All fellowship, all friendship, all growth, all success, is down to the quality of our prayer and intercession. At the very helm of our fellow-SHIP is prayer. The small church needs to put it's prayer life up front. It needs to become part of the spiritual authority in the town, city or village. Each group that lives out the unity it has in the Spirit, will find it's prayer life very effective and will see changes in the moral climate of their community.
Prayer is costly, it is the work of the church.
It is harder to pray than to put tracts through letter-boxes. It is harder than holding gospel meetings. It is harder than anything else we do, but it is the most effective work we do. So, prayer and intercession needs to be put into practice. Often, it starts with us.