Global Day of Prayer Update!
Greetings – across the British Isles and beyond!
As the Lord continues to mobilise prayer across our globe, it is good to be able to read the stories of how He is leading his Church to pray during this season. We profile stories regularly each week on the Prayer Forum website, so if you want to be encouraged do sign up http://www.prayerforum.org/
Here across the British Iles – many places organised special united prayer events and lots of churches took part either in the 10 days leading up to Pentecost or on GDOP itself. Prayer events took place in : St Helier, Jersey; Romford, Nottingham, York, Birmingham, High Wycombe, Gosport, Dudley, Leeds, Slough, Derby, Warrington and across many of the London boroughs. For reports from Jersey, Dudley, Gosport and Leeds http://www.prayerforum.org/gdop-uk/
Update from GDOP in South Africa
‘With testimonies from across the globe still flowing in after the Global Day of Prayer on 12 June, we have once again realized that a foundation was laid to facilitate a lifestyle of prayer with as many people in as many places as possible. Here are a few examples of such testimonies.
“Thank you for the Global Day of prayer, I am missions President of my church and have been trying to find a way to introduce prayer to my church. With the global day of prayer, I was able to take each area of the world and break it up into 5 areas”
“The feeling we have every year can be illustrated by the attitude of this lady with her child, who came to us one day after the meeting and told us this: if the churches could be found together, without barriers of denominations, to praise God and pray together like today, it would be so fantastic, so wonderful!”
“Leaders who could not attend a service with a fellow minister saw the Global Day of Prayer as a means used by the Lord to unite them and it has mobilized the church and created the awareness of believers to pray for the nation of Liberia and the Universal Church.”
“Nothing is going to move without prayer and I believe with all my heart that after 6 years of participating in the GDOP, Hong Kong is never going to be the same again though we have to continue praying for His mercy and grace upon the nations.”
In many nations where believers have never had the confidence to register an event, either because they weren’t able to gather in large public places because of fear of persecution, or because they don’t have the resources to plan such gatherings, there has been an increase of requests for materials as well as formal registrations’.
And now in many nations across the globe Ninety days of blessing: 13 June – 10 September 2011.
And so to 2012! 10 days of prayer 17th – 26th May Global Day of prayer Pentecost Sunday: 27th May Global Day of Prayer takes place within the planned 70 day united prayer chain across our BI nations that will use the catalyst of the Olympic Torch Relay route. We are working through More than Gold to facilitate this (More than Gold is resourcing the church for mission in the lead up to and during the Olympic and Paralympic Games. www.morethangold.org.uk). More details will emerge in the autumn as to how we can all link in.
Blessings and thanks
Jane J
Jane Holloway – UK GDOP Co-ordinator
Tel: 0121 633 7393
World Prayer Centre, Cornerstone House, 5 Ethel Street, Birmingham, B2 4BG, UK
Web: www.globaldayofprayer.org.uk
