If you have a heart to pray for the world, now you can find, on one website (globalprn.com), as much information and as many resources as you can imagine. The heart cry of Global Prayer Resource Network (GPRN) is to offer the most current information to help Christians pray effectively and powerfully for the nations and global issues. Isebel Spangenberg of South Africa, who has worked with Global Day of Prayer for the past 11 years, recently founded this new website to continue to fuel the global prayer movement. Updated on a daily basis, GPRN is an information hub to network and partner with prayer ministries and organizations from around the world to keep prayer information unique and current.

The praying community can sign up for free biweekly newsletters and urgent prayer bulletins that will keep pray-ers well informed on a continual basis.

What You’ll Find

Here is a brief description of what you will discover as you explore the three main areas of the website:

Prayer Events and Initiatives: In this drop-down tab you will find upcoming events and initiatives happening all over the globe, beginning with the most recent. Each will link you to the appropriate website and provide links to more resources to assist you in praying.

For example, as this “Surf’s Up” is being written, GPRN has posted suggestions for praying for Muslims participating in Ramadan. There are also prayer points for the evangelistic outreach and training happening now at a regional consultation in Rwanda. Many websites and prayer opportunities are listed related to the Olympic Games. Prayer is also being organized for the Balkan Prayer Day, the Like No Other conference,  24/7 prayer and worship hosted by the Children’s Prayer Network of Australia, 40 days of prayer for the U.S. national elections, and many more prayer initiatives.

Prayer for the Nations: On this page you will find each continent represented, allowing you to choose which area of the world you want to focus your prayers on. For example, if you click on Asia, you will be greeted by Operation World’s data, showing that Asia has a population of 4,166,741,314 (and counting) with 4,860 people groups and 2,322 languages. You will see a breakdown of the percentage of people following various religions throughout Asia. Following this information is a variety of continental prayer initiatives.

Prayer Resources: When you click on this tab, you will find a comprehensive list of prayer resources, with more added daily. The categories include: personal prayer; prayer evangelism; praying for the persecuted church; children, teens and prayer; pray for ethics, values, and clean living; and pray for the poor and suffering. As you begin to click through, you will find a wealth of resources to guide you to pray in these arenas.

For example, when you click on Praying for the Unreached, you come to a page with three main headings:

What Is the Problem?What Can You Do to Change This?How Can We Pray Effectively?

The What is the Problem? heading addresses this problem: One in four people still have no reasonable access to the gospel. Then the site lists the Joshua Project in response to that problem and provides a link to that ministry.

Under What Can You Do to Change This? Luke 10:1–3 is quoted to show that Jesus’ solution for us is prayer, and the site delineates ten ways prayer changes things.

The How Can We Pray Effectively? segment offers some scriptural ways to pray for the unreached, some creative practical ideas, a 40-day prayer calendar  showing how to pray for one unreached people group every day (follow the link: Praying for the 40 Largest Unreached Peoples), and links to several ministries focused on praying for the unreached.

By the time you read this, GPRN will have expanded its offerings greatly and updated its content. This could well be your go-to site for informed, targeted intercession for the nations of the world and the mission of Jesus Christ around the world. Spend some time exploring what God has for you, your family, and your church at globalprn.com.