Episode Transcript
Speaker 0 00:00:00 Believe it or not. One of the most effective ways to reach people online now is through an online prayer ministry. Now, most churches, when they think about prayer, they think about how it can help the people that are already in their church. But what we have found is that it's really important for people that are not yet a part of your church. There are people with very deep needs that may come onto your website looking for help. And in today's episode, we're gonna talk about seven keys to an effective online prayer ministry for your church. We hope this conversation helps you reach more people and grow. This is the retried podcast. You're listening to the read-write podcast. The show dedicated to helping pastors and church leaders reach people the right way, hosted by me, Thomas Costello. And with me as always is my cohost Ian Hyatt. We're here to help your church see more visitors and grow
Speaker 0 00:01:14 Hey guys, welcome to the reach right podcast episode number 64. I am your host Thomas Costello. And with me as always is my cohost Ian Hyatt. What's up Thomas. Hey, not much man. Excited to have this conversation here today, a topic near and dear to my heart. Something I have a lot of experience with. We're going to talk about seven keys to an effective online prayer ministry for your church. So I think this is something that is new for a lot of churches. Uh, what does it mean to have an online prayer ministry? And, uh, I think that the pandemic four-star hands with, uh, with this for a lot of people, uh, this is something that the church that I pastor, uh, are pastored. Uh, we did this and we did very well. This has been one of the biggest sources of new visitors and traction and people coming to faith in Jesus.
Speaker 0 00:02:04 It made an enormous impact on our church. He's building it online, prayer ministry. Now I'm someone that has always been fond of prayer ministries. I have kind of a, a mixed relationship with it. So in my heart, I really believe in prayer ministries, but in my actions and the things that I do, my lifestyle says that I don't really value prayer ministry. If I'm being totally honest on this, very humble of you to say yes, and I'm sure that you're not alone. I think a lot of pastors are in that same place. I, I I'm, I remember a quote from a guy, a pastor named Jim Cymbala, uh, he's out of, uh, the Brooklyn, Brooklyn tabernacle is where he passed out and he wrote a book a long time ago, but he said in there, you can tell the, the strength of a church by the size of its prayer meetings.
Speaker 0 00:02:55 Uh, and, uh, if you judge by that, my church would have been very small and very weak by, by those six, because I, I, the churches that I've pastored, it's something that while we value it on paper, it's just so hard to put that together. And here's the reason why I feel okay confessing that is that in talking to churches, I think almost every church is in that exact same boat is that we believe in prayer, we'd know about it. We think it's important, but when it comes to our actual prayer gatherings and those things, there's not a lot there. So I think one of the things for me is that I, I saw a quote a long time ago that stuck with me is that you can tell the strength of a ministry by the size of its prayer gathering, like how many people show up for their prayer meetings. And if I'm being really honest, I have never led a church that was very strong by that measure, is that, uh, you know, I believe in prayer, I think it's something that is really important. I pray personally, but building a prayer ministry was always hard for me. Uh, and, uh, we did discover some things that actually work when we brought this online though. So, uh, yeah, I don't know. What are your thoughts on prayer ministries that, how has that for you guys?
