Praying is open to anyone — logged in or not — and it does two things: it's a real commitment you can make for the people affected by a disaster and the organizations responding to it, and it lets survivors see, in a real number on the page, that people across the country are praying for them.
- On a disaster's page, look for the prayer count (for example, "🙏 47 People Praying") and the Commit to Praying card in the sidebar.
- Click I'm Praying.
- Optionally add:
- Your Zip/Postal Code — used only to show your general location on the prayer map. It's fuzzed with a random offset of a couple of miles before it's stored, so it can't be used to pinpoint you.
- A short Message of encouragement (up to 500 characters).
- Your Email Address, if you're not logged in.
- Submit.
Once at least a couple of people have prayed for a disaster, a toggle appears on the map letting anyone overlay prayer pins alongside the response pins — a visual reminder, right on the map, that people are praying for the response.