Christians offered mobile prayer alerts<\/a><\/p>\nBritish Christians will be able to pray together wherever they are in future, by subscribing to a new mobile phone text alert service unveiled Thursday.<\/p>\n
A Christian charity, Prayer in Action, has teamed up with a mobile phone company to offer the Prayer Mobile service, which it hopes will eventually reach 500,000 people across the country.<\/p>\n
Subscribers will receive a text asking them to pray, simultaneously, on issues ranging from terrorism to homelessness and the credit crunch, said an official from the phone firm.<\/p>\n
“Within the next two to three years, this service will be offered to about 500,000 Christians,” said Erik Fok, sales chief of Ecumen, a range of religious products for mobiles developed by telephone company Teimlo.<\/p>\n
“With a world in turmoil, it’s amazing to think that we could soon have half a million people in the United Kingdom alone joining in focused prayer on an issue of national concern.<\/p>\n
“This will be a force for positive change in our nation,” he added.<\/p>\n
Prayer in Action boss Carl Brettle added: “In a world of uncertainty it’s great to know that the (service) will be able instantly to mobilise thousands of people to pray into the key issues that face society today.<\/p>\n
“The Prayer Mobile text service pulls together one of the oldest traditions known to mankind with one of the newest most prevalent technologies available. Prayer is only a text away,” he said.<\/p>\n
Last year Teimlo offered downloads of the Bible for mobile phones.<\/p>\n
The Prayer Mobile service will cost 25 pence (0.49 dollars, 0.32 euro) a week, for which subscribers will receive a regular weekly alert.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n
That’s in the UK. Why can’t I do it here? And at no cost to subscribers?<\/p>\n
And why don’t any US cellular phone companies offer Bible downloads? (Or do they and I’m just not up to speed on the curve?)<\/p>\n
Would you subscribe to such a service?<\/p>\n
PS: Notice among the categories Yahoo! chose for this story is this one: off beat<\/i>. \ud83d\ude44<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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