Speaker 3 00:04:01 It's funny, it's near and dear to my heart too, and you're bringing back a really good memory yet. Interesting memories for me. It's whenever I was saved in my latter of college, uh, years, uh, I was actually like mid, mid twenties. Uh, and so anyway, I was, yeah, maybe 24, 25, the church did, the first ministry I got involved with was the prayer ministry, which was kind of interesting because it was a little uncommon because at my first church, this church, they had a prayer chapel and this was like a beautiful chapel, but it was a small little chapel that people go into and they would actually put prayer requests in different little boxes and different little, uh, you know, it was categorized and all of that. And then, um, and then the prayer meeting consisted of three little old ladies, uh, and who was at the time, kind of like a spiritual mentor mother to me, uh, who was as a woman who was influential in leading me to the Lord. Uh, I went with them. So here you have this guy in his mid twenties with all these older ladies, just basically praying for each request out of the, out of the box. How many
Speaker 0 00:05:08 Times
Speaker 3 00:05:10 I probably went, uh, maybe four to six times. And, and that was a lot because it always had an awkward feel with just me, uh, guidance, twenties under the builder. But, but I will tell you, God really worked through that. And, and it established a real foundation of prayer in my personal, uh, walk and everything. So anyway, brought back a good bit. So glad we're talking about,
Speaker 0 00:05:32 I've heard so many of your stories over the years. I haven't heard, I don't know that I heard that one before, because I had a really similar one. I used to be a part of our prayer ministry, the first place I was on staff at a church. Uh, one of the things I led was, uh, I, I was leading the people that led the prayer ministry there. And I remember feeling called to it, moved by that quote. I shared that I want to make this something important. And it was just always something that, um, that it was a handful of people that were, middle-aged usually single ladies that devoted their time to doing those kinds of things. And I loved them. They were, they were fantastic, uh, fantastic people. And it was really great, but, and you know, the thing is like that was a good size church.
Speaker 0 00:06:13 There were two or three people at hours. Usually I know the church you were at where that happened. That was not a small church. Right. And there was a healthy, vibrant church, or so remember church two or three people at the prayer meeting. So it's funny that that's the way that, that works there. But I think that part of the problem is that we approach this somewhat in the wrong way. And especially when we're talking about online prayer ministry, I want to pivot here to this. And what I'm talking about with this is that a lot of times we think of the prayer ministry as a place where church members can submit their prayer requests and have them prayed for whether by the pastors or, uh, by the, by the prayer team, whoever would be praying for it. They can submit those requests. I think that there's a really big opportunity for an online prayer ministry for it to be bigger than that.
Speaker 0 00:07:01 And that's what I experienced at our church. I'll share a little bit of our testimony and what we experienced out there, uh, is that, um, when, when we at the journey that I was pastoring in Madison, Wisconsin, I know we built an online prayer ministry there, and we just saw amazing results of people from in the community. Uh, they were filling out forms all the time asking for prayer requests and we saw lots of people get connected to our church and, uh, establish a relationship and do those kinds of things. So it's really something that was important to us there. So, um, I think there's a lot of opportunity evangelistically with prayer ministries when it's done. Right? So let's just jump in though to the seven things. I guess the seven keys that we found to building an effective one, I'll hit the first one today.
Speaker 0 00:07:46 Uh, it's the first thing, and this should be obvious, but if you're going to have an online prayer ministry, you need to build an effective prayer landing page. You need to build a landing page that actually works for this. And so what this means is you can't just have a place on your website where it says need prayer. And there's a form that's at the bottom of every page or something like that, because you're going to get nothing. If that happens just a plain page that way. So what you need to do is build an entire page around prayer and what it means to you. And so what we did at our church is we, we had a section on that page that talked about why we believed in prayer and we had a section on what you can expect God to do when we do pray.
Speaker 0 00:08:28 Yeah. And we talked about some of the theology behind that as we believe God hears us and he, the way he answers and we didn't, we're not promising that he's always gonna, uh, go, he's going to answer our prayers the way we want, because I will tell you, you will get a lot of prayer requests that say, Lord, fill up my bank accounts. And those types of things, you'll see, we did get lots of those kinds of prayer requests come in. And like it was, we saw some, this one lady, uh, would weekly put in, I'd never met her. I don't know her name or anything. She just kind of put it in an anonymous prayer. Uh, it said, Lord, please pray the Lord, please fill my, my chase checking account. She was specific about what bank it was, my chase account, fill it to the brim Lord.
