The Prayer Update
Sep 11, 2025
We're excited to unveil one of our largest ever updates to prayer within Apollos. New features on the mobile app allow you to track and celebrate your prayers with ease. Plus, you can now engage with connections through Unprompted Prayer, deepening your community connections.
My Prayers Screen
You can now keep track of your prayers in one place on the mobile app. The new My Prayers screen shows all your active prayers at a glance. Tap any prayer to open its individual view, mark it as answered, or delete old prayers.
Mark prayers as answered, add notes, and notify your prayer circle
You can now mark prayers as answered in the mobile app—closing the loop and celebrating how God moves in your life and community.
From your Prayer List or any prayer detail, mark a prayer as answered and add an optional note about how God answered. People who prayed with you get a notification and can read your story, making it easy for your church to celebrate together.
Answered prayers no longer show in your active prayer flow or prayer widget, but you can revisit them anytime in a new Answered section on your community profile. This keeps your daily prayer time focused while preserving testimonies for encouragement and reflection.
To help you keep things current, you’ll receive a gentle reminder seven days after creating a prayer to check if it’s been answered.
Unprompted Prayer to Re-engage Followers
You can now pray for someone you follow—even if they haven’t posted a prayer request recently—and gently let them know you’re thinking of them. From your regular prayer flow in the mobile app, you’ll see opportunities to send an unprompted prayer. When you do, they receive a push notification that says you prayed for them, inviting them back into community.
Here’s how it works:
- During your prayer time, the app will periodically suggest an inactive follower you can pray for.
- The person you prayed for gets a notification, helping them re-engage with your church’s app.
Use it to check in on a small group member who’s been quiet, encourage a student between semesters, or let a friend know they’re on your heart. It’s a simple way to foster everyday spiritual growth and bring people back into the rhythm of prayer and community.
Respond to Prayer Requests
Sometimes simply letting someone know that you are praying for them is not an adequate response to their need. With building community at the heart of Apollos, we wanted to provide a way for people to be ministered to directly.
Now, you can tap to respond directly to a prayer request via chat message, enabling ministry, and helping encourage community.