Explore

Gather prayer around what Jesus is doing.

Use Explore to choose where your prayer belongs. Some rails show real public videos from Pete and Mike. The other rails show templates you can make real with your own people.

Gatherings

Prayer can have a place to return

The shape matters because the prayer is shared differently.

Use this page to choose the right place for your prayer: a Personal Journal, Journey, Prayer Circle, Mission Gathering, or Ministry Gathering. <see examples...>

Testimonies

No debates, defenses, or doctrine.

The Jesus Stories collection began with this posture: simple witness, not a stage for argument.

Personal

Personal prayer journals.

Pete's Personal Journal is real: one person returning, praying, and noticing what Jesus is doing over time.

Pete's prayer journal.

Pete from Indianapolis is real. This Personal Journal includes 50 cleared public prayers.

Visit Pete's real journal

Three Fields Dream

Pete from Indianapolis

Everyday resurrection power

Pete from Indianapolis

Thank you for a tender conscience

Pete from Indianapolis

YWAM Mexico

Pete from Indianapolis

Learning a New Language of Gratitude

Pete from Indianapolis

Breaking Free From a Lifetime Pattern

Pete from Indianapolis

Grateful for Persistence in Following Jesus

Pete from Indianapolis

A sheep's power word

Pete from Indianapolis

Gaza small ball

Pete from Indianapolis

New Year's repentance

Pete from Indianapolis

Pentecost

Pete from Indianapolis

Pete from Jesus Does

Pete from Indianapolis

Pete from Jesus Does

Pete from Indianapolis

Pete from Jesus Does

Pete from Indianapolis

Saving face vs the look on yours

Pete from Indianapolis

My son taking my example

Pete from Indianapolis

Digging through ceilings

Pete from Indianapolis

Mira cried

Pete from Indianapolis

Mom and Dad

Pete from Indianapolis

Abiding

Pete from Indianapolis

Being jealous

Pete from Indianapolis

Coming in power

Pete from Indianapolis

Contingency

Pete from Indianapolis

Defeating Covid

Pete from Indianapolis

Fulfilling covenants

Pete from Indianapolis

Good work

Pete from Indianapolis

Good work

Pete from Indianapolis

Identity over archetypes

Pete from Indianapolis

Increasing my need

Pete from Indianapolis

Loving through us

Pete from Indianapolis

Multiplying sacrifices

Pete from Indianapolis

Paying

Pete from Indianapolis

Recharges

Pete from Indianapolis

Refining us with each other

Pete from Indianapolis

Saunas and snow days

Pete from Indianapolis

Subversive wooing love

Pete from Indianapolis

Teaching Mira your song

Pete from Indianapolis

Hard days, bigger invitation

Pete from Indianapolis

The live version

Pete from Indianapolis

The price of salt

Pete from Indianapolis

Well-earned bedtimes

Pete from Indianapolis

What you invite me into

Pete from Indianapolis

Your way of humbling

Pete from Indianapolis

Your love to pass and receive

Pete from Indianapolis

Testing claims more of me

Pete from Indianapolis

The blessing creation longs for

Pete from Indianapolis

There is so much of you

Pete from Indianapolis

Through glass dimly

Pete from Indianapolis

Most compelling part of the story

Pete from Indianapolis

You love me on off days

Pete from Indianapolis

Journeys & Trials

Walk through a hard season together.

Mike's divorce journey is real: a hard-season thread of prayer, gratitude, waiting, and attention over time.

Mike's divorce journey.

Mike from Indianapolis is real. This Journey includes 13 hosted videos from a divorce-season journal.

Visit Mike's real Journey

Being the Author

Mike from Indianapolis

Good morning Jesus

Mike from Indianapolis

Lord of my scruff

Mike from Indianapolis

Mike from Indy Vineyard

Mike from Indianapolis

Mike from Indy Vineyard

Mike from Indianapolis

My new relationship with you

Mike from Indianapolis

Author redux

Mike from Indianapolis

Brothers

Mike from Indianapolis

Carrying us

Mike from Indianapolis

Friends

Mike from Indianapolis

Support

Mike from Indianapolis

What's best

Mike from Indianapolis

Your kind of relationships

Mike from Indianapolis

Prayer Circles

Small groups praying in one place.

Start a Prayer Circle when your friends, family, class, team, or Bible study needs one focused place to pray to Jesus.

Gather your small group as a Prayer Circle.

Give familiar people one place to pray, return, and remember what Jesus is doing among them.

See Prayer Circle example
Circle

The Porchlight Circle

Start with your family, Bible study, class, or team. Once your people begin praying, this template can become your real circle.

Create your circle
Small groups

Small groups become Prayer Circles here

Same familiar people, clearer prayer posture.

A Prayer Circle gives a Bible study, family, class, or team one simple place to pray to Jesus together and remember what He does. <read more...>

Invite

Kitchen Table Prayers

Invite known people to pray without turning the circle into a public feed. Your group can replace this placeholder.

Start yours
Remember

The Amen Thread

Use the pattern for prayers, thanks, and updates to Jesus, then let your real videos carry the story.

Build your example
Mission Gatherings

Create the first mission gathering.

Start a Mission Gathering when your team has prayers, updates, and witness around a shared effort.

See Mission Gatherings
Mission

Sunny Shoes Team

Gather prayers before, during, and after the work. When your team records real videos, this template becomes yours.

Create your mission
Team

The Send-Off Crew

Give supporters and team members one focused place to pray instead of scattering the story.

Start yours
Updates

Little Blue Van Updates

Use this pattern for real mission updates when your videos are ready and approved.

Make it real
Thanks

Home Again Thanks

After the trip, keep the prayers and thanks in one place so your people can remember what Jesus did.

Build yours
Choose

Choose the place that fits the prayer.

A private journal, a Journey, a Mission Gathering, a public Praise Report, or a Prayer Circle can all begin with one clear reason and one first prayer to Jesus.

Challenge Journal

Pray through the question that will not leave.

For a why-didn't-You premise, painful topic, or journal subset that belongs inside a Personal Journal.

Prayer Circles

Let a small group pray in one place.

Prayer Circle is what JesusDoes calls small groups: invited friends, families, classes, teams, and Bible studies praying in one place.

Ministries

Let a ministry remember together.

For a church, ministry, or network that needs one root gathering for teams, campaigns, circles, missions, journeys, and public testimony.

Cries for Help

Let present need be spoken plainly.

For public testimony that should carry a definite please tag inside the Personal Journal path.

Ministries

Ministries can remember together.

Start a Ministry Gathering when your church, nonprofit, or ministry needs one public witness home for testimony, circles, missions, journeys, and remembered thanks.

See Ministry Gatherings
Ministry

Mercy Table Ministry

Give your church, nonprofit, or ministry one witness home for campaigns, circles, missions, journeys, and public thanks.

Start at JesusDoes.com
Campaigns

Hope House Campaigns

Use campaigns for events, outreach, QR cards, and service efforts where your ministry owns the invitation.

Plan yours
Teams

Open Door Team

Connect people, prayers, and follow-up work without turning the public witness page into a dashboard.

Build yours
Witness

Little Lantern Witness

When your ministry has approved videos, replace this template with real public witness.

Create yours
Ministry witness

A ministry can be a folder of Gatherings

The ministry is the root. The prayers can still have their own places.

Ministry Gatherings let a ministry collect public witness now, while site feeds, ministry response, and paid tools remain later JesusDoes.com work. <read more...>