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.

Gary L. - Prayer Candidate 158

Gary is 55 years old and was one of 8 children raised in the Zion City neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama. Gary struggled with school and dropped in and out of high school several times before becoming involved in a vocational program for carpentry. Gary has had several jobs including working 5 years for Bishop Bakery, 4 years for Queen/Restonic Mattress Company and 15 years off and on for Mosely Moving. He has 4 sons and a daughter from his first marriage and 1 daughter who is 12 from his second marriage. Gary became homeless after losing his wife unexpectedly from an aneurism four years ago. He also lost his parents in 2003 & 2004, and he lost a brother unexpectedly in the last few months.

Gary is very introverted and shy, and has suffered from chronic depression and alcoholism most of his adult life. He loves to spend time alone reading. Gary has been homeless for approx. the past 3 years and has entrusted caring for his daughter to his sister until he can overcome the diseases he struggles with. He is a quiet, gentle leader in the congregation at Church of the Reconciler who shows tremendous caring and compassion for others. For the past few years he has lived in an abandoned house, but through the help of volunteers and members of his Sunday School class Gary moved into public housing in February 2009. This is a huge step in his recovery process and he feels some anxiety about it. Gary works through temporary labor services as work is available. This requires him to be at the labor service office by 5 am each morning to stand in line for a chance to be sent out to work. Many days Gary waits but there is no work available.

Gary asks you to pray he will be re-united with several of his children he hasn't seen in the past few years, and that he will be able to re-build relationships with them. He also prays he will be able to get a car so he will have reliable transportation to get a better job.

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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.