A Weekly Prayer Call from Aprize
Every Wednesday at noon we stop working, open a call, and bring the frontier of AI before God — the breakthroughs, the troubling turns, and the decisions no one feels quite ready to make.
Aprize, PBC builds data products for nonprofits, foundations, and the public sector — work that now sits squarely inside the AI boom. Early on we decided we did not want to build in this moment without praying our way through it.
So we started ALTAR Intercessors: an open, weekly hour where the week’s news, the tools being released, and our own decisions get named out loud and handed to God.
You do not need to work at Aprize. You do not need to work in technology. You do not need to arrive with anything prepared. Come and pray, or come and listen — both are welcome.
What Defines AprizeOne song, listened and sung together (microphones off), before a word of business.
A short orientation — especially for anyone joining for the first time.
A leader brings a passage of Scripture and opens us in prayer.
Two stories from the week in AI, each framed briefly, each prayed over by someone on the call.
The floor opens. Bring a breakthrough worth thanking God for, a development that troubles you, or a decision you are carrying.
A rotating triad — one of the world’s greatest problems, one of the seven mountains of culture, and the day’s unreached people group.
One of the five Aprize values each week, and what that value is running into in AI right now.
We close together and send one another back out into the week.
The same song we opened with.
Taking part is easy, and optional. Raise your hand on screen to volunteer to pray aloud, or use the floating reactions to say “amen” and cheer each other on while someone else prays. Listening quietly is a real way to be present.
Each week we pray one item drawn from each of three streams. Two are lists we advance through; the third changes with the calendar — so the combination is fresh each week.
Nine problems the global Church keeps running into. We take one each week and ask where AI helps, where it harms, and where it is simply absent.
The seven spheres that shape a culture. AI is arriving in every one of them at once, so we take them one at a time.
A different people group is assigned to every day of the year. We pray for the one that falls on our Wednesday — and for Scripture reaching them in their own language.
The open-call segment works best when people arrive with something specific. Here is the shape of what we pray for together.
Say it plainly, in a sentence or two.
Not unwelcome — just handled differently.
Register once and you will have the link for every week. Come for the whole hour, or for the part of it you can make.
“For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.” Proverbs 2:6