There has to be a better way.
One morning, Rob was working through his prayer list in iPhone Notes and had the thought that starts a lot of good trouble: there has to be a better way to do this.
He looked for an app that could help organize prayer, but nothing really spoke to him. As he kept praying about it, the idea stretched beyond a simple organizer.
The first version was called Prayer Bucket: a way to place personal prayer items into the different “buckets” of your life. Then the bigger question arrived.
What if you could put a prayer request in and receive another one back? What if those requests were randomized, so you found yourself praying for someone you had never met — a believer, just like you, needing prayerful intercession for the things in their life?
The idea was alive. The path was not.
Rob started making calls. The problem was blunt: “I’m not a tech guy. I need help.”
Some app builders were willing to talk. Nobody really understood the assignment. Nobody wanted less than $20,000 to build it.
Non-starter. Couldn’t afford it. Didn’t know how to do it.
Then came brisket.
Ian’s house. Dinner with Rob, Ian, and their better halves. Faith, life, family, creativity — the kind of night that feels ordinary until it doesn’t.
Things were winding down when Ian asked Rob what he had been up to creatively.
Ian’s ears perked up. He was intrigued. He did not love the name Prayer Bucket — fair — but there was something in the idea.
Then Ian started brainstorming. First sitting down. Then standing up. The ideas got better. And before anyone quite realized what was happening, the language changed.
“We could do this.”
All of a sudden, the dream was alive again. Something was happening in the room, in the moment. Now all four of them were throwing ideas into the air.
What if this app actually changed the way people thought about prayer?
What if people could see God moving in real time?
What if they could always find a prayer partner?
What if urgent needs could be prayed for without waiting?
What if people knew they were never alone?
PRYR launches.
That’s the story so far: a prayer list, a stubborn idea, a closed door, a brisket, and a yes.
PRYR is being built so people can bring real requests, pray for one another, and remember the thing that started ringing in that room: you are never alone.