Speaker 0 00:09:07 And she would put in that prayer request each and every week there. And, uh, it was, it was just funny. We would get that. And every week we would still pray for her for those things, but he didn't leave an account number for us, but we would, we would, we would pray for every week, but we never got a testimony that God filled up those accounts there because, you know, we all know that we're, we're not a prosperity preaching people, you and I or anything. Right. You know, I think that building a landing page that spends some time and actually explains prayer. And there's lots of things you can do on this, but no, you have to have a dedicated page. It probably should be, uh, your church domain.com/prayer. That's where you should probably put it on your sites. But yeah, this is what, this is the first step.
Speaker 3 00:09:50 Yeah, absolutely. And I can't believe how many times I still see. Cause you know, I look at websites daily. Uh, I see just so many, just there's a prayer link. And I honestly, there's not a prayer link on every church website. I mean, even though this has been something that's been around for over a decade, that was one of the first things that rightfully so churches thought of when websites were first, even a thing, uh, was to have a prayer link or at least a form or where someone can email in or something like that. But I, I see it on a lot of church websites still, but I'm still so surprised to just when someone clicks on that just goes to a form or if it does go to a page there's only maybe just like one blurb of scripture there, which is great. Put what, you know, there's so many scriptures that teach what prayer is all about and that are based on prayer. That's good to have on that is something you should have on this page, but you need to go a little bit deeper than that too, for sure.
Speaker 0 00:10:46 Sure. Yeah. Then we'll talk about some other things you can put on this page as we get into this here today, but why don't you go and hit the set the second one for us here. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:10:52 I asked for prayer requests. Um, so that's the funny thing, you know, you have not because you ask not, we know that everybody knows that that verse, right? So you, you got to actually ask people to, to fill out the form or to, to, to get engaged with you for prayer. Uh, you know, you've got to make it known when announcements, whatever, you know, it has to be something that is mentioned and asked for. Um, so that's a lot of times it's a lot of people think if you just build it, they will come. And that's not, that's not the truth, you know, just by having the link on there or the form that doesn't mean people are going to fill it out.
Speaker 0 00:11:28 Yeah. And I have a few ideas on what should be on that form. Um, we, we did a lot of experimentation with this because, uh, here's a general rule with anything marketing or web development related. Um, is that when you, the more you ask for in a form, the fewer things, the fewer forms you'll get filled out. So if you have a long form with 10 questions on it about, uh, you know, tell me what you're wanting to see God do, and what has he done so far? And you get into these and you ask for their name and email address and home address and phone number and you ask them, are
Speaker 3 00:12:02 You saved?
Speaker 0 00:12:04 Whatever. Yeah. When did you make a decision to follow Jesus, all these things, each one of those will incrementally reduce the number of people that fill out that form because they're reluctant to give their personal information or get into it takes more time. And so our recommendation is when you ask, ask people to do it and on that form, ask as few questions as you can. So what we found to be the best thing for us is that we would have name, email address and prayer requests. There was just three boxes on there and we got a lot of responses we did. Okay. When we had phone number on there too, that's one of those kind of count the cost on that. Um, I think a lot of
Speaker 3 00:12:43 It says optional. Like I've seen a lot of forms. That phone number says optional, and that probably is a good thing.
Speaker 0 00:12:48 Right? Exactly. So make sure that, I think if you're going to put phone number on their phone number on there, make it optional, but I think it is nice too, because you can text somebody when they do submit their phone number and you can shoot them a quick text and kind of communicate with them on that. So, um, yeah, I think that's really good.
Speaker 3 00:13:04 Good, good stuff. Cool. And you know, other than that, I'll, I'll tackle one though. You got the next one, let me get the next one.
Speaker 0 00:13:10 Uh, get traffic. Uh, and I think this is probably the one where people get stumped at the most because we we've done this many times where we've helped churches build prayer pages on their websites. They look great. They take all those boxes of talking about what prayer is and why it's important and sharing stories about those things. So what churches struggle with though is how do we get people on there? Because it's not a, if you build it, they will come out of a thing. If you just put a prayer request page on your website, uh, you can count on occasionally people from within your church, uh, actually getting out there and putting in their prayer requests. But what, what really is important I think is that you actually get it out there, uh, in lots of different channels. And I have a few different ways.
