Follow-up includes getting students into small groups, hosting outreach events and helping freshmen feel welcomed and cared for. Prayer is the activity that reveals most closely our dependence on God. Without such dependence, people rely on themselves and bum out. Prayer was an active ingredient in all of the fellowships surveyed. Some, however, had pursued it more consciously than others as an aspect of corporate life together.
Some chapters have consistent and large daily prayer meetings.
For some of the strong chapters on commuter campuses, two times may be scheduled each day, or the time may vary from day to day. Some chapters add an extended concert of prayer one day each week. Several of those surveyed said that their chapter's ability to take risks has been tied directly to regular prayer times. And some have been able to see a direct connection between conversions on campus and their daily prayer meeting. Some traditions can become outworn and hollow.