The Old Tennis Court Community

The Old Tennis Court (TOTC) is a community house – a place of healing and united prayer, and a suburban retreat, run on the principle of ‘desire lines’. A small community is growing through the gatherings that take place in the house.

The house has a dedicated prayer chapel and two meeting rooms, one very large, both with TV facilities. There is also a bedroom with en suite available for visitors to the house.

Tucked away in a quiet road not far from Grays’ town centre, TOTC is the venue for regular prayer events of all kinds:
· Thurrock Healing Rooms weekly ‘surgeries’
· 24-7 prayer weeks
· Gatekeepers of the Gateway (Thurrock’s Intercessors’ Network) gatherings
· A Year For London prayer days (every 30th of the month throughout 2008, linking in with Global Day of Prayer)
· Grays Leaders’ Prayer
· Thurrock Church Leaders’ Day of Prayer and Fasting (on the first Thursday of the New Year)

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TOTC’s office is also hub for a number of other prayer and missional activities, such as:
· The Thurrock Bar’N’Bus Project
· The Turn Of The Tide Thames Gateway Prayernet
· Ebenezer Homes and Social Outreach (supporting an orphanage and enterprise projects in Chennai, India)
· Transformation Thurrock

Regular events at TOTC are currently:
· Mondays – Open4Prayer – house open all day for prayer 9am-9pm
· Tuesdays – TOTC Community Prayer Gathering 8-10pm
· Wednesdays – Thurrock Healing Rooms 8-10pm
· Thursdays – Nurture Nite starts 8pm + occasional Nooma Nites – DVD and food
· Sundays – monthly Gatekeepers of the Gateway gatherings

TOTC is always available for prayer and retreats – to book in please contact Barbara Brown or Tim Harrold at TOTC’s office on 01375 372 887. Address: Allenby Crescent, Grays RM17 6DH.

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Tim Harrold, 24/07/2008