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title: Attaching a funding link to a prayer
description: When a prayer mentions a real financial need — medical costs, funeral expenses, a family rebuilding after a fire, a missionary in transition — you can attach a crowdfunding link so people moved to help have an easy path. The…
url: "https://support.prayerconnect.church/docs/attaching-a-funding-link/"
updated: "2026-05-14"
category: Prayer Management
---

# Attaching a funding link to a prayer

When a prayer mentions a real financial need — medical costs, funeral expenses, a family rebuilding after a fire, a missionary in transition — you can attach a crowdfunding link so people moved to help have an easy path. The link appears as a small button on the prayer detail page and a **FUNDING** badge on the Prayer Wall card.

The **Funding link** field is on the Submit Prayer screen and the Edit Prayer screen, just below the prayer style dropdown.

### Supported platforms

PrayerConnect only accepts links from established crowdfunding services:

- GoFundMe (`gofundme.com`)
- MealTrain (`mealtrain.com`)
- Givebutter (`givebutter.com`)
- Classy (`classy.org`)
- Fundly (`fundly.com`)

If you paste a link from a different platform, the form will reject it with a "Supported platforms..." error message. This is intentional: we want the link icon next to a prayer to send viewers somewhere safe, not to whatever URL the author pasted.

### What other people see

- On the Prayer Wall card: a small green **FUNDING** badge alongside other badges (SHARED, ANSWERED, BOOSTED).
- On the prayer detail page: a button under the prayer text labeled with the host (e.g., "gofundme.com"). The button opens the link in a new tab.
- In the AI-generated prayer text itself: nothing — the prayer isn't aware of the link.

### Privacy and security

- The link must use `https://` — `http://` is rejected.
- We open links in a new tab with the browser's "noopener noreferrer nofollow" protections so the funding-site can't reach back into PrayerConnect.
- We don't track click-throughs.

### When NOT to attach a link

- If your prayer doesn't actually mention a financial need.
- If the campaign is for someone else and you haven't talked to them — let the person whose need it is post their own campaign.
- If the campaign is for political donation or anything that's not a personal-need fundraiser.

The pastor or admin moderation team can ask you to remove the link if they think it doesn't fit.