Early 20th century Presbyterian pastor Wilber Chapman once saw more than 1,300 people come to faith in Christ during a three-year period of time in his Bethany Street Presbyterian Church. He put that spiritual success solely on the shoulders of more than 200 men who were gathering each Sunday morning to pray that the Holy Spirit's power would fall on Chapman as he stepped into the pulpit to preach.

First Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, has more than 100 men who gather two Saturday mornings a month to pray for the ministry of the church. For years in the 80s and 90s Menomone Alliance Church in Wisconsin had 30 plus men gather on Saturday mornings to pray. That church equates much of the growth and powerful ministry it experienced in the past two decades on this praying group of men.

In every church there is a mostly dormant army of men who can be trained to pray. But how do you do it?

Here are a few ideas.