Many Christians feel called to intercede for their neighbors, and even the larger communities of towns, cities, counties, states, and even countries. But often those localities and people end up as abstract concepts prayed in the context of our private prayer closet. And while private prayers can be effective, Kendrick and Hawthorne point us to a prayer ministry that is at once more stimulating and more effective. They call us to a ministry firmly planted (literally) in the community God has placed us in, a ministry that is in touch with the pulse of the community because it is, in itself, part of that same community.
