prayer-chain
What people who don't truly believe that God always answers reasonable prayers engage in as a way of hopefully "crowd-pressuring" Him into granting their wishes.
I'm not a "man or God" or even particularly a believer, but I have still never been comfortable with the idea of prayer-chains, since the idea behind it seems kind of "opposite" to the "God always answers your prayers if you only believe" crap that so -called Christians are always spouting off about --- I know that if I were God, I would resent people's engaging in prayer-chains, since it would imply that I wasn't kind, generous, or merciful enough to fulfill prayers if they were spoken merely by the person needing the help, but instead needed to feel pressured by pleading multitudes of "loyal to the faith" humans before I would make any effort on behalf of the person whom they were all praying to me about.