Preparing for Prodigal Prayer Day 2026

It's Two Days until Worldwide Prodigal Prayer Day.

If you have questions, I have answers.

Who may pray for prodigals on June 2? Anyone and everyone can pray—from all over the world.  Most often people who love an at-risk or rebellious family member are eager to pray. And many with adult children who have left their faith will want to pray.

What is Prayer for Prodigals? Do I have to be a member? Prayer for Prodigals (P4P) is a community of people who have joined on our password protected website for resources, encouragement and a safe place to request prayer and pray for others. It is free and all online. We sponsor the Worldwide Prodigal Prayer Day, but you don’t have to be a member to pray with us on June 2. Information, resources and personal requests are available to members only because it is a password-protected site. You are welcome to join, and I will explain how at the end of this post.

How do we pray on June 2? You may pray in any way that works for you: You may pray as long or as little as you like. Most people try to join with others—friends, neighbors, church—in small groups, or on zoom or google calls, at some point in the day. Or you can pray by yourself. I pray on and off throughout the day, and usually end with a group praying in my home.

If you don’t have a group to pray with, and prefer to have people to pray with, you are welcome to join us on zoom. Register to join zoom call: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/GNHebcklQGqh2po5Y_6t2w

I mean, how do we “pray”? Again, in any way you are comfortable. Tell God what’s on your heart. We have a booklet, Prayers for Your Wilderness Journey https://judydouglass.com/prayersforyourwildernessjourney, that offers a variety of ways to pray and helpful Scriptures. Here are some other helps for prayer:

Prayers for People I Love: https://judydouglass.com/blog/2017/03/7-prayers-pray-people-love

15 Prayers for Children and Grandchildren: https://judydouglass.com/blog/2015/11/15-scriptures-i-pray-for-my-grandchildren

What is The List? This list is the centerpiece of the Prodigal Prayer Day. People send us first names. We pray, they pray, hopefully you pray. The list grows—and gets prayed for—all year. This is a focused time for many to join together. At this time we have more than 13,000 names for whom prayer has been requested. It is only first names, but God knows each one.

Some of us will pray through the entire list, lifting names up to God, asking Him to keep on loving and pursuing them, drawing them back to those who love them and to Himself. Many will pray for a section of the list (it’s alphabetical) or get as far as they can. We ask that everyone try to spend some time praying for people on The List.

If you are a member of P4P, you can access the list there on the welcome page. If you are not a member (you are welcome to join us) you can access the list here: https://judydouglass.com/prodigalprayerlist

I don’t always get through the entire list on June 2, so I keep praying through the list the next few days. You can use it all year. Some of us zoom several times in the following year to keep praying.

How do we put names on the list? You can write to prayerforprodigals@gmail.com. or you can post names on our Facebook page: (facebook.com/Prayer4Prodigals) You may continue to add names through June 2 for this year’s prayer day—and anytime all year—first names only.

Is there anything else we need to know? If you have not had an opportunity to read the devotionals on this year's theme—Transformation—you will find them beginning here: https://judydouglass.com/blog/thank2026.

Then some of you might want to join the Prayer for Prodigals virtual community. We have intentionally required a password so you feel safe and comfortable to post specific requests for your loved one and related challenges. And others will feel safe also as they post requests.

We do encourage you, if you join, to try to participate by praying for other requests. You can do that on your own. Or you can join in the highlight of the community: You can write out on the site your prayers for requests from others, and they will be so encouraged as they read what others pray. And they will do the same for you. That is what makes it a beautiful community.

And please, update us. We love when your update is good news of God working in your prodigal’s life. But we also love to keep praying when you have more requests.

Most of us with prodigals know of others who love a prodigal. Please let them know about the June 2 Worldwide Prodigal Prayer Day and the Prayer for Prodigals Community. Encourage them to write to us at PrayerforProdigals@gmail.com.

May June 2 be the beginning of transformation!

c2026 Judy Douglass