Speaker 0 00:13:54 I think three different ways you would do that. Number one is you talk about it in church. Uh, so on Sunday mornings, let people know there's a place online to put in your prayer requests, uh, encourage people to share them that way. So that's an obvious one. I think, getting it out on your social channels, uh, that's really important. Uh, and making sure that it's shared on your, uh, in your, maybe that's the link in your Instagram bio for your church has a link to your prayer page. That's a great idea there. Uh, perhaps it's a place that, uh, you, you put it on your Facebook page, you put posts out there about it, those kinds of places. So get it out on social. Uh, I would say the biggest though where we got the best results is this was a really good resource for the Google grant. So we talk about this. Well, maybe you can go ahead and tell people about the Google grant and how we've talked about it.
Speaker 3 00:14:43 We've talked about it in numerous episodes. And of course we serve churches. We help churches, uh, take advantage of the Google grant. Uh, but the reason why this was effective and you, you told me, you know, in depth, how it helped your, your last church you pastored of of course, how, how the, you know, you would see what this is. So just to get right down to it, Google gives up to $10,000 a month to 5 0 1 C3. So churches are included in that, that bucket of Google ads. Um, so these are online ads that are designed to direct traffic to your website or a landing page on your website. So in this example, your prayer landing page, and I remember you would say that you guys would, you know, so when someone went online and if they searched anything for prayer, or maybe they gave a spiritual answers or, um, you know, uh, depression or something like that, uh, it would link, there'd be an ad.
Speaker 3 00:15:37 You know, you know, the journey church, we want to pray for you, whatever they click on it. Uh, and then it drove them traffic to your landing page. So the Google grant is excellent for generating traffic that people are, who are searching for something that's similar to spirituality or, or your, or church life or church of dense, all of these things. So it's related searches. So it's not just someone looking for a PlayStation five and they ended up on your prayer page, which, which actually it might be prayer. I need prayer since they're not available. Right. But no. So it's people looking for something of interest there. And I know you guys say a lot of result. We have other churches that see a lot of results for their prayer ministry with this too. So,
Speaker 0 00:16:21 So the, the challenge for most churches with the Google grant, again, the $10,000 Google gives to churches every month, uh, for advertising on their platform. Some churches will come to us and ask, Hey, I hear Google sending us $10,000 in cash. If we sign up now, it doesn't work that way. You get free ads, $10,000 worth every month. The challenge with that is that there aren't enough people searching for churches in their area or church services, or those kinds of searches. If you only target those kinds of keywords in those ads, you might spend between 20 and $50 a month is how much of that money you can actually spend there. So what churches need when they're running Google ads is they need a broader, uh, more, uh, things that are searched much more often. And we found that prayer was something that surprisingly was searched for quite a bit, and then deep spiritual needs of all kinds.
Speaker 0 00:17:16 You mentioned, uh, people dealing with depression, people dealing with divorce, people, dealing with parenting issues, people dealing with marriage issues, all kinds of stuff. We would target some of those things and just present that, you know, perhaps an answer isn't, uh, you know, yeah, sure. Counseling is a good answer. And maybe a divorce attorney is a, is an answer for you in certain situations, but we believe another answer to what you're facing might be prayer. And so we would cater some ads around each one of these things here, uh, and just some kind of some numbers. So people get an idea of we're talking about, uh, the church was a small church and we started doing this. We were very small. We were a mid, 150 people or so on a Sunday. Uh, and we would, um, we would put out these kinds of ads and we would get probably about 50 to 60 clicks a day on these ads.
