Sorry for ugly formatting. Will work on that in near future.We are attempting to bring churches into this beautiful movement. Together through Christ we have endless potential
Section 1: The Vision
The Prayer Garden was envisioned by Ryan Slechta in April 2021 after God impressed upon his heart to create a safe Christian place for Christian members of Communities.win, now Scored, to gather. God brought together a solid core team of people from all over the United States and even one from Germany to create the Prayer Garden. From its humble beginnings, the Prayer Garden reached 500 members by October 2021 but its original home on Discord was deleted due to violating Discord’s policy on “vaccine misinformation,” despite only giving information on religious exemptions. The group, shattered, moved to Guilded, where they accumulated over 100 members in 3 months before stepping out in faith and moving back to Discord. The Prayer Garden now has over 200 members again with a solid core of around 50 representing 25 US states, 2 Canadian provinces, and at least 6 nations around the world.
Our Vision is to conquer the world through Prayer. We aim to establish dedicated prayer teams in every church we can to pray for personal, local, national, and global issues. We are non-political and we will not attempt to influence or guide any church, except perhaps in and through prayer to the Almighty.
Our primary goal is to connect the global church, the sum of the Body of Christ, through prayer, fellowship, and oneness. Our goal is not to influence doctrine or politics. We are a grassroots movement of prayer warriors that seek only good and holy things. God needs a worldwide army of prayer warriors and churches that seek to do His will and perform His calling. God needs an army that will harvest the fields that are ripe with the harvest of billions. Our mission is to establish prayer teams in every nation and church to call upon His Name and spark a worldwide revival through the millions of prayers uplifted.
Our secondary goal is to raise up a newer and younger generation of church leaders. We, the newest generations, grew up online, and many Christian teens, no matter how solidly grounded, were led astray by the world. That is why the Prayer Garden was founded, to draw them back to Christ using a common medium and an edifying mission. As the generation of great men of God fades into obituaries, a new generation must rise to bear the torch and lift His Name on High!
These goals serve only to praise, uplift, and magnify the name of Jesus. From the impossible comes a miracle when God is involved. Thus, from our unlikely beginnings and disjointed formative period, we have faith that Christ will bless us and bless the world through our prayers and love. Our vision is that of the Early Church. Establish Christ’s Divine Truth in every place, evangelize those who do not know Christ as their personal savior, and prepare the Earth as a bride does for their groom when Christ returns for the Second Coming. In doing so, we will defeat Satan every step of the way, for we are backed by the One who created all and orchestrates all for His Glory!
What is our mission, then? We have 7 tasks God gave us.
Bring together churches and youth groups using online media like Discord(for now)and communities.win. Promote and gather together Christian businesses. Make a worldwide network of congregations to form a Church that can stand in the End Times (which we are rapidly entering), and harvest the fields for Christ. Produce and release Christian content, such as flyers, tracts, memes, and books. Find and partner with existing Christian ministries that are active in the battlegrounds of film production, politics, and social work in order to support and uplift them and the ministry. Bring Christians together from all walks to life to share testimonies and prayers, to bring fellowship back into the Body of Christ. Utilize internet technology to create a global network for Christ.
Our original mission statement
The Church has strayed far from the path Christ directed it towards when He ascended to heaven. We went from well-connected and interconnected churches to disparate denominations and inter-church fighting over doctrine and dogma. Now, more than ever, it has become apparent that the church must begin to take a more active role in the culture and society. Not just in the United States, but worldwide.
We are directed to be the Salt and Light of the world, to defend the faith against satanic-occupied bastions. We have the word which is like a two edge sword. We have been given a shield, which is faith. We have been given all the armor and weapons we need to vanquish Satan, but we became complacent.
This is largely due to our decadent and free lifestyle. Our freedoms are guaranteed, right? Right? Not anymore! While the Church mired in doctrinal and dogmatic battles, they were slowly restricted by the worldly doctrine of separation of church and state. This neutered the Church's options to be politically active, and has resulted in the systematic destruction of our heritage and values. When Christians aren't fighting, the devil can just walk in and occupy.
This needs to end. The internet has given us a powerful tool to transcend denominational boundaries and strengthen the bulwarks against the enemy, so we can push back out and retake the world for Christ! We are not restricted anymore by distance from like-believing churches. We can connect, instantly, over the internet.
Discord, Scored, and other platforms are highly useful and applicable for connecting Churches because they cater to the newest generations and can be easily learned. Pastors and youth alike can easily join and share their testimonies with a worldwide network of Believers. Prayer requests can be submitted and instantly, congregations all over the world can pray together about it. If two people gathered in the name of Jesus can affect the world, how much more so can millions?
Let us escape the stresses of the world and come together as children of God, and enter the Garden to pray. Pray for our lives, pray for our jobs, our kids, our communities, and our world. Pray for our soldiers and politicians. Pray for our farmers and doctors. Pray for our friends and our enemies. Pray and watch for the impending coming of Christ. Our work is far from over. The fields are overwhelmingly white with the ripest harvest of souls we can imagine. We must engage the enemy and drive them out! Drive them out of our churches, our schools, our government buildings! Drive Satan’s minions out of the Earth and back to Hell where they belong!
Section 2: Statement of Faith
We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth, of all things visible and invisible. We believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages. God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father; through him all things were made. For us His creation and for our salvation he came down from heaven, and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and became man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate, he suffered death and was buried, and rose again on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no end. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets. We believe in the In-erring, Immutable, and Timeless Word, which was written by holy men under the Holy Spirit’s command, the words of which are eternally true and the basis for all morality, ethics, scruples, and standards. We believe in one, holy, universal and apostolic Church. We confess one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins and we look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen.
Section 3: Prayer Teams
Ideally, local church prayer teams consist of 5-10 dedicated prayer warriors that meet at least twice a month in a prayer meeting. These prayer meetings will be ideal avenues for the Unlimited Authority and Power of God to invade Earth and release blessing, healing, and prosperity.
Prayer teams will have a designated Prayer Team Lead, who can be the Seed Planter, but we prefer the church’s designated prayer leader if they have one. All other members will be considered Prayer Warriors. At the moment, we communicate using various forms of social media, including Discord and Scored/Communities.win, and the members of the prayer team will be requested to have some sort of presence in at least one of our online hubs.
Prayer Team Leads communicate prayer requests to whoever is immediately up the hierarchy, whether that is a County, Metro, or State Coordinator. Prayer requests may be published daily in the Prayer Garden’s many prayer request channels for global prayer teams to intercede and war against Satan.
Ideally, a prayer team is mainly composed of young adults that are “on fire for the Lord.” This demographic is best because they understand modern society, culture, and trends, and can better pray for global healing and take the battle directly to the gates of Hell to keep Satan out of Earth!
Section 4: Local Church Network
As believers, we believe in the primacy of the local church as a member of the Body of Christ, that being the worldwide, apostolic, and holy Church that Christ’s Apostles and Disciples established. Churches that have been for whatever reason corrupted by the influences of the Satan-dominated (until now) world must be guided back into the Kingdom of God. There is no reason why any Christian or any Christian church claiming to follow Christ should be errant regarding the doctrines, truths, and declarations of the Living Word of the Bible. The Bible, specifically the Grace manifested and freely bestowed by Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, is the final answer to all questions of morality, ethics, and living standards, and is never contradictory or erroneous.
We no longer live under a Covenant of Law. We now live under a Covenant of Grace. The modern Church should therefore not operate under the Law, or under any law of mankind that contradicts the Bible, blasphemes or mocks God, or attempts to ban God. Compromise towards man is blasphemy towards God.
That being established by numerous scriptures, the Local Church Network (LCN) is the network of prayer teams in local churches of a town, city, suburb, or other locality. The LCN will be the main source of unity early on, as churches learn to work together through united prayer on God’s Big Projects across denominational divides.
The local churches are not required to adhere to our specific statement of faith, as many denominations have differing doctrines. We are open and loving, however, as Christ commands us. Our statement of faith is God-given and defines the goals of the Prayer Garden. However, the local churches are expecting to embody Christ in their local community, and, when taken as a whole, embody Christ in wider scales including worldwide. The Christ Church, established in the Upper Room, certainly continues to this day, worldwide, and it is time the local churches stopped being isolated and started realizing the infinite freedom when Christians work, pray, and harvest together.
Section 5: Bigger than Ourselves
God has commanded us to do things we cannot do ourselves or even as a group. Things that only God can do. When you are impressed to do something and you know you can’t do it yourself, that means God wants to bring glory to Himself through you. For the Prayer Garden, that mission is uniting the Church in a macroscopic network, one that covers the world in a web of prayer and faith.
In order to organize such a monumental task, we have been led by the Holy Spirit to establish a hierarchy to smoothly delegate responsibility from local churches, to the county/municipality or metropolitan area, to the state or province, to the region (in some countries), to the nation, and finally to the world. The generalized tiers are thus as follows:
Prayer Garden Network Leaders
National Coordinators
Region Coordinators (some countries)
First-level administrative region (State, Province, Oblastc etc)
Second-level administrative region (County,
Municipality, Metropolitan Area, etc)
Local Church Network
Local Church
There is no progression-based movement here. As an example, if the Lord directs a prayer team leader to grow from leading a single prayer group to leading a county or metro network (potentially hundreds of prayer groups), and the elders and peers (including their spouse) come in agreement, they will be elevated to that position since God ordained it for such a time as the present harvest.
Of course, whoever is elevated to “the next level” will still lead or participate in their church prayer team. This will be the case even on a national level. Thus, some churches may become influential simply by God elevating their members to a higher responsibility in the world. These churches won’t be the face of the various divisions of the Prayer Garden Network, and certainly there will be many denominations represented as one moves upward.
The coordinators of the 5th-tier networks will together pray and select 7 members of connected churches who adhere the most closely to 1 Timothy 3:1-7 (KJV given):
This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. This will be repeated by the 4-tier leaders in their turn in regards to selecting leaders for regional or national coordination positions.
I remember the garden, I was a member on discord before it got the axe
Well hello fren. Yeah it's been a long journey yet we are still going strong. Let me know if you ever wanna come back. Brick by brick we are building it up. Feel free to share any feedback you may have. Have a blessed day