Melanie Wayne is a praying grandmother. While her sons were growing up, Melanie met with a circle of mothers every week to pray following guidelines developed by the organization Moms in Touch International. This discipline of faithful, committed prayer brought these mothers through many years of crises as well as blessings. Now, having entered their 50’s and 60’s, this same group, with several more added, are scattered across the country. Each morning these [now] grandmothers continue to pray corporately via the internet, for the next generation ~ their grandchildren. A Grandparent’s Prayer Journal provides a selection of prayers born from this experience.

Melanie was born and raised in El Paso, Texas, a life-long member of the Pro Cathedral Church of St. Clement. From her earliest years, Melanie recalls a childlike love relationship with the Father, even setting up a small altar in her bedroom, complete with candles, cross, and linens appropriate to the liturgical season. It wasn’t until she attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas, that she became aware of her need for a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. After graduation from Baylor, she attended a lay-witness weekend Faith Alive where she made a public commitment of faith, January 23, 1973.

Melanie has been active in prayer ministry for over thirty years. Sitting at the feet of such prayer warriors as Joy Dawson, Henry Blackaby, Nancy DeMoss, Bill Bright, Dennis Kinlaw, and many others, Melanie has experienced the incredible joy of pouring out her heart before and hearing from the Father. She shares a love and hope born out of an intimate knowledge of the mercy, kindness and faithfulness of God. She has been involved in city-wide prayer movements, leads the intercessory prayer ministry at her church, and is a prayer minister of an inner healing prayer ministry in El Paso. She served as co-founder of Southwest Women of Faith and is president of the Mission Board of her church.

Melanie believes that the prayers of grandparents across this nation will undoubtedly change the moral and spiritual direction of the next generation. Her dream is to see every Christian grandparent committed to daily intensive and directed prayer for his/her grandchildren.

Melanie and her husband George were married in 1968 on the Baylor University campus. They have two sons, Chad and Geoffrey, two precious daughters brought into their family through marriage ~ Pam and Midori ~ and two of the most adorable grandsons on the planet, Tadhg and Niall.