19 February 2010
Text PRAYNOW to 82088
Following a successful pilot, the Methodist Church is now
offering free weekly prayer texts to help Methodists join in prayer
with hundreds of others on topical and personal issues.
To receive the texts people simply send a text message reading
PRAYNOW to 82088, which will be charged at their standard network
rate. All of the prayer texts they receive will be free of
charge.
Users of the pilot service were asked to text in their feedback and
the result was overwhelmingly positive. June M texted in to say, "I
welcome those prayertime texts, they make me stop & pray
whatever I'm doing, where ever I am. Thank you 4 a valued service".
Another user said, "Many thanks this service is of great value and
helps to encourage focusing on what is important during what we
consider to be our priorities."
"I feel moved by the idea that people across the country are being
connected through the prayer text service," said David Webster, the
Church's Internet Communications Coordinator. "Although many find
the beeping of mobile phones annoying, for those signed up to
PRAYNOW it will remind them that they are part of a growing
community of prayer, whatever may be going on around them."