A Capstone Practicum in Building a Comprehensive Prayer Strategy
Register NowDates
June 29 – August 23, 2026
Time
Mondays, 7:00 – 8:00 PM
Format
Online Course
Sessions
8 Weeks
Credit Hours
3.0 Credit Hours
Prerequisite
BIB280 and/or BIB380
Certificate Course Online
$197.00
Non-University Credit
3.0 Credits
$1,395
For University Credit*
This capstone course brings everything together — equipping you to build and launch a complete prayer strategy for a church, ministry, or organization.
Drawing on the foundations from your first two courses, you’ll learn to assess spiritual culture, develop leadership structures, and design strategic initiatives that spark sustainable, organization-wide prayer movements. You’ll discover how to strengthen prayer support for leaders and ministries while targeting breakthrough in the areas that may be holding back your church’s mission and God-given vision.
Through guided instruction, real-world case studies, and hands-on weekly strategy development, you’ll create a fully integrated prayer strategy tailored to your own ministry context. Each week builds on the last, culminating in a final Prayer Strategy Portfolio you can put to work right away — complete with your assessment, leadership structures, prayer initiatives, implementation plans, and communication systems.
As the culmination of the Prayer Leadership Certification program, this course sends you out ready to lead transformational prayer in real ministry environments.
Each week brings focused, practical training you can apply immediately in your context.
Assess Your Spiritual Climate
Learn to read the prayer culture of a church, ministry, or organization — identifying the strengths, barriers, leadership dynamics, and spiritual challenges that shape how prayer grows.
Develop a Comprehensive Prayer Strategy
Build a complete, tailored prayer strategy for your church or organization, grounded in biblical, theological, and leadership principles.
Design Leadership Structures & Mobilization Systems
Create the leadership structures, prayer teams, and mobilization systems that sustain corporate prayer ministry over the long haul.
Create Strategic Prayer Initiatives
Design prayer initiatives that align with your organizational goals, ministry seasons, and community needs — and aim for breakthrough where it's needed most.
Build Systems That Last
Develop practical systems for communication, training, implementation, and accountability that keep your prayer ministry healthy and growing.
Present & Defend Your Strategy
Pull it all together into a professional Prayer Strategy Portfolio, and demonstrate your readiness to present and defend a complete strategy in a real ministry context.
This course is designed for anyone ready to grow in prayer leadership — no matter where you are in your journey.
Cheryl Sacks
Instructor
Cheryl Sacks is the best-selling author of The Prayer Saturated Church (NavPress), a widely respected handbook for pastors and ministry leaders seeking to cultivate sustainable, church-wide cultures of prayer. The book has equipped thousands of churches nationally and internationally with theological foundations, leadership structures, and practical frameworks for building enduring prayer movements. Its emphasis on corporate prayer leadership, strategic mobilization, and spiritually aligned teams forms the backbone of Cheryl’s teaching and serves as the foundational text for this course.
Cheryl has extended these principles into next-generation and family discipleship through Prayer Saturated Kids: Equipping and Empowering Children in Prayer (NavPress) and Fire on the Family Altar: Experience the Holy Spirit in Your Home (Destiny Image). These works apply prayer leadership beyond the church setting, equipping families and emerging generations to cultivate spiritually formative environments rooted in biblical prayer.
In 2022, Cheryl launched a nationwide back-to-school prayer initiative accompanied by her book, Reclaim a Generation: 21 Days of Prayer for Schools (Prayershop.org). The book mobilizes churches and individuals across all 50 U.S. states to pray strategically for students (K–University), educators, and schools.
Prior to full-time ministry leadership, Cheryl built an extensive career in communications and education, serving as a public relations director, feature writer for the Associated Press, high school and community college instructor, and school administrator. She has also served as a guest lecturer at Southern Methodist University. This blend of marketplace leadership, academic instruction, and ministry mobilization informs her integrative approach to prayer leadership—combining theological depth, organizational structure, and practical implementation. Cheryl holds a Master of Arts in Journalism from the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas.
I’ve been leading prayer in my church for six years, but I learned so much in this course—I don’t know how I ever led prayer without this knowledge and training.
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Foundations in Prayer Leadership Course
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Certificate in Prayer Leadership
BIB380 - Advanced Strategies in Prayer Leadership
BIB280 - Foundations in Prayer Leadership
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*Registrants seeking university credit for this course must register through Admissions or an Enrollment Management Specialist.