Senior Citizens Offer Drive-Thru Prayer Service
The senior citizens of Memorial United Methodist Church in High Point, North Carolina are offering up a side order of faith with their new drive-thru prayer service.
Edith Southerland has told The Christian Post she presented the idea to her ministry group after reading about another church that had successfully executed the service. She said, “There’s such a need for prayer in these times that I thought we could have a drive-thru prayer.”
Those in the “Silver and Gold” ministry as they like to call themselves, because almost everyone is at least 60-years-old, meet every Tuesday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. – welcoming those in need of prayer.
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According to Southerland, volunteers would stand at the entrance of the church parking lot, holding up signs inviting residents to stop in for a chat and to pray.
Southerland told CP, the drive-thru prayer allowed her to “go outside the walls of the church as we are commanded to do.”
She added that she was “humbled” to be able to help those who had started to lose hope.
Reverend Jessie Keaton of Memorial United Methodist Church said there are many people faced with homelessness, family issues, those that are jobless – just a “number of mounting concerns that cause people to lose hope.”
Keaton told CP that she was “overjoyed to see these senior citizens come down every week to pray, because they have [such] a deep conviction for being available to people who are hurting and hopeless.”
“They let them [those hurting] know that there are people in the community who are there to help,” she added.
Keaton said that the group has been truly faithful and she is grateful to have the ministry as part of her church.
Reverend Jessie Keaton told CP that there were some weeks when the turn-out was not very high for the prayer service, but the “Silver and Gold” ministry felt that God wanted them to be a presence and to let the people in the community know that they were not alone.
