The History of Prayer Sisters International

The original Prayer Sisters began in Colorado in 1999, when a small group of mothers of teenagers met to pray regularly for the growing concerns of their adolescents. Over the years, they widened the scope of their prayers and found themselves walking one another through a variety of personal challenges and family crises. Eventually, they began calling each other “Prayer Sisters,” because these friends had grown as close as sisters and knew they could count on one another for prayer.

In 2014, after much prayer, it became clear it was time to hand off the PSI leadership baton. The unanimous choice of PSI President Kathy Groom and the twelve PSI board memebers was fellow PSI board member Aly Yohn, who had been serving on the board for two years. Since then, Aly and her leadership team have been following as the Lord leads to encourage women around the world to come together in prayer.

Inspired to help other women experience these same enriching benefits, one of the Prayer Sisters—Kathy Groom—followed God’s calling to provide hands-on tools for women to start their own groups. Prayer Sisters International (PSI) officially launched in 2005, gaining its 501(c)(3) status in 2007. A devoted team took a dream and, over the next nine years, turned it into reality as they challenged and equipped women from multiple states and countries to connect in prayer.

I Corinthians 3:6–9 New International Version (NIV)

I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. 

So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything,

but only God, who makes things grow. 

The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose,

and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor.

 For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building.