What is the Prayer Minder?

The Prayer Minder is a tool to help people have a more effective and consistent prayer life. How does it help?

• Records everything you want to pray about, organized into categories like Family, Praise, Sick/Needy, and other buckets that you choose for yourself
• Lists topics and people you want to pray for in each category, and how often you want to pray for each. Options include every time you pray, weekly, monthly, every Monday, every Tuesday, etc.
• Serves up your prayer list when you pray, using your smartphone. You can either step through your prayers one item at a time or see a complete list to work from during your prayer time (no clicking).

Remember, YOU make all of the choices as to what you pray for, how everything is organized, and how often you pray for each. It’s easy to add and remove items and to change the frequency of any item.

Think about people from your past for whom you’d like to pray occasionally, perhaps once a month or every 3 months. Perhaps not top-of-mind enough to easily remember, but Prayer Minder takes care of that!

Getting Started

Once downloaded, your Prayer Minder app guides you through choosing your categories, which in the end will consist of 3 types:

• Categories we’ve suggested from past use of the Prayer Minder. This may include some that are prepopulated with things to pray for such as the nine Fruits of the Spirit. You can include, remove or rename these categories.
• Categories that you’ve added yourself, perhaps Co-workers or Sorority Sisters or your Book Club.

When you pray, you’ll do it one category at a time, so you will also set the order with which your categories will be served up. Sorting happens via very intuitive drag-and-drop.

Once you finish with categories, you are ready to enter what you want to pray for, and how often. You can add prayer items one at a time or view your entire category list and add them right there.

Setup is very important, mostly because it helps you to think things through. You’ll finish this step quickly and can easily return later as you gain experience with the Prayer Minder.

Time to Pray

The first time you pray, we’ll ask if you want to step through your prayers one item at a time or see the entire scheduled list for your session. Here are examples of each approach:

Special Features

Prayer Minder includes a number of options that make it easy to manage your use of the app.

• Look Forward – Brings up a view of all prayer items, by day, for the next week, with the ability to easily move them around. Useful to balance items among various days.
• Interrupted Session Handling – Let’s say you want to pray for John once a month. You begin your prayer session, but it gets interrupted before you get to John. He’ll be on your list the next time you pray (whether the same day or a future day – we’re not gonna skip John!).
• Notifications – Optional notifications to tell you a) it’s time to pray (based on a time that you set), and b) it’s past a certain time of day and you haven’t yet started a prayer session. Again, completely optional.
• Language Selection – English and Spanish on day one, with easy introduction of additional languages upon demand.
• Color Schemes – Choose your scheme from a list. If you want something special, we can easily add it as an option. Perhaps your favorite team’s colors?

Platforms and Cost

• First release will be for the iPhone through the App Store, either 99 cents or $1.99.
• There are no plans to charge for future updates
• Those helping us test and providing feedback prior to release will receive 10 free licenses and are encouraged to share with friends and family.