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The Prayer Covenant

Inviting the World to Pray

New Albany, OH   |  theprayercovenant.org

Mission

Making disciples among the children and youth of the nations.

Notes from the nonprofit

We strive to serve Jesus, our partners and the children around the world with excellence. God has given us a vision to reach every child - approximately 2 billion - with His love and grace. We want children to know the value God has placed on them and to find their identity and purpose in Jesus Christ. We believe through strong partnerships with other ministries - working together in unity and community - God will allow us to continue to increase our global reach. Prayer is foundational to any movement of God, and He continues to do above and beyond all we could ask, think or imagine as we remain faithful to what He has called us to do. Note our name change from The 40 Day Prayer Covenant to The Prayer Covenant in 2018 as reflected in IRS doc attached at the top of this page.

Ruling year info

2013

President CEO

Candy Marballi

Main address

PO Box 281

New Albany, OH 45034 USA

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EIN

46-1517204

NTEE code info

Christian (X20)

Christian (X20)

Christian (X20)

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Communication

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Programs and results

What we aim to solve

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Youth are leaving the church in droves. They say "God is missing from my church experience." "My experience of Christianity is shallow." They're confused about their identity and long for purpose in their lives. The number 1 reason children stuck with their faith through adulthood is that they were surrounded by an intergenerational faith community that nurtured their relationship with Jesus Christ. (See "Sticky Faith" by Dr. Powell and Clark). The Prayer Covenant is a proven, field-tested, prayer strategy that nurtures a child's relationship with Jesus by guiding them through Christ-centered prayer and getting them on the prayer journey. It is a power that empowers discipleship, transformation and evangelism. The more time kids spend with Jesus, the more they become like Him and receive His heart for those around them. Our goal is to raise children strong in their faith, who find their identity and purpose in Jesus Christ and become world-changers.

Our programs

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?

SE Asia Prayer & Discipleship for Children

Training leaders with a focus on discipling children in prayer and evangelism. Helping lead translation work for SE Asia which will provide the needed resources to minister in different countries in that region. Ten nations: Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, East Timor, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia

Population(s) Served
Children
Preteens

This curriculum offers 10 lessons that teach character building as well as teaching children how to pray and share their faith. It takes them through ten themes: grace, love, compassion, repentance, worship, commitment, dependence, influence, discipleship and authority using Bible stories, songs, experiential games and worksheets. We are currently in 71 nations worldwide and have impacted over 7 million children and youth.

Population(s) Served

Running on the African continent in partnership with The Prayer Covenant and All Africa Baptist Fellowship, is LQE, a student-designed, student led outreach throughout 36 nations on the African continent. Over 12k churches participate in evangelistic outreaches using printed gospel prayer cards and flyers as well as digital. Over 200k children and youth participate and have touched over 5 million with the Gospel. Over 300k made decisions to follow Jesus. Please see: https://vimeo.com/504131790

Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Children and youth

Where we work

Awards

Illumination Book Awards Gold for The Power of the Prayer Covenant for Kids 2015

Illumination https://www.illuminationawards.com/

Affiliations & memberships

ECFA Members, GACX Members 2019

Our results

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.

Number of teachers recruited

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Population(s) Served

Age groups

Related Program

The Prayer Covenant for Children Curriculum

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Holding steady

Context Notes

Training volunteer leaders within a country to lead the ten-week Prayer Covenant training for children.

Number of children globally discipled using The Prayer Covenant curriculum.

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Population(s) Served

Multiracial people, People of African descent, People of Asian descent, People of European descent, People of Latin American descent

Related Program

The Prayer Covenant for Children Curriculum

Type of Metric

Input - describing resources we use

Direction of Success

Holding steady

Goals & Strategy

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.

Charting impact

Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.

We want to equip churches, church leaders, families, and missionaries with an effective resource to reach children with the gospel and disciple them in their walk with Jesus.

The Prayer Covenant has created a simple but effective prayer strategy that not only teaches children to pray and share their faith with others, but also nurtures their relationship with their Heavenly Father. Pastors, teachers and volunteers connect with children in their villages or regions through outreach events. During those events, which may include a showing of the Jesus movie, or during Sunday School or VBS, children are supplied with tools that can help them pray effectively--with and for others as well as share their faith. The Prayer Covenant 10 week (or 10 month) curriculum is packed with easy to use activities including Bible stories, Q&A, Bible experiential games, Coloring pages, memory verses, Worksheets and crafts.

A prayer card is provided in the child’s language which walks the child through the prayer. These prayer tenets include grace, love, compassion, repentance, worship, commitment, dependence, influence, discipleship and authority. Memory verses on the back of the card instill the biblical principles of prayer and the importance of hiding God's word in their hearts. Other resources include a book with the complete curriculum.

During the program, each child will learn:
The power of Christ-centered prayer
Who they are in Christ (identity)
The value Jesus has placed on them
Ways God can use them to be instruments of his grace, truth and justice
What it means to be a disciple of Jesus Christ and make disciples of those around them

Through engaging with indigenous leaders of many kingdom-focused denominations worldwide, we are able to achieve our mission. By partnering with locals we are able to work effectively cross-culturally and inter-denominationally. Children receive an average of twelve hours of training and discipleship through their time with a prayer coach. The child is guided through each of the ten biblical discipleship principles in a weekly Sunday School ministry, mid-week ministry or homegroup.

