I started The Battle Book Project with a prayer closet. In 2015, I heard about The War Room movie and decided to create my own war room. I cleared out the closet under the stairs, moved in a table and chairs, glued cork board to the walls and got stick pins. I read Priscilla Shirer’s book, Fervent, and wrote out and posted my prayers on the walls and began meeting with God daily under my stairs. It worked well, mostly.

Not wanting to be left out, Effy the cat joined me. She sat on my table, she played with the little light beam I brought in to distract her from my space and then she began knocking my prayers off the wall. Seemed like a good assignment to her.

I then gathered up my prayers off the walls and floor and kept them in a folder. I looked online how to organize this mess.  I found guidance for war binders. I used those ideas and created my own notebook with my own prayer pages.  Now I had dividers and guidance through my prayer routine. I had a Worship section, sections for myself and then several sections for others in my life.

I really liked this tool! I could take it with me on all my trips.  I could sit in other places in the house. As a member of a Moms In Prayer group, I thought I’d like to give my group a gift of this as an end-of-year gift. So I bought the supplies and assembled 12 books. It took a while to put them all together, putting in dividers, prayer pages and some notebook paper in between. The gift was well received, and everyone seemed to like it.

I had been praying for God to use me in whatever way He saw fit. I laid before Him my gifts of computer skills, art and anything else He saw fit to use. Producing battle books seemed like a fit to that. Not sure what I needed for that assignment though.  To get these out into prayer warriors’ hands, was quite a bit of hands-on labor. I thought about it and decided that I could get people to put their own book together and in doing so, they might have a sense of ownership.  Mostly though I wouldn’t have to be an endless sorting machine to produce these.

I prayed about it and decided to try a party and invited people, so they could assemble their own book. So that’s what I’ve been doing. I’ve had lots of parties at my home and others’ homes with a variety of people putting together books. I’ve improved the process with each party. I learn something new every time. I’ve designed most of my own pages and have gotten permission when I used someone else’s pages.  I give a talk on prayer before we build and then we get busy. Each person makes choices for divider papers, prayer pages, labels, and front covers.  It’s a lot of fun and each person seems so pleased when we are finished.

I have done large groups like a teachers’ new school year kickoff, a women’s conference and a couple of crafts shows.  I’ve had lots of small and mid-size parties.  I really love doing the parties the best.  It’s so personal, warm, and friendly.  I now have an Etsy page where I sell the pages.  There’s a link on this website for the store.  I also have a calendar where you can view the availability for battle book party.