People at the Trinity Worship Center on South Church Street in Burlington are taking their ministry outside of the church walls.
Cars passing by the church can see signs telling them to stop by if they need prayer. But the place where prayer happens is not in the church building itself, but under a tent.
There is nothing fancy or elaborate in the prayer station’s set-up. But what visitors will experience are the people under the tent and the work they are doing.
Jack Hensley and his wife first put up the tent 40 years ago.
“It’s very simple,” Hensley said. “You just see the need, put the station out, put a sign up and pray.”
Carolyn Kingman, one of the volunteers at the station, had personal motives for prayer at first, but now she says her focus is somewhere else.
“We wanted to setup a prayer station ministry for people with needs that would come in prayer,” Kingman said.
“For about three months it was all about me,” she said. “And then I realized one day that I was praying for others’ circumstances and other people, and I haven’t prayed for myself in a couple of weeks. From that point, I though, ‘now it’s time to pray for others and help others pray.”
But Kingsman doesn’t want the praying to stop there.
“Hopefully it gives them the inspiration that they too can pray for others,” Kinsman said. “They don’t even need a sign, or a tent or a chair. They can just do it.”
The prayer station is open every Thursday from 4:00 p.m. to dusk and every Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
