Chicago Tribune reports on 24-7 Prayer Room in Bolingbrook Hospital

Published: May 7th, 2008

The Chicago Tribune is featuring a story this week about a 24-7 Prayer Room running in a Christian Hospital in Chicago...

Bolingbrook Hospital is part of the Adventist Hospital network in the Mid-West of the USA.  The Doctors and nurses offer prayer alongside medical treatment and train volunteers as chaplains.  This week, taking their prayers and care even further, the staff have dedicated their ground floor chapel to 24-7 Prayer.

“Hour by hour, the prayers seemed to take on a weight and importance all their own.There were prayers for kindness and for acceptance, for resolve and, of course, for love. Scripted on notecards or hastily scribbled on walls, these were the innermost wishes of mothers, fathers and children at Adventist Bolingbrook Hospital on Monday, part of a continuous chain of prayer and reflection that will go around the clock for seven days.” Writes Joel Hood.

“Rosalyn Johnson prayed for the healing of broken fathers, who, in turn, might mend their broken children. Dr. Yong Kim prayed for the strength of his patients during difficult times. One note read simply: "God, I love my mom. Please make her well."The continuous worship is a small piece of a larger 24-7 Prayer movement that is growing in popularity in the United States and globally. With its emphasis on disciplined, communal worship, 24-7 Prayer has been particularly successful at luring young men and women of faith who've rejected the sometimes rigid confines of the church, organizers said…

In an era when church membership is in decline, 24-7 Prayer offers something different.”

Our very own Wendy Andrews from 24-7 USA contributes, "It's astonishing the number of people who believe in prayer… Even for those who profess Christianity, not all of us have prayer as a priority. It's sort of a foreign concept for a lot of us."

The US based international daily "USA Today" also featured a short article on the Bolingbrook Hospital prayer room.


Read Joel Hood’s full article on the Chicago Tribune website.  You can also find out more about how you can run a 24-7 Prayer Room in your church, school or work place.

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