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.

Victor B. - Prayer Candidate 169

Victor is 46 years old and grew up traveling constantly with his parents who were in the U.S. Navy. He has been homeless off and on throughout his adult life, beginning in 1993 when he stayed on the street for 4 years. He went through a treatment program and then got married in 1999. Because both he and his wife suffered from addiction the marriage ended and he became homeless again. In 2005 Victor moved to California to make a new start and was doing well there. Unfortunately his mother suffered a stroke and a heart attack a few years later and he felt he needed to be the one to come home and care for her. He was able to find work here for a while before the economy turned in the wrong direction, causing his job to be eliminated.

While participating in the homeless day program at Church of the Reconciler Victor has become active in the Coalition for the Homeless and other support groups. In late February 2010 he accepted the opportunity to take a vacant house in bad repair in the Sherman Heights neighborhood and begin remodeling it. He is currently able to stay in the home and trade his labor for rent. Victor asks you to pray that his spiritual health will continue to grow and that he will be able to get work and have health insurance. He also asks you to pray, “That the homeless will be able to start businesses and create jobs for themselves.” Also please pray for his brother who is in prison.

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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.