The Prayer Hub will provide features that will be of use to organisations of all sizes and geographical spreads.
Our discussions with numerous Churches and ministries have identified 4 features that they would want:
- The ability to share prayer needs, news, events and information with a broad base of identified potential pray-ers/supporters - locally, nationally and (later) internationally.
- Fast and easy updating alongside any other social media channels.
- A managed social media style Like page without the vulnerabilities of the mainstream providers.
- Posts / articles can be shared across user type(s), geographical proximity and selected (default) countries.
There are 3 types of website user -
- Public / Site visitor - a casual user who does not register.
- Registered User - these are people who register and provide contact name, postcode (for geo-location purposes), optional mobile or landline phone number and email address.
- Prayer Team members - people who additionally provide full home address and a church leader reference contact detail. Once cleared, they become 'Prayer Partner' members.
Other features for organisations:
- A forum for publishing articles, information, events, and prayer related news.
- A banner advertising feature, shared with other subscribing organisations.
- A signup tool for obtaining email signups from visitors.
- Site usage and subscriber stats.
- Secure connections where appropriate.
- Site feed RSS syndication.
The vision is for this to be a service to the Christian community and every possible step will be taken to make the service accessible and affordable to everyone.