Prayer Tower:  214.599.9485

If you would like someone to personally pray with you over the phone, please call 214.599.9485.  If no one answers, please leave your prayer request and a phone number, and your call will be returned as soon as possible.

He said to them, "It is written,  'My house will be called a house of prayer'".   Matthew 21: 13

“Call unto me and I will answer thee and show thee great and wonderful things which thou knowest not.” Jeremiah 33:3

What is the Prayer Tower?
On January 16, 1975, a small group of our church people was interested in furthering our HPUMC evangelism program by having a Prayer Ministry. We discussed how the ministry could begin with a group of loving, caring members who wanted a special place in the church where members could go to meditate, to feel the presence of the Lord and pray for the needs of people. Clarice Nichols was then and is now the Director Emeritus and the very strength of the planning of our Prayer Tower we have today. It didn't take Clarice Nichols and her friend Lola Elliott long to get the small twelve by twelve room with stained glass windows decorated and furnished with a desk, a few chairs, a kneeling bench, all with beautiful taste and a very simple understated elegance. This is how the Prayer Tower came into existence.

What is the purpose and procedure for the Prayer Tower?
As to the logistics of the Prayer Tower, seven people are the Coordinators, with each Coordinator being responsible for ten Intercessors on Her day of the week from seven in the morning through five o’clock in the evening. At the end of the day the calls are forwarded to an Intercessor’s home to take calls during the night, making this ministry a 24-hour schedule. The Coordinator sees that each Intercessor is at his or her post and if for some reason that Intercessor cannot come, due to illness or any problem, then the Coordinator will find a substitute for this particular hour. This is the way our Prayer Tower functions today. We have 93 Intercessors serving (70 ladies and 23 men) one hour a week. We have 15 substitutes, a great and wonderful team of Prayer Warriors who love the Lord and feel so blessed to be serving Him. We have four books in the Prayer Tower listing incoming prayers:

• One book is for illness only
• One book is for non-illness (those with family or business problems)
• One book is for long-term prayers, such as for our country, our president, and our Pastor, etc.
• One book is for our military stationed throughout the United States and the world

What will you do?
When a person wishes to become an Intercessor, they will be given instructions as to what to do and will have the chance to become acquainted with the Prayer Tower before they take their permanent hour. As Intercessors we have seen God’s powerful hand in answer to many requests in the Prayer Tower books… and oh what a joy and blessing it is to serve in our Prayer Tower! Serving in the Prayer Tower is a heart-warming service where one sees and knows the true power of prayer and the very omnipotence of our God. We are grateful that 30 churches in our metroplex have patterned their Prayer Tower from the Highland Park Prayer Tower Ministry… and may it all be to His Glory as we continue to serve our Heavenly Father.

In Christ’s Name,
The Prayer Tower team

“Men ought always to pray and never lose heart.” Luke 18:1

Becoming a Prayer Tower Intercessor: A Letter from a Prayer Intercessor
About twelve years ago, I picked up the church paper looking for volunteer opportunities. I had no idea then that volunteering for the Prayer Tower would mean a long-term commitment on my part or that I would be so blessed by this ministry. I wasn’t looking very hard or diligently. But, as we know, God will take the smallest effort on our part and turn it to an amazing purpose.

I thought, yes, I could do that. And, having come that far, I found that I was unable to feel entirely comfortable until I had called and made plans to be there. I thought I was volunteering so I could do something for someone else. And it seemed a small thing to do, in a way, to pray over the requests which have come in, or to pray with a caller by phone; at least an easy thing, most of the time.

The Prayer Tower is a comforting and comfortable place to be. It's high above most of the church, overlooking a garden, with beautiful stained glass windows on three sides. It is a quiet place in an unquiet world. There is a desk with its binders filled with requests for prayer; warm furnishings and decorative touches including several inspirational paintings, scriptures and sculpture; and even a small kneeling cushion and altar. Each intercessor takes one hour a week and takes the room just as the previous intercessor is leaving. At the end of the hour, the next intercessor comes in.

You take the time. It’s only one hour.

“Could you not watch with me one hour? Watch, and pray, that you may not fall into temptation.” (Matthew 26:40)

It puzzles me because having been so enriched by this experience, I can’t believe there is not a waiting list to become a prayer intercessor. Maybe you have read this article and felt a pull also. Maybe you are called to be an intercessor – or perhaps you’d just like to try it a few times and see what it’s like. There is no commitment too small to be accepted. All are needed. But I give you fair warning – prayer is habit forming.

Marilyn Spaulding
Prayer Intercessor