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Last updated 28th October 2024

Year of Prayer for Growth and Renewal

We are inviting parishes to make 2025 a Year of Prayer for Growth and Renewal across our Diocese.  The intention for the year is for parishes to pray for new and deeper disciples for Jesus Christ, and to pray for themselves that they may be cleansed and renewed in the power of the Holy Spirit for a season of mission in our centenary year 2026.

How can your church get involved?  We are inviting you to do three things:

  1. Pray together the ‘Prayer for growth and renewal’ prayer in your meetings, services and personal prayer rhythms. The prayer is below.
  2. Set up a weekly half hour service or time of prayer with a specific focus on praying for growth and renewal 
  3. Pray around your parish: rediscover the ancient spiritual disciplines walking and praying the bounds of the parish. 

In addition:

  • There will be a range of Parish Quiet Days at  Whalley Abbey so you may like to promote one of them or organise your own.
  • For Lent 2025 Bishop Philip will be making a Lent Course to go on our Discipleship App, Fruitful, which will focus on prayer. The Lent Devotional will follow the same theme.

We are currently developing resources to help you as we pray together for growth and renewal:

  • Materials to help you adapt the half hour weekly service of prayer for different church contexts;
  • Ideas to help organise parish prayer walking or traditional beating of the bounds or a walking day;
  • Videos of short stories of answered prayer for churches/PCCs to tweak and use through the year to include prayer for growth and renewal.

 

We will be launching the Year of Prayer in Advent 2024.  Resources will be available from November on our website and from Joy Rushton, joy.rushton@blackburn.anglican.org  and Sarah Marston, sarah.marston@blackburn.anglican.org

 
 

 

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