First United Methodist Church has an active prayer ministry with a team of people who will pray for you. Prayer requests are kept private, within this small group of individuals. James 4:3 "When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures." (New International Version) Prayer helps us to begin thinking God's thoughts and "...to letting go of our will whenever it conflicts with the will and way of God." (Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster)