It has been said that prayer is primary speech; it is the language we have before we have language. At Middle Church, we believe the impulse to pray comes from God wanting us to make contact. We believe that prayer takes on many forms: every sigh is a prayer; our songs are prayer; every plié and lift is a prayer. We pray structured prayers in our community in worship on Sunday mornings and evenings, and on Wednesday evenings as well. We pray when we meet in our being groups and in our doing groups. We pray in our classroooms, when children and adults are learning. We pray as we help those in our community in need. We encourage our members to pray always, to spend our lives in an attitude of prayer.

Prayer changes things; at Middle Church, we know it is so.