Speaker 0 00:18:06 Uh, and we averaged by the end of doing it for a couple of years, we would average between 10 and 15 prayer requests that were coming in every single day. And again, these ads are targeted. So these are people that are right in our community that are seeking out prayer from our church. Now, again, not everyone is someone who is like I told you, there's people asking for bank account blessings and that kind of stuff. That's great. You know, finances are a huge challenge that people have sometimes they're silly prayer requests, but I think if I can say that, I'm not saying that, um, again, I don't think that they meant it in a silly way. Maybe I shouldn't say that, but I think that it
Speaker 3 00:18:41 Revealed a lot, the winning lotto numbers to make
Speaker 0 00:18:44 Those, we did get those guys. And then we got all kinds of ones that came in with people, criticizing us and telling us that, you know, we believed in the spaghetti monster in the sky and all kinds of people that just said those things, that if you've been administry, any length of time, you get that kind of stuff. You know how it is. But I mean, this is, imagine if your church did something like this, and let's say you got to those same kinds of numbers that say you're a, a small to medium sized church and you have 15 people in your community every single day, reaching out to you with deep heartfelt needs that we're looking for prayer and looking for God to step in and do something in that situation. It's amazing
Speaker 0 00:19:26 That, that, what kind of impact could you make with that? Like, I mean, honestly for us, it was overwhelming. Uh, and that was something that we had to actually make a, we had to make rules about how we would pray for people because we would, we, at first we just had a person that was kind of fielding them and they'd share them with a few staff members and things, and they'd just be praying for themselves, but 15 different people a day that really starts to add up. And it was, it was pretty powerful there. So that gets us to the next one here. I'll let you go. I'm just going to say 15 a day. What do you do
Speaker 3 00:19:57 You actually pray for them? So pray. Yeah, no, and I mean, it's just funny. I mean, you would think this would be obvious, but I think it can be easy for a smaller church. Like you said, you guys were overwhelmed. I think it could be easy to let some of these requests fall through the cracks. I mean, you really do need to build a team around this or at least a couple of people or whatever, uh, you know, that are going to ground these and actually pray. Uh, and, and I mean, I think that the funny thing is, is that, you know, I think, I think we could, the temptation would be, and, and this is, this is a good thing too, but for a pastor or a minister leader, to wanna just turn these people into first time visitors. Right. And not all of them will be.
Speaker 3 00:20:38 And I think if you go into it with that mindset, uh, you won't actually probably pray, uh, you know, or pray deeply because the Lord knows you're getting these requests too. Right. He wants to see, he wants to actually see prayer happening. And that's how change really will happen in their lives, as we know, uh, as Christ followers. So I think though, but that's important. It can be easily missed. You could get these requests and you could even maybe just respond to people without even praying. So I think doing that and building a team around it, and I'm sure you have some other ideas too.
Speaker 0 00:21:09 Yeah. I want it to be not just, um, uh, to, to not just be something that is transactional and it's not, I there's marketing elements this again, that's what we do. This is a marketing related podcast for churches, and this is something that the way that we are wired to think. And I think that, you know, we're, we're marketing ends and discipleship begins is kind of a tough line, uh, sometimes for people to, to feel comfortable with. But I think in the end, uh, the, these are real people, even though it's coming online, sometimes we have this temptation to think that someone that is praying asking me for prayer in person on a Sunday morning after service telling me about how their marriage is falling apart is somehow more real than a person that typed that into a form online when really it's the exact same challenges that are happening.
Speaker 0 00:21:59 So you would never just kind of dismiss someone as out of hand, if they came up to you on a Sunday and asked for prayer, even if you didn't have time to do it, you'd find someone right then and there to lay hands and pray with them and ask God to step in their situation. So don't, don't just, uh, don't we can't think of it as just a marketing ploy. Uh, that's not what it is actually take the time and build teams around it. Now you say building teams, it'll take some people. I think when you're starting out, you could probably have one person feeling it and then maybe sharing with other people when there's other requests or things that maybe other staff members need to know or leaders in the church. But I think just that just, I want to be really clear about this is that if you're going to build an online prayer ministry, don't just get people's information to invite them on Sunday, actually pray with them. I think that's really important.
