Every St Pastor team is supported by a team of Prayer Pastors whilst on patrol, with whom the St Pastors are in regular contact, so that they can pray “informed” prayers. We have seen many examples of directly answered prayer, a few of which are listed below:
Another “impossible” situation solved by prayer
Before we went out on patrol one of our Prayer Pastors talked about our serving, giving to God was at a cost to us and that if it didn't cost us...
A miracle we didn’t know we needed
Sometimes when we ring in to the prayer pastors it can be difficult to know what to ask them to pray for - our team had an incident on our last...
Been there, done that?
When you've been a Street Pastor for a long time, you can make the mistake of believing you've seen and done it all, even to the point of thinking...
Answered Prayer – from a non-Prayer Pastor!
We were on patrol when we met one of our former Street Pastors walking home with his wife who hugged us and prayed that we would have at least one...
Sobered up……..by beer!
The prayer pastors had a call saying that there was a young guy behaving quite aggressively towards his group of friends outside a pub on the...
Knuckle dusters no challenge to God!
It was the last shift of the evening and the Street Pastors were informed that there was a car driving around the car park at Oceana with men...
“Did you just pray for me”?
We’d had a night when we had already offered healing prayer twice – once to a man who’d lost his epilepsy medicationhe said he felt dizzy as we...
A summary of our work….and prayer taking over a minute to be answered!
I was very touched by an incident from my last patrol, which in SO many ways sums up what we do We came across a middle aged lady collapsed in a...
Answered prayer
We have just spoken to a lady who wanted to thank Street Pastors. Her daughter was dying and street pastors prayed with her. Her daughter was out...
“Arrow” prayer answered
We were accosted by a middle-aged man who, in a slightly confrontational manner, asked if we could advise him. He was a service veteran and had been...
Does prayer work?
Well one of the many examples of answered prayer we’ve seen was in early December when we were called to help a very drunk young man who was...
Cooperation by prayer
We were trying to help a young lady who was sat in a bus stop being sick, but she simply would not do anything we suggested or asked her to do. She...
Drunk, Alone and Vulnerable
A Street Pastor team came across a young girl at 3.50 am. She was drunk, alone and vulnerable and whilst she knew that the taxi fare to her house...
Amazing answered prayer
We were called via CCTV to the Student Union where a young man had collapsed. Our efforts to assess the situation were severely hampered by people...
Complacency
Week after week and month after month we Prayer Pastors listen to requests and pray and it’s easy to become almost complacent about the incredible...
Answered prayer from 4 years ago!
We are delighted to have Anne with us as a St Pastor, who at age 86, returned to patrols recently, having had a few months break. After her first...
Coincidences?
On one night 2 teams separately found mobile phones. We’re pleased to say that both phones were reunited with their owners, one after a team had...
Fight avoided by prayer and persuasion
We were on the Barbican and decided to take a turn we hadn’t originally intended to. As we walked we saw two groups of people pass each other, but...
Our Father God taking care of us as we take care of others
It was just after 11 pm. We were on North Hill and became aware of two girls coming up behind us. We were a little concerned that they seemed quite...
More answered prayer
We were called over to help a very drunk student who was alone and couldn’t remember where she lived as it was her first night in Plymouth. She had...
Lost in Plymouth
A Street Pastor team found a girl alone and all she could remember was that she lived in Okehampton. She couldn’t remember how she’d arrived in...
Healing by Prayer
And from a Street Pastor – We were walking down North Hill when my knee suddenly began to get really painful as I walked and I felt as if it was...
Calming Prayer
From one of our team leaders. We saw and heard many answers of prayer as we phoned base for prayer. God was seen to heal relationships with couples...
Unexplained rapid recovery – via prayer & the recovery position!
It had been the quietest night I can remember. We have an observer with us and I, perhaps rashly, pray that something will happen on this shift to...