One Way to Get Your Newspaper Prayed-For!

It's a Bird. It's a Plane. No; It's a Helicopter Full of Praying Pastors.

Teresa Neumann (February 23, 2011)

"You see these different areas of the city that you never would have thought to even pray for before, so I think praying from a different view is huge."

(Colorado Springs, Co.)—Local helicopter pilot Will Sanders—who finds flying a "profoundly spiritual experience"—runs a tour company called Colorado Vertical. He loves to take pastors up into the air about once a month to pray.

"I was given a gift. I've been so blessed. How many people have a helicopter?" Sanders said. "I do believe in the power of prayer, and I want to cover this whole community with it."

"Pastors know their areas," he added. "They know where people are hurting, where people need prayer, where people need help, and I can take them over those areas," Sanders says.

A CNN report goes into detail about how the pastors pray when they've been hovering over the communities they serve. As noted in the report, they pray for friends and "foes" alike.

Praying for a newspaper known to criticize Christians, for example, pastors pray for it and the publisher, saying they hope they [the local churches] "would be marked by our love and not by our judgment."

Said one pastor after debarking the helicopter: "As I saw the city, so many things came to me. It just gives you a whole new perspective on people, I think. You see these different areas of the city that you never would have thought to even pray for before, so I think praying from a different view is huge."