CPC Email Prayer Chain

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Central is a large church that is continuing to grow. Praying for one another helps form us into a community and allows us to love and encourage one another in a powerful and meaningful way.

This is an email list of prayer requests, praise and progress reports for the people of Central Presbyterian, their friends and families, distributed via email. Our goal is to get prayer needs out to a large number of believers, (especially in urgent situations), but also enable us to share updates, praise and progress reports in a timely fashion.

Anyone can submit prayer requests. You don't have to be a list member.

If you are a member or attender at Central and would like to join the list as a pray-er, please read the following policies and procedures for the mailing list. They are set up in order to protect privacy, minimize spam and let the list run smoothly for all participants. If you agree to follow them, then use the Subscription form below.

Sandy Strawhand is the current list administrator. Contact her with any questions at prayer-request@centralpc.org.

Joining the Prayer Chain

The Short Summary - What You Must Agree to to Join the List

• Subscribers are limited to the Central community and must agree to abide by the list of guidelines.
• Requests on the list are confidential and should not be shared outside of Central.
• The prayer chain emails may not be forwarded in all or in part. (faq)
• List participants are asked to respect the sharing of sometimes-personal information, and to honor the trust implied by handling that information with care.
• List participants are asked to prayerfully consider each request sent and to pray, as God leads.

If you agree to follow these guidelines, use this subscription form to join the list.

Subscribe to Google Groups: cpc-prayer

Email address:

You will receive further emails from the list system to verify your email address, as the list administrator approves your joining, etc.

Note: This email list is implemented using Google Groups. If you use filtering or anti-spam software on your computer, you may have to set it to allow messages from that service and to allow emails from cpc-prayer AT googlegroups.com.

To unsubscribe, send an email to cpc-prayer-unsubscribe@googlegroups.com OR go to Google Groups: cpc-prayer and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page.

If you have any problems, please contact Sandy Strawhand, the current list administrator at prayer-request@centralpc.org.

Submit a Prayer Request

As mentioned in our policies, prayer requests may be submitted by email to prayer-request@centralpc.org or by telephone to the church office (410) 823-6145. All requests for prayer for individuals, families, groups, etc are welcome and follow-ups, whether relating to the continuing need for prayer, changes in status or praises about answered prayer are encouraged.

When you email us a prayer request, please include the following information, as appropriate.

• Your name
• Your email address
• Is this request for you or your immediate family?
• If not, do you have the person's permission to post this request?
• Should we use your name or just initials?
• The details of the request or situation needing prayer.

Anyone can submit prayer requests. You don't have to be a list member.

Policies & Procedures

These further details outline how the list will be run, how requests will be received, edited and distributed.

General

• Subscribers are limited to the Central community and must agree to abide by the list of guidelines.
• Requests on the list are confidential and should not be shared outside of Central.
• The prayer chain emails may not be forwarded in all or in part.
• The mailing list administrator will approve subscribers, receive requests, review & edit as necessary.
• Only the list administrator will be able to post directly to the list or see the list of subscribers. Email replies to the list will go only to the administrator and not to the whole list.

Submitting Prayer Requests

• Prayer requests may be submitted by email to prayer-request@centralpc.org or by telephone to the church office (410) 823-6145. All requests for prayer for individuals, families, groups, etc are welcome.
• Follow-ups are encouraged, whether relating to the continuing need for prayer, changes in status or praises about answered prayer.
• If you are submitting a request about someone else, tell us if you have their permission to use their name. Otherwise we'll have to check or just use initials.
• No chain letters, web-lore or urban myths will be accepted.
• Anyone can submit prayer requests. You don't have to be a list member.

Editing Prayer Requests to the List

• All prayer request posts will be reviewed by the list administrator and edited as necessary for brevity, confidentiality, priority, etc.
• Submissions may be edited or rejected if, in the list administrator's judgement, they cross the line into gossip, particularly for third party or anonymous submissions. When in doubt, identifying information will be removed.
• To preserve privacy when one person submits a request for another individual, possibly without that person's permission, all third-party requests will list initials only, with or without the requestor's name (unless the request specifically states that permission has been granted by the 3rd party) (i.e. with, as in AB neighbor of Jane Doe, needs prayer for an upcoming job interview" or without, as in "Pray for AB's upcoming job interview").
• Anonymous submissions will be accepted on a case-by-case basis. If such a request is deemed to be of a sensitive nature, all identifying information will be removed.
• If necessary for confidentiality, situational details and/or names may be reduced or removed from any submission.

Posting Prayer Requests to the List

• The list administrator will send the edited prayer requests out via the mailing list as they come in, but not more than once in a day. On average, you might receive 2 or 3 emails per week..
• Each request will be sent out only once, unless it is identified as an ongoing need (i.e. shut-ins or illness with prolonged recovery) or involves a future event with/without a set date (i.e. the building committee).

FAQs

How often will I get emails through this list?

Prayer requests will be sent out as they come in, but not more than once in a day. On average, you might receive 2 or 3 emails per week.

Can SPAM go out through this list?

No. We have carefully set up the list so that only the mailing list administrator may send emails through the list, approve people joining the list or see the list of subscribers. Email replies to the list will go only to the administrator and not to the whole list.

Who will be receiving these emails? How is that controlled?

Subscribers are limited to the Central community. Requests to join the list (subscriptions) must be approved by the list administrator before that person will receive any list emails.

Can I just forward one of these emails to someone I know?

Our policies that you agree to on joining this list are that:

• Requests on the list are confidential and should not be shared outside of Central.
• The prayer chain emails may not be forwarded in all or in part.

We ask that you strictly follow those and do not forward the emails to others outside the list, tempting as it may be. Personal information is sometimes shared through this list so only those who have agreed to follow its policies on careful handling of that information and who have been approved by the list administrator should receive the emails.

What's that "X-No-Archive:no" line in the emails?

Google Groups operates as an email list, but also has a website interface. That interface can save an archive of posts to the list. We do not want to keep an archive, so that line tells their system not to keep the emails more than a few days. Only list members can read the archive anyway.

See also:

• NV: An Email Prayer Chain for Central, 3/06