What We Do
We Pray * A Tangible Space * Campus Wide Prayer * Beyond OSUNot only do we encourage others to pray, but we do so from a culture of prayer ourselves. If you have a request for prayer (or an awesome story about how prayer was answered) send us an email: prayer@loveosu.com. We would love to partner with you in prayer.
Pray with your whole being. God has given us the ability to be inventive, creative and imaginative. The Prayer House is designed to help stimulate our five senses and release our imaginations and dreams. Time in the prayer room becomes a time of freedom, intimacy and power. There is something so adventurous and exciting about getting away to a place where others have cried out to God. Art, poetry and prayers cover the walls, and time here is like walking into the hearts of our campus community spread out raw and vulnerable before God and us.
Directions
Address: 43 W 10th Ave Columbus, OH 43201 (less than a block west of High St)
Walking: The Prayer House faces the alley between 9th and 10th Avenue by the South Campus Gateway. Walk behind 47 W. 10th toward the alley and you will see it in the back.
Driving: Heading south on High Street into the south campus gateway, turn right into the taco bell parking lot and head down the alley. The prayer house is a few homes on the right. It is a beige house and there is a sign on the door that says “house of prayer.”
Parking: One parking passes is available at the prayer house (ask the gate keeper). Otherwise, park on W 9th Ave anytime or W 10th Ave after 4PM and prior to 8AM.
Biking: Bicycles may be chained to the railing by the steps or brought into the house.
3. Facilitate a campus wide community of prayer.
- Campus Wide Prayer: Students from all different ministries and churches gather every Wednesday at 10pm on the Oval (during the warm months. Currently we meet at the prayer house) to agree in prayer over our campus, nation and world. Praying together provides an opportunity for unique and valuable relationships to form between the diverse family of God.
- 24/7 Prayer: Love OSU regularly hosts weeks of 24/7 prayer on campus. We see that bold, persistent prayer is effective. First, it changes us. Then, it changes the world. Jesus told stories to encourage us to “cry out day and night” (Lk 18) and to persist in prayer. Campus churches and ministry take prayer blocks throughout the week that either take place at the Prayer House or a tent in the center of campus. Our vision is to see 24/7 prayer not just be a weeklong event, but a consistent rhythm of inviting God’s presence sustained by students.
4. Help mobilize prayer on other campuses in Ohio and the Nation.
It’s spreading. Love OSU is humbled to be one of the first student prayer movements of its kind. We work with students from campuses in Ohio to unite in our efforts of prayer and network with schools across the nation that are seeking to carry out similar visions.