Speaker 3 00:22:47 That's good stuff. I think that's also a good segue to the next one that you're going to tackle because it's a part of this.
Speaker 0 00:22:52 Yeah, yeah. So part of it is when you pray for people and they're real people, the next step is to follow up with them, actually reaching out to them. So if you just receive prayer forums, uh, and, uh, I know people fill these out a lot of times because they want to be kind of, it's not as intimidating as going up to someone on a Sunday morning and asking for prayer or walking into a church building or making a phone call to the church office. It's easier. And people kind of get the courage to do it, but the thing is you, you need to take a step to follow up with these people and actually let them know that you're praying. So, um, what I would recommend is that immediately after you've seen the prayer request, you've prayed for it. Send a message right. Then at that point, right there saying, Hey, I just want to let you know that I got your request.
Speaker 0 00:23:44 Yeah. I prayed for you today. And I'm believing God's going to step in and the situation and it doesn't have to be long. You don't have to give a, you don't have to give theology to it. Um, I think sometimes here's what we had to do. I'll share this. Sometimes people will say, Hey, uh, I'm in a really abusive relationship. And, uh, I I've dealt with several people that were being abused by, uh, women that were being abused by their husbands in most situations. And so we've had to, in addition to say, Hey, I want you to know I'm praying for you. I have prayed for you. I'm going to continue to, I also want to encourage you to, to, to not be there if it's actually dangerous for you to get out and, and, and, and go somewhere else. If you need someone or a place to go, please reach out to us and we'd be happy to, we can find
Speaker 3 00:24:25 And resource you. Yeah. And that shows that you care too. Right? I mean, that's a, that's the thing too, is that if you don't follow up, I mean, they, you know, that Howard's, I wouldn't feel like I was, I would just be, did I get prayed for, did the church just have that on their website or whatever, just, just to say that they did and they check off the box, but I mean, you're authentic when you actually, when you actually follow up.
Speaker 0 00:24:49 Yeah, absolutely. And you can see, like, this is building into something that it takes some real manpower to do this. Right. So someone's fielding as, as we got to our place of 15 per requests a day, you're fielding 15 requests, you're responding to 15 requests and it's something that you need to, and I think that there's some place for further follow-up too. Like, I think not just w I wouldn't recommend just one right after you pray, but I think as, you know, maybe put a ping in your calendar to remind you that in a week, I want to follow up and see, Hey, I've been, been praying for you. I wanted to see, has there been any traction and how has that been going and those things, and that actually leads, I think, well, to the next one, if it was,
Speaker 3 00:25:28 Yeah, because then what you should also do is ask for testimonies. Um, so I would assume every church that, uh, here's, our podcast believes in the power of prayer. And so, uh, and I have been the recipient of many answered prayer requests from God, and which is awesome, right? That's something that builds your faith is not a silent God. And so you should believe big and you should ask for testimonies because there will be testimonies. You know? And, and like we said earlier, someone whose bank account may not be filled up, but, uh, but God will step in and do something. Maybe he did help financially. Those are great testimonies to have this all the time happens all the time. And so, but you, you got to ask for these two, and these, this is great to get, because I mean, first of all, when you have that content also on this very same page, so not just a prayer request form, and some of the other content we've talked about, but this is great because it's also showing people that you want to hear their stories.
Speaker 3 00:26:27 You want to hear success. So it's a very encouraging thing. And it, like you said, there's, as we've been going through this podcast, I think the ministry leaders, knowing that there is a system to this, there is some building that you have to do and some work, uh, this is one more step to take, but boy, is it worth it? And I know you've, you've seen this at your, I've seen this at my church as well over the years. Just how, how am I, how, how much this has worked to get testimonies from prayer requests.
