Joe Kelley, national prayer advocate (left), and Migdiel Perez, manager of the Upper Room Living Prayer Center (right), congratulate Herman Lightsey, president of South Carolina UM Men, for being the top contributor to the prayer ministry.

Last year, the prayer advocates contributed $24,935 to the ministry. Many conference units host remote prayer lines to answer prayer requests from people all around the world.

The Upper Room also had 224,224 visitors to a website in 2016, where 72,588 people posted prayer requests.