BELHAVEN — Team Coalition, a conglomerate of five local churches, will host Belhaven’s first prayer walk, in which all of Belhaven will be prayed for during the week of June 15 to June 21.

Karen Wahab, who is heading up the project, said the prayer walk will involve churches and anyone else interested who would like to participate, to respectfully and humbly pray for people throughout Belhaven.

“This will be our first go at it,” Wahab said. “You just take a street and you just go down the street and during that week, every street and everybody and every business in Belhaven will be prayed for, and you pray in the way that you want. There are no restrictions on how or what kind of prayers you should use — it’s up to you. It’s very general and I think it is something that will be very meaningful for those participating and, hopefully, the town.”

Wahab said the idea came from a prayer walk conducted by churches in Kinston, which has been mimicked by cities and towns across the United States. The coalition asked the town of Belhaven to provide a map of the entire town so the churches could equally divide the town into five sections for the walk.

Rev. Burke Holland of First Christian Church said the coalition is made up of five local churches: St. James Episcopal, First Christian Church, Trinity Methodist Church, First Baptist of Smithton and White Plains Church Ministries. The churches work together to do whatever they can to improve the town of Belhaven and help its residents who are in need. Each church will be responsible for one of five sections of the town, Holland said.

“Each church will take a section and their members, who will participate in the walk, will choose a street,” Holland said. “They will walk that street and stop before each house on that street and say a prayer for that home. All the streets will be covered during that week.”

Holland said the coalition plans to continue the prayer walk annually and hopes to conduct the 2015 Prayer Walk in accordance with the National Day of Prayer.