Sample Prayer Coordinator Job Description

This is a sample job description, to give you some ideas for creating your own Prayer Coordinator Job Description. Our sample is quite detailed, and sets a very high standard for the position. Your church may have different needs.

Job title:  Church-wide prayer coordinator

Reports to:  Senior Pastor

Department:  Worship and Arts

Classification: Part-time Staff

Job summary: 

The prayer coordinator is a member in good standing with ________ Church, whose purpose is to organize, schedule, and provide general leadership for the church’s prayer activities.

Prerequisite qualifications:

A.  Membership:  Must be an active member and financial supporter of ________ (having attended the membership class).  

B.  Experience: Two years church attendance at ________ and served on the prayer action team for one year.

Skills, knowledge, abilities, qualifications:

• A love and devotion to prayer
• Ability to lead, organize, and delegate
• Well-grounded in the Word of God
• Ability to teach and train others in prayer
• Ability to facilitate small groups and corporate prayer
• Ability to listen, think clearly and creatively (good judgment)
• Ability to work with people individually and in a group (a team player)
• Sensitivity to different cultures and tolerance of differing theological views
• Friendly and patient approach (non-reactive) to disagreements and differences of opinion
• A committed and caring person
• Flexible attitude and a willingness to learn
• Moral purity, honest with a sense of Christian values
• Spiritual maturity with the ability to give good Christian counsel
• Willing to take direction from immediate supervisor

Duties, Tasks, Responsibilities:

• Pray for and promote opportunities for others to pray for (church name)
• Develop a prayer action team (under Senior Leadership Team approval)
• Develop and train the Pastor’s Intercessory Teams (P.I.T. Crews)
• Establish and maintain a prayer room
• Conduct training on prayer
• Assist senior pastor in facilitating weekly staff prayer meeting
• Oversee small group and corporate intercessory prayer meetings
• Organize days of corporate prayer and fasting (quarterly)
• Conduct “Time with God” personal prayer retreats
• Mobilize strategic prayer for emergencies and in times of crisis
• Conduct all-night prayer meetings as scheduled
• Train, oversee, and maintain the altar prayer ministry team
• Train and resource all department heads to lead and maintain prayer in their respective areas
• Link (church name) with local, national, and international prayer initiatives

(Signed and dated by Pastor and Prayer Coordinator)