Elaine Helms

Elaine Helms provides leadership at the North American Mission Board (NAMB) of the Southern Baptist Convention in the area of prayer. Her responsibilities include mobilization of missionary prayer support—by publishing the Quarterly NAMB Prayer-Gram, bi-weekly Prayer Connection E-letter, and 24/7 Prayer Line (1 800 554-PRAY); networking with national, state, associational, and church prayer leaders; oversight of the NAMB Prayer Web site, www.Namb.Net/Prayer; and encouraging Southern Baptists to pray for revival and spiritual awakening.

Elaine represents Southern Baptists on the Denominational Prayer Leaders Network, the National Prayer Committee, and is past president of Christian Women United. She also helps churches begin and develop prayer ministries by teaching on prayer at state convention and associational conferences, by consultation with individual churches, and speaking at prayer retreats, banquets and meetings.

Her book, If My People...Pray, Steps to Effective Church Prayer Ministry, was written when she was the Prayer Ministry Coordinator at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA for twelve years. It has been used by thousands of churches across the country and is available to help your church too. Her newest book is Prayer 101: What Every Intercessor Needs to Know released by New Hope Publishers in 2008.