Praying for the world, one street at a time
Pray My Street
Choose a street. Pray for it. Watch it turn green for everyone.
It began with an A to Z and a highlighter, one street coloured in at a time. Pray My Street is that page, shared by everyone and drawn on a map of the whole world. Free to use. It never asks where you are.
01 The idea
Three colours, one map, everybody's streets
Every street on earth is on the map. Every one of them starts grey. What happens next is up to the people who open it.
Not yet prayed for
Every street begins grey. Somewhere in the world, most still are. That is the point of the map, not a failing of it.
Prayed for
Someone has sat, or stood, and prayed for the people on it. It turns green on every screen at once, wherever in the world that screen is.
Prayed for many times
When many people have prayed for a street, it turns gold. Nobody is counted out loud and nobody is named. The colour is enough.
02 What happens when you pray
Find a street, hold a moment, and it turns green
Four screens, and the whole of it. Everything else in the app exists to serve these.
Any street in the world
Search by name or tap the map, on a phone or on a computer. The same name in two towns is two different streets, each with its own colour.
One clear action
The street, whether anyone has prayed for it yet, and the nearest church. Then one button, and nothing else asked of you.
Held, not ticked off
A still screen and a verse, for as long as you need. Nothing is timed and nothing is counted against you.
Green for everyone
The colour changes on every screen, everywhere, the moment you finish. Your own record and your town's coverage move with it.
Concept screens drawn on the real streets of Brierley Hill. The figures on them are illustrative.
03 Why
“The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.”James 5 : 16, NIV
The whole of Pray My Street rests on one belief: that prayer changes things, and that a great many people praying for a great many streets changes more. The map is only there so you can see it happening.
04 Together
Praying for each other
The map is one half of it. The other half is people.
Share
Ask someone to pray for your street
Send your street to a friend, a neighbour or a house group. They open the link and can pray for it, with nothing to install and no account. No names and no messages to write.
Groups · later
A church praying together
A church, a house group or a whole network shares one total and a map of its own. Everyone still prays as themselves, and nobody is ever named on the map.
For churches →
05 The promise
What it will never do
Never
- Ask where you are, at any time, for any reason. There is no location permission to grant.
- Show your name on the map, or beside a street, or to anyone at all.
- Sell, share or advertise against anything you do here.
- Put the act of praying behind a payment.
- Nag you, badge you or guilt you back.
Always
- Free to pray, for everyone, for ever.
- Any street in the world, on a phone or a computer, nothing to install.
- Your own record, kept private to you.
- One quiet thing to do, done well.
06 Where it stands
Drawn first, then built
The concept has been designed screen by screen on real streets, and you can tap through it today. The app itself is being built now, and a small group of people will try it before anyone else.
Put your name down and you will get one email when it is ready to test. If you belong to a church that might want to be among the first, say so on the form.
The stages
- NowGathering the first people, and agreeing the handful of rules everything rests on.
- NextAny street on earth, the three colours, the moment, your record, your town's coverage.
- ThenChurch and group accounts, walks people make themselves, more of the words.
- LaterThe app in the stores, once the loop has proved itself.