About Us

A call that grew

Since 2001, The Presidential Prayer Team has been the place Americans turn for encouragement and a clear call to pray for the nation’s leaders. Across twenty-five years, that invitation has grown into a fellowship of more than 3 million people who have joined this work of prayer.

Why we pray

We are a national, non-partisan Christian ministry. Our mission is steady: encourage, inspire, and pray for the president, national leaders, and those who serve in uniform. We also want prayer to become a daily habit, not a response only in a crisis. Prayer, we believe, changes a nation one heart at a time.

We hold that Almighty God rules over the affairs of men and moves in answer to the prayers of His people. Members of The Presidential Prayer Team raise that covering every day, with devotion that does not shift with the headlines.

A reach that carries the call

The call goes out through five websites and a large, active email list. In a typical week those messages number in the several millions, a volume that places PPT among the top nine of the ten world email-volume tracked by the Cisco Talos Reputation Center. The websites see several hundred thousand sessions a day. The content is updated around the clock, and it is often carried by news outlets, churches, personal sites, and social media.

Pray First, from the page to the air

In 2016 PPT opened a publishing arm, the Pray First Network, at PrayFirst.org. Print and media from that desk reached 650 radio outlets, in major cities and in smaller communities alike. Pause to Pray was the one-minute radio feature: one U.S. leader each day, and a call to pray for that person. Pray First also issued the Prayer Journal, a quarterly in print, so members could pray the same leaders together, page by page, not only on a screen.

When the news will not wait

Pray First Network also runs Pray First Responders. Text info to 772911. When a significant event breaks, thousands of phones receive a PrayNow alert, so prayer can start in the moment rather than after the briefing arrives.

Special gatherings through the year

Some days ask for more than the daily briefing. Three of them have become part of the year for this ministry.

Pray the Vote. In election years, PPT presents PrayTheVote.org. It offers accurate, non-partisan information on candidates and issues, so prayer can be prepared and specific. It also asks the praying community to take part: register, vote, and pray as the next leaders are chosen.

National Day of Prayer. Each year this observance falls on the first Thursday in May. Congress set aside a day of prayer in 1952, and in 1988 fixed it on that Thursday. Since 2003, PPT’s reach by email and the web has made it the online gathering for that day, so people can take part from home or the office, not only from a church service. Online prayer rooms open for shared prayer and for listening as others pray. Printed guides go to churches and members, laid out so a group can pray in order through the current federal and state offices and the people who hold them.

Christmas on I Pray Radio. Several times a year, and especially in May, I Pray Radio streams prayers recorded by members, produced so the wider membership can pray along. At Christmas the same service sets aside talk and commercials for a careful mix of Christ-centered and traditional Christmas music. That program is among the most listened-to hours of the year.

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Purpose, Beliefs, and Mission

The Presidential Prayer Team exists to provide a consistent urging toward prayer for the president and leadership of the United States of America, for all who have the Spirit of the Living God active in their hearts. This rises from a few beliefs which form our core values:

• We believe that prayer is effective, and is a gift given to us by God to affect Him in this world. Thus, we value prayer in general, as means to accomplish the will of God in this country.
• We believe that the Apostle Paul’s “urging” for us to offer “prayers, petitions, intercession, and thanksgiving for all people: for kings and all those in authority,” is an urging from the heart of God, so that we may lead “quiet and peaceful lives in all godliness and holiness” (I Tim 2:1-5). This leads us to value urging others to pray for our leaders.
• We believe that empathy motivates people to pray. Thus, we value promoting understanding among our members, so that they find themselves wanting to pray.
• We believe that our adversary is the Devil and his forces, and not people and their plans. Further, we believe that our adversary is actively attempting to undermine us. Thus, we value spiritual quickness to perceive the spiritual battle in which we are engaged.
• We believe that hiring talented online ministers, who have various skills in the online delivery of motivational content, allows us to pioneer a highly specialized ministry on a digital frontier. This leads us to value talent-focused hiring.
• As a non-denominational Christian ministry, The Presidential Prayer Team believes that the prayers of its members can transform the nation. We believe this because of four key things: God and the Bible as well as People and the Mission.

God and the Bible:

• We believe there is only one God, eternally existent in three persons of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
• We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ and the redemptive and reconciling work of his sacrificial death and resurrection.
• We believe in the Holy Spirit and His life-giving work in the world to fulfill the purposes of God.
• We believe that God exists and that the Bible is His Word. It is the inspired Word of God and the only document to be vested with such divine authority. We believe its instructions and principles to be the guide of our individual lives.
• What we believe is based on the Bible, but there are many important things in the Bible that may not be within the scope of our work.
• We believe the work of evangelism and discipleship to be that of the church, and as such, it is not the primary mission of this ministry.

These values and this vision form the current mission of the Presidential Prayer Team:

• Through strategic investments in staff and technology growth, we will expand the reach of The Presidential Prayer Team throughout the country to see us aggressively grow the active number of praying members of the Prayer Team.
• We will consistently re-evaluate our activities to fine tune our efforts toward this growth projection. While content production will be important, we will increasingly focus on the tools needed to get more people to pray and keep them praying.
• We will draw our membership into a relationship with us, always targeting having at least half of our members involved in some way beyond being passive recipients. This will include: sharing comments, engaging their friends to pray, giving a gift in a 12-month period, being an active giver, being a content contributor, being a major donor, and more.

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Financial Accountability

The Presidential Prayer Team is firmly committed to good stewardship of funds entrusted to us by our friends and donors. We promise to use your gifts wisely and effectively in Christ’s name. We are a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability.

The Presidential Prayer Team is fully registered and in compliance with charitable solicitation laws in all 50 states. We meet all annual reporting and transparency requirements to ensure integrity and accountability in our operations.

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Public Disclosures

2024 IRS 990 Filing (PDF)
2023 IRS 990 Filing (PDF)
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