The Praying Pastor

The Praying Pastor is a short film and conversation series inviting you into the real prayer lives of pastors and leaders from across the nation.

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A Series for Pastors

This is a resource designed to help leaders refocus their lives around prayer, so friendship with Jesus can sustain them in the long journey of ministry, enabling them to lead their teams from a place of dependence on God, and cultivate churches shaped by prayer and the presence of Jesus.

Guided by Themes

Five conversations with pastors and leaders exploring prayer as the center of life and ministry.

Nourishment

Discovering that the oldest prayers are often the most sustaining ones, and that the Psalms can feed your soul in seasons when your own words have run out.

Listening

Learning to come to God with everything, the disappointment, the anger, the confusion, and waiting long enough to hear him respond.

Honesty

Discovering that bringing your rawest, most broken self to God – doubt, grief, and all – doesn't drive Him away. It's what draws us closer to Him.

Dependence

Learning that operating beyond your natural capacity isn't a problem to solve, it's an invitation to pray without ceasing.

Discernment

Leading and making decisions from prayerful presence rather than pressure or productivity.

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Five conversations with pastors and leaders exploring prayer as the center of life and ministry.

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Meet Your Hosts

Together, Tyler Staton and Lee McDerment offer honest conversations that move prayer from an idea into a lived reality.

Tyler Staton

Tyler Staton hosts the video episodes, sitting with pastors and leaders to talk about the prayer rhythms that sustain their lives and shape their communities. Tyler is a pastor, author, and a regular writer for the Lectio 365 devotional.

Lee McDerment

Lee McDerment hosts the audio episodes, drawing out stories and practices from leaders across the movement. Lee serves as the Director of Prayer for 24-7 Prayer USA and helps churches cultivate cultures of prayerful leadership.

Join Us for a Praying Pastor Retreat

Want to take the journey further? We’re gathering a small group of pastors for an intimate retreat shaped around prayerful leadership.

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The demands of pastoral leadership are relentless. But a church shaped by prayer can only come from a pastor shaped by prayer.

The Praying Pastor Retreat is a dedicated space for leaders to step back, work through this series together, and refocus their lives around the one thing that makes the long journey of ministry sustainable.

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The Praying Pastor

A Series for Pastors