Prayer
Welcome to the Prayer Year of Vision4Life, the second of three years that we hope will start to transform the United Reformed Church, and our partners, for mission. We began with the Bible Year, and hope you enjoyed making some discoveries to refresh how you see the Bible and your life together.
The Prayer Year runs from Advent 2009 to December 2010, when the Evangelism Year begins.
| The Evangelism Year booklets have now been mailed to local churches that have signed up for Vision4Life.
You can take a look at the booklet and download a pdf by clicking the image. Large Print Versions Note about the mailing: If you have told us of any changes in mailing requests since mid July, please bear with us as we may not have caught up immediately. We are dealing with nearly 700 individual bulk mailings and late changes after the advertised deadline of 15th July require a manual change of details apart from the automatic generation of labels from our database. If we don’t get it right first time, please just drop us a quick email to let us know and we will try to get it right as soon as possible. |
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| Evangelism Year resources will begin to appear on this site but for now, here is a document with a few ideas from churches that could be used as a link to the evangelism year. | Download PtoE – moving on ideas.pdf here |
| NEW A Theological Introduction to the Evangelism Year This is a presentation written by Francis Brienen for Eastern Synod ministers and offered for use by others. There is a text document and a Powerpoint. The text is written only in note form and is useful as a starting point for your own presentation. |
Download theological intro to V4L Evangelism Year.pdf |
| NEW Exploring Evangelism – a taster session This powerpoint presentation offered by John Hall is designed for s synod meeting and to be interactive, around tables. It also gives tasters of different parts of the booklet. |
Download ExploringEvangelismTaster.ppt |
| NEW Don’t let the sun go down A new prayer with picture by Heather Whyte |
Download Dont let the sun go down… with picture.pdf |
Advent Prayer Stations – Gospel Beginnings
| These prayer stations have been produced by Dave Coaker, minister at Leyland and Penwortham, and provide a useful link between Prayer and Evangelism Years. There is a document for the text and another for setting up. | Download Prayer Stations Gospel beginnings.pdf |
Click the images below to link directly to the relevant page, or use the main menu at the top
Praying our daysWe have now exhausted our printed copies but you can 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 |
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Building our relationship with ChristIn 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.
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Prayer toolkitThe 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. Items inlcude: Prayer and the Bible – NEW Praying with psalms – Prayer Stations – Daily Prayer – Prayer Crafts – Breadmaking Prayer – Telephones, texts and emails – Listening in prayer – Praying hands - 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. |
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Prayer LinksHere 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 |
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Other resourcesSome resources already used by other people have been submitted. Initially these include
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You can access many of the resources by clicking the links above or using the top menu drop down options
If you’re new to Vision4Life you’re joining more than a third of the churches in the URC which have signed up. You can find out more here
Hopes and Prayers
We have really valued the opportunity to discover more about prayer through our search for Vision4Life material and hope and pray that this year for you may also be a real blessing and bring a deepening of your prayer life too.
Vision4Life is a process which the United Reformed Church is following for 3 years from Advent 2008 through to Advent 2011. It is three years of focus on re-engaging with the Bible, Prayer and Evangelism with the purpose of bringing transformation to the URC and its partner churches. Take a look through the contents of the site using the menu at the top or select items from the Prayer Year menu to the right. You can sign up to the process as a local church or join in the forums as an individual. There’s lots to discover and the site grows week by week with resources, comment and news. Enjoy!
