24/7 prayer

As well as resources we are aware that prayer year must involve us actually praying. We are delighted that our young people are taking the lead in coordinating a 24/7-prayer event over Holy week 2010. This is the first time that the URC has ever been linked through prayer in such a way with a united chain of prayer across the nation day and night for a week. Perhaps you would like to take up the challenge may be for a time of sustained prayer or even just get on board for and hour or two. If you would like to find out more please look here or contact Heather Latimer at youth@urc.org.uk

Seasonal Prayers – Lent & Easter

Seasonal Prayers are designed to provide prayer ideas for specific times of the year. Prayers for Lent and Easter are now available. Check it out here

Materials inlcude a wide range of prayers and reflections including:

Mothering Sunday – Praying with Pretzels – Wilderness God – Lenten Reflections – Lent & Easter Prayer Stations – Lent & Easter Meals – Counting the Cost – Holy Week Prayers – Worst Week – Easter Day – Resurrection sketch – A friend who walks our way

Praying our days

The Prayer Year booklet, written by the prayer group, was mailed out to all churches in December 2009. Every church that signed up before the end of 2009 received 50 copies so they can be shared with everyone in your congregation.

We still have some stocks of the booklet which you can obtain by emailing Francis Brienen here.  You can also download a copy and print locally.

Download PrayingOurDaysBooklet.pdf or by clicking the image to the right.

You can download the front page as a jpg image for posters etc. here

Building our relationship with Christ

In partnership with Vision4Life, the Nationwide Christian Trust have produced a booklet on the subject of prayer. It covers biblical teaching on prayer and includes a number of studies on the theme.

All Vision4Life Signed up Churches have already received one free copy and further copies are available for purchase through the NCT website by clicking here or the logo below.

Prayer toolkit

The toolkit includes resources and ideas to encourage you in your prayer life and offers suggestions to help you in personal, group or church prayer. The toolkit will be added to as the year goes on.

The latest items inlcude:

• Examen Prayer – a type of Ignatian prayer
• Creating a Prayer Garden
• Mourning prayer for those who are bereaved

Take a look at the prayer menu to the right or click the top menu for fuller details.

Prayer Links

Here you will find a number of useful links to other sites offering prayer resources. Some of these are particular to such things as 24-7 prayer and Lent

Other resources

Some resources already used by other people have been submitted. Initially these include

• The Occupational Prayer Cycle of the South Yorkshire Workplace Chaplaincy
• Prayer – the walk of encounter, submitted by Dunamis & GEAR
• Gateways to Prayer