa’s prayer leaders through gathering, training, and keeping you informed
Prayer Point Newsletter
Every week Pray Ottawa shares a brief “Prayer Point” about a specific topic in our region. Through this simple weekly practice, we have the opportunity to pray as a city, in a coordinated way, for the efforts, challenges and well-being of the people who live here.
Prayer Gatherings & Events
We organize and assist prayer rallies and gatherings across our city throughout the year.
Prayer Mobilization
We are closely twinned with Love Ottawa and our small team serves as a hub to link you with other prayer leaders. Why? Because we feel prayer is more effective when we pray collaboratively.
Training & Resources
We coach and equip people in prayer, including prayer leaders, pastors, and people who want to grow.
Upcoming Events
Join With Other Believers in Praying for and Serving the City of Ottawa
What Might Be Possible with God’s Help
A Letter from Sarah Jackson
Friends, we have a God who hears and answers prayer. It is a privilege to know Him and to be known by Him. And, together, we can intercede for our city in powerful ways. If you are passionate about prayer, I invite you to become involved with Pray Ottawa. We would love to get to know you, support you, and connect you with other like-minded leaders.
In June 2010, prayer leaders from Ottawa came together to pray and dream about what God might have for our city. Read the 70+ dreams we’ve named below…
And we have just started dreaming of God’s dreams for our city!
● A Prayer Leadership Team that would catalyze and support many other specific teams that would take on some of these projects.
● An Ottawa House of Prayer (for the city) – maybe several across the city.
● A Missions Prayer Base
● Prayer Walking of every street in Ottawa
● Prayer Adoption of every street in Ottawa
● A City Hall Prayer Team
● Connectedness through a well-developed Communications System which would include every congregation in the City.
● A Research group
● A Creative Arts Community that prays
● Situational Prayer using “Art Stations”
● Prayer Booths at every celebratory event throughout the year. Eg. Canada Day, Jazz Fest, Winterlude
● Prayer Help phone line
● Website offering prayer
● Prophetic “Listening and Seeing” team
● SWAT teams (Strategic Warfare for special sites)
● Prayer Assemblies
● Days of Prayer
● Week of Prayer
● Prayer Walls
● 24-7 prayer weeks or weekends.
● The Burn in Ottawa
● Global Day of Prayer with huge buy-in from the Church
● Large Venue gatherings (like City-Wide)
● Regional Gatherings
● “Ushering In the Presence of the Lord” kind of prayer resulting in an anointing for HEALING throughout the city
● Healing Rooms around the city
● Greater and greater annual Ottawa Civic Prayer Breakfasts
● Prayer conferences with major speakers for training, and inspiring.
● Prayer trainers sent out to other cities and nations.
● “Bridal Intercession” that incorporates Worship. (taught to every prayer congregation through training teams)● Companies and Businesses with Intercessors
● Special Ops (teams that do deep research on major issues and can lead prayer into these issues.)
● Prayer for every school, college and university
● Prayer for Social Agencies
● Prayer for Families in Crisis
● Special “clean up” teams for crime sites.
● Prayer for every inner-city ministry
● Prayer for every EMS, Police officer, Firefighter
● Prayer team for every Police station.
● RCMP chaplains
● Prayer for our Prisons (awesome stuff is already happening)
● Special prayer for our juvenile incarceration facility
● City to City prayer missions
● An understanding and embracing of Ottawa’s “Gateway” calling
● Ottawa would be known as a “City of Prayer”
● Short-term prayer missions to other nations
● Fully supported long-term prayer missionaries in the nations.
● A focus on raising up prayer in our Youth
● Mobilization of our children to prayer
● Evangelism and Prayer Synergy
● Evangelistic Praying door-to-door
● Neighbourhood “Lighthouses of Prayer”
● More Incarnational Ministry like “Move-In”
● Training Teams that move around the congregations.
● Prayer Curriculum for every class and cell
● A Prayer Point person in every congregation to facilitate communication and mobilization
● A city that prays for the world
● Pastor to Pastor prayer everywhere
● Weekly Pastor’s prayer meetings in every sector of the city
● Pastor’s Prayer Days and Retreats
● Prayer for every pastor
● A prayer team backing every church planter
● The twinning of established congregations to pray for new church plants
● The breakthrough anointing on our prayers for the tough situations
● Breakthrough prayer for the Muslim community
● Special Prayer for First Nations
● Special Prayer for Francophones
● Special Prayer for Chinese,
● Special Prayer for the Lebanese and other Arabic communities
● Prayer that releases and procures property for church planting and other kingdom purposes
● Special Prayer effort targeting New Immigrant neighbourhoods
● Prayer Pilgrimages
● Prayer Retreats in the Contemplative tradition
● Resources available on the website
● An online centre for connection and identity and promotion of events and initiatives.
● A Newsletter that tells the stories and challenges congregations
● Salaried staff who can support all these initiatives.
And we have just started dreaming of God’s dreams for our city!
Pray Ottawa Teams
We partner with the following organizations to radiate the love of Christ to every neighbourhood of our city.
Ottawa Civic Prayer Breakfast
An annual breakfast to Pray for & Honour Our Mayor, City Councillors & First Responders
Prayer Postcards 4 Police
A local team that thanks and prays for all police officers and first responders.
City On Our Knees
An annual event to saturate every block of Ottawa in prayer.
“If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. This is to my Father’s glory.”
Unifying Prayer Leaders to Cover Ottawa
Pray Ottawa encourages focused and sustained prayer in order to see our city prayer-saturated.
We are focused on 4 elements:
Relationship-Building
Gather prayer leaders for encouragement, training, friendships, unity, and building teams.
Coordinating Efforts
Relay city needs so that coordinated and focused prayer can occur across all the congregations of the city.
Supporting
Organize and assist prayer rallies and gatherings.
Equipping
Train, coach and deploy believers to more effectively pray for the city.
Pray Ottawa is sustained by the generosity of ministry partners
Donate today to support the Kingdom work of Pray Ottawa.
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