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.

Kenny A. -- Prayer Candidate 174

Kenny is 46 years old and is originally from the Mulga neighborhood of western Jefferson County, Alabama. He has been homeless off and on for the past 20 years, and suffers from severe depression as a result of bi-polar disorder. “For many years I kept doing drugs to try and kill the pain I felt,” he shares. Kenny is now on mental health medication and working to live a drug free life. He is able to stay at an apartment in the Smithfield area near downtown part of the time.


Kenny is a very kind, quiet, shy person who has a strong daily relationship with God. He worries about a lot of things and asks you to help him by praying about several of them: Please pray he will be able to avoid going to places he shouldn’t be, pray he will be able to get out of debt (he still owes $300 on his uncle’s funeral), and pray his family will be able to come together. Kenny struggles each day to try and maintain a positive state of mind. “I just want to be happy,” he says, “but it feels like something is coming over me trying to keep me from being happy.” He feels it is his faith that will carry him through his struggle with depression. Kenny sums his hope up this way, “I know there is nothing God can’t do or fix.” He is grateful to those who are willing to walk with him through prayer.

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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.