Prayer & Worship

We strive to keep worship and prayer at the core of our missions training. Students enrolled at Bethany are challenged to go deep in their walk with the Lord and cultivate a life of whole-hearted communion with Him. Our desire is to see missionaries raised up who not only have the practical skills necessary for effective, sustained missionary work, but minister from the overflow of their love for God.

Prayer and Missions

Prayer is core to missionary training. To offset the lies of the world, the flesh, and the devil, the Lord’s servants need to be saturated with the truth of the living and the written Word of God.

It is also recognized that the Godly discipline of prayer is one that is difficult to develop because of the spiritual opposition to personal intimacy with God and to corporate worship and intercession. For this reason, one of the most crucial parts of missionary training is to develop a history and habit of prayer and fasting (both personal and corporate) in preparation for full-time ministry. Therefore, students are encouraged to spend as much time as they can in the Prayer Room or Prayer Sanctuary.

Prayer and Worship Opportunities

Students participate in regular times of extended prayer and worship. There are 3 weekly chapel times in which students participate,  one being solely devoted to worship, prayer and fasting. We also come together several times each year for a half-day set apart for prayer as a community.

An environment of prayer is continually fostered on campus. Prayer for, and with, one another is an integral part of cell group times, one-on-one meetings with mentors, and team meetings on Global Internship. Throughout the week, the Bethany Prayer Room and the Bethany Church Prayer Sanctuary also provide opportunities to take part in corporate and personal worship and prayer.

Prayer Ministry volunteers are available upon request to meet the personal needs students have for prayer as they grow in their relationship with God and others.

The Bethany Prayer Room

The desire of those involved in the Bethany Prayer Team is to see “Watchmen on the Walls” (Isaiah 62:6-7) offering up prayer twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Students have the opportunity to be these watchmen by signing up for one or more one-hour time slots, as well as participating in the weekly corporate worship and intercession times.

In the Prayer Room, there are three primary motivations.

1. attentively listening to the words of Jesus (Luke 10:42, John 15:7),

2. giving love and worship to God (Matthew 22:37), and

3. joining God in interceding for His purposes and work at Bethany and around the globe.