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Prayer Request Form
A prayer request form has one design problem worth getting right: some requests are for the whole church to hear, and some are for two people to hold quietly. The form has to ask which, before anything else.
For churches, parishes and religious communities.
Public or private is the first question, not the last
The worst possible outcome is a private request read aloud on a Sunday. That happens when the form collects a request and leaves the decision to whoever types up the notices.
So this template asks explicitly: may this be shared with the congregation, with the prayer team only, or with one person? It's a required question, and the answer travels with the request - so nobody has to guess. Names can be left out entirely, which is what makes people ask at all.
A contact form that saves a round trip
"Get in touch" invites a message with nothing in it. Two or three well-chosen questions turn the same enquiry into something you can answer properly on the first reply.
That's the whole design here: short enough that people write in, specific enough that you don't have to ask what they meant.
Volunteers, prayer requests and pastoral care
Most of what a church collects is sensitive in a way ordinary business forms aren't: a prayer request, a pastoral concern, a safeguarding detail. The form has to be easy for a 76-year-old on a phone and private enough to be trusted.
These pages carry no trackers and no cookie banner, so nothing is watching a person who came to ask for help. Responses go to whoever you nominate and nowhere else.
It loads instantly
One self-contained page, no framework, no fonts to fetch. On a phone that is the difference between a message sent and a tab closed.
Yours to change, immediately
Nothing here is fixed. Rewrite a question, reorder them by dragging, add your brand colour, delete half of it. Save and the live form updates - there's no separate publish step and no deploy to wait for.
What this template asks
- Your name
- Email address
- Who may see this request?
- Who is this for?
- What would you like us to pray for?
- Is this urgent?
- The names in my request may be used when praying aloud
- I'd like someone to contact me as well
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Questions
Can people submit without giving a name?
Yes - the name is optional here, and nothing else about a visitor is recorded: no IP address, no account, no tracking. That is often the difference between a request being made and not.
Can we use the responses for the weekly notices?
Filter or export the ones marked as shareable and you have your list. Keep the private ones out of any document that circulates.
Will I get spam?
Far less than a published email address. Every form carries a hidden trap field that automated submitters fill in and humans never see, and those submissions are silently discarded.
Can I send messages to a shared inbox?
Yes. Notifications go to a list of addresses you choose, so a team alias works as well as one person.
Can I add this to my website?
Link to it from anywhere - a button, a nav item, a footer. It's a normal page with its own URL, so no embedding or code is required.
Can we route sensitive requests to one person only?
Yes. Notification recipients are a list you choose, so a pastoral form can reach one named person rather than a general office inbox.
Publish your prayer request form today
Start from this template and change anything you like. Free to begin.