Established as a dedicated prayer-and-fasting time alongside the Monday morning prayer meeting (1994) [Leader — to confirm]

The Prayer and Fasting Clinic is HBC’s dedicated time of corporate prayer and fasting — a “clinic” in the sense of God’s people coming together to seek the Lord for healing, breakthrough, direction, repentance, and the deepest needs of the church family.

The closest documented precedent in the 2015 booklet is the Monday morning prayer meeting, which Deaconess Hazel Christie established in her own living room in 1994 and which grew so large that it had to move into the church itself. As Deaconess Christie wrote: “It attracted a lot of people and offered so much comfort to those who came… Since the inception of the prayer meeting in 1994, it continues to be a blessing as people from different church[es] attend and ask us as a group to pray with them.” For many years it was opened faithfully every Monday by Deaconess Christie and Sister Florence McEachron — described by Pastor Cornelius in his foreword to the 2015 booklet as having “without fail opened the doors of the church every Monday morning for prayer meeting. Many souls continue to be blessed by this ministry.”

The Prayer and Fasting Clinic builds on that prayer foundation. The 2015 booklet does not record this group as a distinct chapter (it may have developed as a specific track of corporate prayer in more recent years), so the precise schedule, format and current leadership of the Prayer and Fasting Clinic should be confirmed.

Sources: [125th] pp. 5 (foreword), 47 (Monday morning prayer meeting); current detail to be confirmed.