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.

Jimmy Y. -- Prayer Candidate 175

Jimmy is 50 years old and is a native of Cheyenne, Wyoming. He spent 34 years as a welder and worked off the coast of Louisiana on an offshore oil rig for Phillips Petroleum for 3 years. When a pipe he was welding on the platform exploded, it caused severe nerve damage to his leg and knee. He was hospitalized in Louisiana for 8 months. After being released he came to Birmingham with someone he met in the hospital looking for work. Jimmy has spent the 4 years since his accident homeless, living in a camp by the railroad tracks downtown for the last 3 years.

Jimmy has a strong relationship with the Word and draws his strength from it’s power. He has several prayer requests, beginning with his prayer that, “Everyone will get their lives re-directed and realize why we are all here.” He asks you to pray for healing for his knee and his lungs, and also the challenges he faces from alcohol addiction. He prays to be able to return to Wyoming one day to work on a ranch and be with his daughter who lives there.

Click on the envelope below to email this prayer request to a friend.

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.