As you may have noticed, the FRPG website has been neglected for almost an entire year.  There are a couple of reasons for this, but mainly I haven't had the time to devote to this project.

I began the FRPG website in 1998 after returning to the US after seven years of being stationed overseas in Guam, Germany, and Italy.  It began as a personal project to help those who participated in the prayer groups in these places, but soon it evolved into the FRPG prayer chain.  At it's peak, the prayer chain had well over 200 devoted members who would receive prayer requests of people from around the world.  These prayer requests were emailed to me from the website, and I would read each one to ensure they were not offensive or contained advertising, spam, or just silly stuff.  To my amazement, I never received anything but the most sincere and often heartbreaking pleas for prayer.

Now, as my family and I have moved again from the military into civilian life, and from South Carolina to Arizona, I found I don't have the time to screen each prayer request, compile the emails, and send them to the many FRPG prayer warriors around the globe.  It breaks my heart to know many people have continued to send in requests and I can't forward them on to others.  Therefore, in good conscience, I have temporarily suspended the prayer chain.  

I am looking into a couple of options which would allow us to resume the prayer chain with less effort on the part of the webmaster-- primarily, to set up a function where people can send in a prayer request and it would go straight to the prayer chain members.  There are some measures I could take to have emails automatically screened, but there are a couple of problems with this approach:

1. I would not be able to guarantee that 100% of the e-mails would be sincere requests for prayers, and
2. Members would automatically receive each prayer request sent as a separate email (as opposed to receiving a block of prayer requests as I used to do).  Sometimes you may receive two or three requests a day, if it reaches the point it was at before.

I don't know how many of you would actually be willing to try this new approach, but if you are interested let me know.  You can email me at bradoberry@msn.com. 

Meanwhile, I ask those of you who have been involved in any kind of Family Rosary Prayer Group to please write to me.  I would like to bring the new site online and ask for testimonials, pictures, points of contact for your prayer group, and whatever else may be of interest to all friends of the Church, our Lord, and Mary.

God bless you and your family,
Brad