Prayer Stations

Prayer Stations are a gift and vision from God, who inspired Byron Ravenell and Georgia Hood to write it down and carry it to the nations. The two had never met before, but shared two things in common; they both were full of the Holy Ghost and attended prayer services at the same location, Samaritan Baptist Church in Trenton, New Jersey.

Byron Ravenell was the Minister of Music of Samaritan Baptist church. Georgia Hood, an evangelist at Grace Cathedral Fellowship Ministries, had begun a City Wide Women's Prayer Meeting that met at Samaritan on the first and third Saturdays of each month. God spoke to Evangelist Hood and said, "go tell the Ravenells that I have need of this church." After speaking those words to Evangelist Mary Ravenell, she responded, "and I have need of Him." There was an automatic spontaneity and a commitment to move forward. The prayer started on the first Saturday of November 2000. God had the power of synergy in mind, to birth a vision that would take two to stand in agreement and run with it.

God was doing wonderful things through the prayer meetings and the Holy Spirit began to move in a new direction at Samaritan Baptist Church. Beginning January 2001, Evangelist Ravenell testified that services were never the same. Yet God still wanted to do more.

One Saturday morning at the prayer meeting, Evangelist Hood asked the women to share with the group what was in their hearts and what they want the group to pray for. The women all shared their concerns and there were many common themes; their families, children, finance, health and so forth. One woman wept when she shared her concern about abuse towards children. She touched the hearts of the ent