Speaker 0 00:26:54 Yeah. I think just like, this is a part that we skip a lot of times, everybody loves to hear answered prayers, right? When, so in DOD has done something as we've been praying for it. It just, it builds everybody's faith. And we want to hear that. And so people, they're actually excited to tell you when God has stepped up and done something. So the way I, a few practical tips on this is that if someone asks for prayer, like, Hey, uh, I'm going in, or someone in my family is going in for surgery, or they have some kind of a situation, and it's going to happen on this date. You probably want to put a little note in your calendar or reminder of some kind says, Hey, reach out to this person on this date to see how things went. Because again, if you're fielding this many requests, it's going to be, as it grows, it's going to be hard to manage that.
Speaker 0 00:27:36 Now, I want to say this too, before we get too far into this, you're not going to have 15 requests a day coming in after you started day one. I just want to put you at ease with that, unless you already are an enormous church and you probably have staff to handle this. They'll trickle in at first, you might get a couple a week or something like that, but then it'll start to snowball over time. And this is a good problem to have, right? We want to be praying for more people. That's exactly what I think Jesus would be doing is he'd be stepping into the, and he did pray for people and healed the sick and did those things. And so it's something that I'm getting those stories though. And following up with people, reminding ourselves to do it, I think that's really important to do that.
Speaker 0 00:28:14 So, uh, it helps us to it, it helps us that I guess that I'll close with this one too. It kind of leads us to the last one is when you get those testimonies, you need to share those testimonies because this is something that helps that snowball continue and it encourages and builds up. People's faith, faith. I think that, I don't know, we just, we love sharing these kinds of stories of what God has done. Right. And I love it. And I think it's a great way for us to encourage people within our church and people that are in the future looking for prayer. So what I would recommend is yes, share it on Sunday. Talk, talk about it from the pulpit, social media stories in your, with permission, of course, get permission to share these kinds of stories, but build on your prayer landing page with these testimonies. Uh, so, um, if you can, if you can get them, if they're written that's okay, but if you can get a video testimony of, Hey, I was in this situation, God stepped in. We got, we asked God for prayer. The church came around us. They prayed for us. And here's what God has done. If we can get videos of that on your prayer landing page, it's just going to continue to reinforce the value of this page, the power of prayer. And it'll help you to engage with more people that way.
Speaker 3 00:29:27 And I I'd tell you if I came to a prayer landing page and I clicked a brief video testimonial, or even if I just saw maybe a picture. And like you said, text a little short testimonial, I'd be more likely to fill out the prayer request full course, you know, Hey, God's doing something at this church. Especially maybe someone who's skeptical and a really rough time. I mean, that's encouraging. And I think it's going to, you know, increase the likelihood of someone actually filling out your prayer request form. Yeah,
Speaker 0 00:29:54 Yeah. That's exactly right. So yeah. Get out there, share those testimonies. Tell the stories of it. You guys, I really think this is one of the biggest untapped opportunities for most churches, because you do a quick search. Most communities don't have churches that are actively doing something like this. I think it's a huge opportunity that, uh, it's just out there to be, to be claimed, ready for people to take advantage of it with that. So I encourage people to try it. Um, the, the, the secret sauce for us again, was really leveraging that Google grant. So if a church is thinking about doing this and you need some help on the Google grant, it is, you don't need a third party to do it, but there is some skill involved with managing that. We have a team here at reach, right? That is, uh, certified by Google and went through lots and lots of training to be very good at getting results for churches in any number of categories.
Speaker 0 00:30:41 But this is probably one of the ones that performs the best for us. So if you do need some help with that, we'd be happy to help. Uh, just paying, you'll probably wind up chatting with Ian or, uh, or Megan on our team here. They'd really do great work with those kinds of things. Uh, let us know. You can let us know in the comments on here too, down below, just, uh, you could ping us if you're looking for some help on any of those things. If you have any questions on it at all, or want to chat more about it, we'd love to interact with people on these podcasts too. So do let us know if you aren't already please subscribe. If this means something to you. Uh, that means a lot to us, that it helps us to get the word out there about the podcast and get it to more people. So thank you guys so much for being part of a retried family here, and we hope to catch you guys next week.
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