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.

Joe (Gator) S. Prayer Candidate 163

Joe is 51 years old and is an former dairy farmer from Ten Mile, Tennessee, half-way between Chattanooga and Knoxville. He and his family used to milk nearly 500 Jersey and Holstein cows each day. He has 11 children that are grown. Joe lives in a camp with 2 tents along the railroad tracks in downtown Birmingham. He provides shelter to others in the homeless community who need a safe place to stay; especially those with disabilities that most people would have a hard time coping with. He says God has given him a gift for working with disabled people. Joe experienced tremendous loss this January when a woman he had given shelter to in his camp, died unexpectedly of pneumonia during the cold weather.

Like many people in the homeless community, Joe has a job. He works for a tent and fence rental company that services large events all over the southeast. He sets up the fence for Alabama football games, the Crawfish Boil, and other type events all over the area.

Joe suffers from arthritis in his knees and ankles. His toes have  been frostbitten, so his toe nails come off every time it gets very cold outside. He is missing 5 toe nails right now. He has poor eye sight, and an old pair of bifocal glasses that need to be replaced very badly.

Joe has a tremendous relationship with his Creator, depending on God each minute of the day to guide him and provide for his needs. He asks that you pray for his health and that, “God will give me the strength to keep helping others like I do and keep me safe.”

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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.