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It’s D Day for the Thames Gateway Prayernet
 This coming Saturday 6 June, intercessors from south Essex and north Kent will gather on opposite sides of the Thames Estuary to join in simultaneous prayers and remember the part the region played in D Day in 1944.
This will be the third Thames Gateway Prayer Day of 2009, part of a series of such days of strategic intercession bringing together people on both sides of the river in one vision and action.
On the Essex side, folk will begin gathering at Westcliff-on-Sea’s front at 6pm before making their way out to the Crowstone – an obelisk marking the beginning and end of the Port of London Authority’s jurisdiction in Victorian times (it now goes out as far as Margate).
Almost directly opposite, just off the Isle of Grain, is the Crowstone’s ‘sister’ obelisk, the London Stone. A group of Kentish intercessors will gather there.
Prayers will be said using a prayer guide and shofars will be blown across the river. Unlike the previous Thames gateway Prayer Day at the forts of Coalhouse and Cliffe, visual contact is impossible, but with mobile technology at hand we can at least speak to each other.
We’ll be praying for Essex, Kent and the Thames Gateway into London; for Parliament (ahead of their prayer week starting this coming Monday); and referring to the spiritual significance of D Day.
Anyone is welcome to join us – for more info please contact Tim Harrold on 07 929 878 089 or tim@transformationthurrock.com.
During World War 2 there were several national days of prayer, all of which resulted in deliverance or victory for the UK and her Allies as they fought to stem the threat of the anti-Christian philosophy of Nazism in its bid to conquer Europe.
To hear King George VI’s D-Day speech and call for a day of national prayer, go to http://archives.cbc.ca/war_conflict/second_world_war/topics/1317-7880/.
To read and hear President Roosevelt’s D-Day speech and call to prayer, go to http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/fdr-prayer.htm.
The next Thames Gateway Prayer Day is on Saturday 5 September when Essex and Kent intercessors will pray at either end of the QEII Bridge
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Tim Harrold, 05/06/2009 |
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