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Thurrock Transforming prayer takes off
 Transformation Thurrock’s new Saturday morning prayer gatherings started last weekend when a small group of the borough’s church leaders and intercessors gathering at The Old Tennis Court Community House in Grays.
The purpose of these gatherings is to pray in unity for Thurrock and there was a fair cross-the-board representation of the different streams and traditions.
The next Transformation Thurrock Prayer gathering will be on Saturday 25 October at the House of Praise in Tower Road, Globe Works Industrial Estate, Grays, starting 8.30am. This venue and date have been definitely confirmed.
Meeting together in a Black Majority Church is a statement of intent that we are not only willing to work together but also see co-operation as a key to unlocking our community’s transformation.
We would encourage anyone from any church background with a heart to seeing this become a reality to join us.
You maybe a Bishop, a Rector, a pastor, a minister, a vicar, a team leader, a department head, a PA, a mission-minded activist, an community evangelist, a quiet prayer closet person, a loud travailing intercessor, a silent meditational type, a prophetic prayer walker, a youth, a child – it doesn’t matter, you are invited. The meeting will include some worship followed by sessions of focussed prayer in which we trust the prophetic will be released.
We have made the decision to not hold the ‘Big One’, as previously advertised, just yet. We feel it’s right to allow this thing to grow at its own speed, watch relationships develop between us, and get to a point where we sense it’s the right moment to begin to think about something on a much larger scale – in a school or the Civic Hall, with councillors, local dignitaries, representatives of community agencies and services, and a programme that reflects our diversity and unity, attracting not just the few faithful intercessors but hundreds of Christians from across the borough.
It’s our long-term vision to hold a large-scale annual Transformation Thurrock Prayer Day such as this, and we’d like as many as possible to explore this with us. This is why the monthly prayer gatherings are so important.
At this time of shaking in the world, there is a shaking of the church. Here in Thurrock – standing at the Thames Gateway – it’s no different. These gatherings are not jolly happy-clappy get-togethers but opportunities to seriously engage with God wants for his people at this point in history. The time for apathy and cynicism is over. The time when we were content with the Patchwork Bride has gone. The time for using our cultural differences or styles of worship as an excuse to remain apart is at an end. The time for calling on the Lord with expectancy and mutual graciousness has come.
Rise up O Church of Thurrock, rise up! Your time has come.
If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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Tim Harrold, 01/10/2008 |
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