Women who keep the fire, the watch, and the gates.

Formation means being shaped on purpose.

Most of us were handed a role before anybody built us for it. You got asked to lead, serve, pray, or carry something — and nobody ever taught you how, or made sure you were steady enough to hold it.

Formation Altar is the opposite order. You are taught and built first. Nothing is asked of you here.

We open in prayer. I teach — an actual lesson, working through Scripture, part of a series that builds week over week. Then we take it apart together: what it means, what it looks like in a real life, and what to do with it this week. We close in prayer.

You can keep your camera off. You do not have to speak. You are not called on.

Anyone new. This is the front door.

You do not need experience, a title, a good-sounding testimony, or a church background. You do not need to be doing well. Some of the women here have prayed for thirty years. Some have never prayed out loud. Both belong.

If you are not sure where you fit with us — come here.

We come together at 11:45 at night and we pray. Worship, then intercession — for our families, our cities, the things weighing on us, and whatever the Lord puts in the room.

It is led by our DAG leaders, not only by me. Through the rest of 2026 we are also hosting guest leaders from around the world — men and women who pray, joining us from their own countries and their own houses, so we are not only praying for the nations but praying with them.

Two honest reasons.

It is quiet. The house is down, the phone is still, and nothing is competing for you. For most women it is the only hour of the week that is genuinely uninterrupted.

And Scripture keeps putting people there. Paul and Silas sang at midnight. The bridegroom came at midnight. Something about that hour shows up again and again as the hour God moves in.

Anyone who wants to pray with other people. New or seasoned.

If you have been praying alone for years and you are tired of it being only you — this is the room.

Come as you are — in your pajamas, in your car, in your kitchen. Camera optional. You do not have to pray out loud. You can listen, write, and agree quietly and you will have done the thing.

It does not run all night. That is Keepers Arise, once a month. This is a weekly gathering — come, pray, go to bed.

When we say house, we do not mean a building. In Hebrew the word is bayit, and it means three things at once: a dwelling, the family inside it, and the place God lives.

So a DAG house is a small group of women who pray together, watch together, and grow together, led by one woman who has been formed to lead them. Houses are named for the city their leader lives in — DAG-Indianapolis, DAG-Detroit — because a house belongs to a place and to real people, not to a platform.

We are starting houses right now. This table is where their leaders get built.

It is a table, not a service. Two hours, seated, working. I teach a module, we discuss it honestly, and you leave with something specific to do before the next one.

The first module covers three things:

Women who are going to lead, or are already leading, and need to be built for it.

And an honest word: this is not the place to start with us. Come to Formation Altar first — for a few months, not a few weeks. You cannot lead a house you have never sat in. The table is for the ones who have been formed and are being sent.

If you already lead your own ministry or organization and you are not looking to be formed but to build alongside people who understand the weight — reach out. That is a different conversation and there is room for it.

Six hours of prayer, once a month, through the night.

We start fifteen minutes before midnight and we pray until the sun is coming up. Worship, intercession, teaching, and time to stand for your family, your city, and what God has put in your hands.

It closes out the month and opens the next. By the time the sun comes up, you are in a new month and you did not sleep through the handoff.

Jesus named four watches of the night: "in the evening, at midnight, at the crowing of the rooster, or in the morning" — and then He said, "Watch therefore" (Mark 13:35).

We take the last two. The rooster and the morning — the two He warned us we would sleep through. Those are the hours nobody wants, and that is exactly why we take them.

Three words for one job.

The priest keeps the charge. The watchman keeps the watch. The gatekeeper keeps the gate.

In Hebrew they all come from one verb — shamar — to keep. They are not three different women. They are three things one woman does, and this is the night we do all three.

Anyone willing to stay up and pray. You do not need experience and you do not need to have done anything like this before.

Yes. And here is the honest version.

Come once and see. You will know after one.