Transformation Thurrock : London Cracking Under Prayer

London cracking under prayer

The M25 Nutcracker - part of Global Day of Prayer London - has been taking place in various guises all around the capital.

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Prayer activities of all sorts are happening in 12 locations around the M25 region. This means 17 junctions on the M25 are covered in prayer. We are seeing these junctions as gateways in and out of the capital, vitally important in the nation's communications and commercial life.

These are - along with the nearest M25 junctions (and road numbers) -

Dartford - 1 (A206)
Welling - 2 (A2)
Sidcup - 3 (A20/M20)
West Wickham - 4 (A21)
Caterham - 6 (A22/A25)
Hounslow - 14/15 (M4)
Harrow - 17/18 (A404)
Enfield - 25 (A10)
Loughton - 27 (M11)
Romford/Havering - 28/29
Brentwood - 28-29 (A12/A127)
Thurrock - 30/31 (A13)

Some are holding prayer events and prayer meetings. Some are linking in with local regular prayer events. One is doing a prayer tent at an open air event. Another is getting together with local intercessory friends to pray.

Last week Nutcracker facilitator and Transformation Thurrock's own Tim Harrold went to a recently established centre for prayer on a trading estate in Loughton, very near to junction 27 where the M25 is intersected by the M11 coming down from Cambridgeshire. This is being run by Agape London where the pastor is Ricardo Bolus, a Phillipino. Ricardo and Tim have a mutual friend in Steve Parker, an American missionary in Ouagadoudou, capital of Burkina Faso. The church is mostly but not exclusively Phillipino, and have dedicated to praying for the UK. The room is decked out with maps and PICT1703

pictures for prayer focus on the nation and London. The centre for prayer is on the top floor of one of the indutrial units which they are able to use at a peppercorn rent from their Jewish landlord!

Tim and his wife Vera were invited along and Tim made a brief presentation about the Nutcracker which was enthusiastically received - and so Loughton are doing it this week! Tim led a section of prayer for London which was very loud and very pentecostal! There were also some representatives from a prayer room in Paris present, and they were able to encourage one another.

Tim also visited the Nutcracker 24-7 Prayer Room at Welling Evangelical Church in the London Borough of Bexley on the south side of the river. They were covering the second junction on the M25, Emm Nut Havering

the A2. Tim met and prayed with Rev Jim Charles, the Anglican minister who heads up the local Churches Together group, and Rev Martin Seymour, who is a Baptist minister now released by his denomination to facilitate Transform Bexley, which does an amazing amount of inter-church and redemptive change agency projects across the borough.

The Welling Nutcracker 24-7 was held in the church hall and had numerous stations, including a tent, copious cushions, and a lounge area. Tim spent quite a bit of time there interacting with the various themes. He drew on an enormous bit of paper in the middle of the floor the M25 encircling London, writing the words 2 Chronicles 7:14 along the road.

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Photos have been sent in of the prayer room at Emmanuel Christian Centre in Havering-atte-Bower on the edge of Romford. Here prophetic prayer walker Jane Almond painted a banner of love, which seems to be inspired by that Godfrey Birtill song, When I Look At The Blood.

These are just a few glimpses into the world of the M25 Nutcracker. GDOP London convener Dr Jonathan Oloyede is already talking about next year...

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Pictures from top to bottom:

Banner across the world by Jane Almond at Havering-atte-Bower
Big prayer floor and World Cup prayer guide sheets at Welling
Welling Tent of Meeting
Prayer Room at Havering-atte-Bower
Sofa area at Welling
Prayer wall, Welling
Candles at Welling

Thurrock's remaining Nutcracker events:

Thurrock Services, 2pm, Saturday 29th
Bridge over the M25, 3pm, Sunday 30th (B1355 between S Ockendon and Aveley)

Tim Harrold, 28/05/2010