More about how the Prayer Center works:
The PrayerCenter Component provides users of a website with the capability to share their prayer concerns with others. Prayer concerns can be posted to the website, sent to members of the the prayer chain, and sent to the Spiritual director or pastor. Users can subscribe to be members of the prayer chain via online form.
Applications:
Instant prayers submitted allowing others to agree in prayer
Give testimony of what God has done
Lifting up the needs of one another to God in prayer with unity
Bringing the church together in agreement
Features:
Completely rewritten request distribution/notification
New View Prayer Listing template including email, pdf, and print capabilities
PMS plugin system for greater capability with private messaging components
RSS feed for new prayer requests
Devotional feed page
Choose whether or not to display the name of the person requesting prayer
Choose whether or not to display the date of prayer requests
Set the number of prayer requests viewable on a single page
Enable users to submit requests "privately" (they will not be displayed to the public)
Enable posting of praises/ answered prayers
Ability to choose between a plain text submission box or a WYSIWYG editor
Option to require registration to submit requests (and to require email confirmation)
Ability to send email messages to new subscribers or those unsubscribing
Ability to display a weblinks page on the PrayerCenter front end.
Ability to display a devotional page on the PrayerCenter front end.
Ability to require prayer requests to be approved before publishing (via confirmation emails or moderators)
Optional word filters (bad words, replace bad words with "x")
Enable RSS feeds of prayer requests
Enable Auto Purge of Requests (automatic purging after "x" number of days)
Ability to require Captcha for all users or for unregistered users only (keeps automated "bots" from submitting data)
Ability to block email domains from being used (in the event of abuse)
Ability to block individual email addresses from being used (in the event of abuse)
See it in live sites:
PCSDA
PHWC