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.

Tamara Y. - Prayer Candidate 171

Tamara is 39 years old and grew up in the west end of Birmingham, Alabama. She was participating in Jr. ROTC at Jackson - Olin High School when she became pregnant and had her first child at the age of 17. She left school without graduating and began her journey into what has become a debilitating struggle with mental illness. Tamara suffers from extreme bi-polar disorder with psychosis. She has given birth to either 5 or 6 children since that time that range in age from 22 years old to 7 months. Most of these children are in the custody of other family members. Tamara was homeless during her last pregnancy and spent much of it living in shelters and abandoned buildings. Her baby daughter, Sierra, was taken into DHR custody at birth, because authorities determined Tamara was currently unable to care for her child adequately.

Since Sierra’s birth social workers have helped Tamara to get an apartment for people with disabilities downtown. She sees her daughter at regular visitations provided by DHR. She is attending parenting classes and hopes to someday be able to raise her daughter, who she misses terribly. Please pray that Tamara will be able to maintain staying in an apartment and be able to stay on her medication. Her specific prayer request is, “I want my mind, body and soul to be stable. I really want to be stable.” Also please pray for her baby and her other children who she is unable to be with.

Update:  Tamara rededicated her life to Christ and joined the church on Sunday, April 18th. She asks you to pray for her to overcome temptations that would lead her in the wrong direction as she works to build stability in her life. Also pray that she will be able to overcome the struggles of loneliness as she adjusts to life alone in an apartment.

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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.