God has given us a vision to reach children across the globe so they can fully experience the power of prayer in their lives, their families and communities. Through pastors, children's leaders, volunteers and resources provided, we seek to help children discover their identity as a child of God and to call out to Him in prayer.
1. Training leaders to use our children's prayer resources within their ministries;
2. Providing all of our resources digitally for easy access any time, anywhere;
3. Translating our resources into major languages. We are up to 25 for all three major children's resources.
4. Building strategical partnerships with global ministries (e.g., Cru, Every Home for Christ, King's Kids International (YWAM), All Africa Baptist Youth Fellowship, Assemblies of God, Church of God of Prophecy, etc.
5. Social media to reach even more persons with the gospel and the mission of the Prayer Covenant.
Social media has exploded as we now have over 96k subscribers to the Prayer Covenant and 200k monthly engagements/video views. We have 1,300 coming to our website each month vs. 200 earlier this year.
6. Creating a Children's Prayer Covenant App to be released in October, 2021 that will allow children to work through the full curriculum on their handheld devices.

1. Creating children's resources and soon to be released by Hachette Publishing: He Hears Her Voice (The Prayer Covenant for Women) (April 5, 2022 between the Global Day of Prayer and the National Day of Prayer).
2. Online training of trainers video and a series of PCC videos created by the AOG to use online or in-person Sunday school classes.
3. Solid partnerships with mega ministries with the infrastructure to reach children.
4. A network of volunteer children's workers throughout Africa, Asia, Latin American and the USA.

The Prayer Covenant is thrilled to be partnering with GO Movement's children and youth track.
GO Movement/Decade is an evangelical outreach that will impact one billion men, women and children worldwide with the gospel and reach every last person on earth with the gospel by 2030. We believe children and youth are the greatest untapped harvest force and that the Prayer Covenant resources/ministry are helping disciple and release children as messengers of God's grace and love. We see it happening around the world as Prayer Covenant children are praying and sharing Jesus with their friends and family around the world. The Prayer Covenant for Children’s prayer cards and comic books will be one of the tools used in this initiative. In partnership with All Africa Baptist Youth Fellowship, in 2020, Last Quarter Evangelism was born and we had over 12k churches participate in youth designed/youth led outreaches mobilizing over 200k kids to pray and share their faith with over 5 million on the continent. Over 302k made decisions to follow Jesus and that was only the beginning! We are now gearing up for LQE beginning October 1st through December 31st of 2021. Please watch this video: https://vimeo.com/504131790 and please see: https://theprayercovenant.org/children-lqe/

We thrive on partnering with other ministries which provides the manpower and needed infrastracture on the ground in these countries. We have partnered with Campus Crusade for Christ in SE Asia - they are overseeing the vision of discipling children in prayer throughout ten nations including: Philippines, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, and East Timor to name a few. In addition, we have just partnered with leader overseeing the nation of India and China! We have partnered with Compassion International who are using our resources to minister to the sponsored children in Asia. We have partnered with Every Home for Christ who has helped us create beautiful gospel tracts for children called The Lost Sheep engager. See here: https://theprayercovenant.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/pcc_engager-1.pdf

In the last 7 years (2014 - 2021) over 7 million children and youth have been discipled throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and North America at an average cost of $.25 - $.50 per child in 71 nations.

Please watch: https://vimeo.com/548607200

In the coming years we anticipate that we will:
Continue to offer additional major translations of all of our children's resources. We have now 25 major languages in all 3 resources: Book, booklet and prayer card.
Continue to train thousands of leaders/volunteers.
Continue to build our social media presence.
Continue to develop new resources. Our new children's App is targeted to be released October, 2022 which will allow children to work through the entire curriculum on their hand-held devices. The App will include world-class animation (of each Bible story), Songs, Games and a place to journal who they are praying for.
The Prayer Covenant has over 96k FB followers; and over 200k engagements each month as well as over 200k video views every month.
We will continue to build strong partnerships in order to impact more children globally.

How we listen

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.

done We demonstrated a willingness to learn more by reviewing resources about feedback practice.
done We shared information about our current feedback practices.
  • How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?

    To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals

  • Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?

    We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback

  • What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?

    We don’t have the right technology to collect and aggregate feedback efficiently, It is difficult to find the ongoing funding to support feedback collection

Financials

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Operations

The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.

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The Prayer Covenant

Board of directors
as of 11/05/2024
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board chair

Vik Marballi

Candy Marballi

Ford Taylor

Bill Trick

Rachel Williamson

Vik Marballi

Koffi Kpomgbe

Jason Hubbard

Albert Aidoo

Jenni Colwell

Board leadership practices

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  • Board orientation and education
    Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes
  • CEO oversight
    Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No
  • Ethics and transparency
    Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes
  • Board composition
    Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes
  • Board performance
    Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Not applicable

Organizational demographics

SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 11/1/2024

Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.

Leadership

The organization's leader identifies as:

Race & ethnicity
Multi-Racial/Multi-Ethnic (2+ races/ethnicities)
Gender identity
Female, Not transgender
Sexual orientation
Heterosexual or Straight
Disability status
Person without a disability

Race & ethnicity

Gender identity

Transgender Identity

Sexual orientation

Disability

We do not display disability information for organizations with fewer than 15 staff.

Equity strategies

Last updated: 11/23/2020

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Data
  • We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
Policies and processes
  • We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
  • We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
  • We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
  • We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
  • We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.