I inquired about a prayer tracking / journal module some time ago, and there did not seem to be one then. Yesterday I was reminded:
Revelation chapter 8: Doctrine of Sovereignty - God connects our prayers to His plan. Some things God only does when we pray for them to happen. Coals from the alter outside (representing the death of Christ Jesus) ignite the prayers of the saints... as according to John 14:6b (NKJV) "No one comes to the Father except through Me."... then the Father in Heaven according to James 1:17 (NKJV) "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning." Puts fuel on the fire to Ask/Seek/Knock (Matthew 7:7-11) SPECIFICALLY so that the Father may answer SPECIFICALLY.
So, I am tossing the request out to the community again... in my mind a good way to track such would be a Drupal module for personal / group prayer tracking / journaling. Might be easiest to get started with the personal-only capabilities, then expand to group capabilities, where posts would be visible across Drupal ID's.
I would think it should have a prayer thread starter, then possibilities to come back to a previous prayer thread / topic and post and update to that thread with an additional post. Should have a thread overview view which would simply sort all the prayer threads by various attributes of the thread, and perhaps color code the thread yellow = Waiting on God, green = answered (either yes or no).
Should also have various print options to prepare prayer sheets... as prayer time is not to be equated with time at the computer! Perhaps prayer threads only, prayer threads with the most recent update to that thread, etc...
Anyone willing to collaborate on this module idea with me?
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Distro dreamin'
Hey mdlueck,
I recently got our house church network rolling on The Table Project—which isn't a Drupal-based or open-source solution at all—but does include an interesting "prayer wall" module (the developers who wrote The Table call them "apps" to stay current with the kids).
Now, i consider this far, far from perfect, but it is:
If i had loads of money and time on my hands to throw around, i would try to wrangle together some devs to create a distribution of Open Atrium 2 which synthesizes the very best ideas of products like The Table Project, The City, and others, creating a far better and more flexible solution than these one-size-fits-all options. I can imagine a distro such as that being a huge benefit to the Church. That solution would most certainly include a prayer tracking mechanism.
I'm just about 100% sure this doesn't address your reason for posting, but i thought i'd throw out a couple of cents for whatever they're worth.
I'd definitely be interested
I'd definitely be interested in collaborating. We've been working on "Prayer Walls". It came from a prayer wall discussion forum on phpbb we had a while ago. It was a fantastic way of having 2-way prayers within a community where they were almost like discussions and great for inputting prayers but not so much for reading prayers. We wanted to find some way that made consuming those prayers easier which would do a few things: 1) Bring people into the online prayer community that may be less technically able (I did a master project into looking at people over 65 in this) and 2) connect online prayer and art. I think artistically visualising prayers and worship are intrinsically tied.
Anyway we've tried to release things in the past and we have this so far: http://wall.prayerforsutton.org/about
Regarding the "Open Atrium 2" we have something called "Partyopoly" at the moment and Open CRM. http://yanniboi.wordpress.com/2013/10/31/partyopoly-intro/
My expectation is that this stuff will really work well once built on top of Drupal 8 (we're making extensive use of Drupal 8 style features which is making the code a little complicated but will be greatly simplified when we get into drupal 8). However our goal is to make a module, flexible, open source church management system that can be a platform for churches to eventually move into more dynamic community based church websites.
We're waiting on a church (that can afford) to work with us. There is one on its way hopefully but if anyone wants to chat with us further I'd be happy to do that!
Prayer 'group'
It seems to me that Organic Groups in Drupal 7 would be a good fit. Though I am not certain of all the needs OG is highly configurable and with additional modules might far exceed your needs. If you're not real comfortable with OG for D7 you could start with Drupal Commons.
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