Welcome to prayforthehomeless.org. This site offers you the opportunity to meet someone who is homeless and pray for them. We also include people who have recently been homeless and are in recovery from homelessness. They all have one thing in common: they need the power and blessings of your prayers. A small percentage of the homeless are able to stay in public shelters or other temporary accommodations for short periods, but the majority of these people sleep in abandoned buildings, warehouses or under bridges each night. We invite you to pick a different person to pray for each week and share this idea with a friend. This site is in the process of development. You can expect it to grow and change over the coming weeks and months. We invite your feedback and comments by email at prayforthehomeless@gmail.com.


We have added a feedback feature that allows you to click to indicate your committment to pray, write or email others. Providing this response will let others know which homeless have many people praying for them and which ones are still waiting for prayer. At the bottom of this page click on "OLDER POSTS" to see more homeless prayer candidates.

Pokey - Prayer Candidate 145

Pokey is very mentally disabled and has a severe speech impediment. This makes communication with him limited to trying to understand his basic needs. While we do not know his proper name or how old he is, we do know that Pokey is from Birmingham and has other mentally disabled relatives within the homeless community. He is a type two diabetic and does sometimes have seizures. His feet are severely diseased and may have to be amputated at sometime in the future. He lives on the street sleeping wherever he can find a dry place to lay his head and eats at Church of the Reconciler. Earlier in the fall he was attacked by a group of teenagers who had come downtown one night to victimize the homeless as a source of entertainment. He spent several days recovering from the assault in UAB Hospital. Please pray for Pokey’s health and safety.

Update:  Pokey collapsed on February 17th, at Church of the Reconciler and was taken away by ambulance. He has seizures several times a year.

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Additional Candidates

Candidates appear in the order they were entered, beginning with the newest candidates at the top of the page and the candidates who have been on the site the longest at the bottom of the page. Click on Older Posts to see more prayer candidates or Home to return to the first page. You can also search for a particular candidate by entering their candidate number or name in the Google Search Box at the bottom of the right hand column of this page. All prayer candidates on this site have been entered since November 2009.