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Press Release: Resources released to help churches welcome 2012 with prayer
 For immediate release
5th December 2011
Resources released to help churches welcome 2012 with prayer
Churches planning to mark the arrival of 2012 with prayer now have a range of free resources to help them, including service outlines and written prayers.
A call for churches to pray at some time between 31 December and 8 January has come from all the main denominations. This is through More Than Gold, the agency set up to help them make the most of the 2012 Games.
The help available, by way of free downloads from the More Than Gold website, includes outlines for New Year, Epiphany and all age services that all have their focus on praying for the opportunities and challenges of the coming year. There are also a list of prayer topics, set prayers and creative ideas for a prayer meeting.
Leading the initiative, which is called Shine for the New Year, is Jane Holloway of the World Prayer Centre. She said, ‘The coming year offers churches unprecedented opportunities to engage with their communities. Not only through the Games but also through the Queen’s Jubilee and the European Cup football. This calls us all to welcome 2012 with prayer’.
The resources can be accessed at morethangold.org.uk/shine-new-year
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For more contact: Alice Hayward, Communications Officer
07530 923 066 alice.hayward@morethangold.org.uk
Or Peter Meadows, Director of Communication for More Than Gold
07711 201 268 peter.meadows@morethangold.org.uk
About More Than Gold: Since the 1996 Atlanta Games the Christian community’s involvement with the world’s major sporting events has been under the banner ‘More Than Gold’. This provides a flag for united faith-based outreach, hospitality and service, and also an interface between the event’s organising committee and the churches.
To get ready for the 2012 Games, More Than Gold was established as a charitable trust in 2008 under the chairmanship of Lord Brian Mawhinney. It has the support of all main denominations and over sixty Christian organisations and mission agencies.
The banner ‘More Than Gold’ has been used for the Commonwealth Games, Pan American Games, All-Africa Games, Indian Ocean Games and Summer and Winter Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
More Than Gold, Unit 37 Tileyard Studios, Tileyard Road, London N7 9AH 0845 475 2012 info@morethangold.org.ukwww.morethangold.org.uk Charity no – 1121852
Transformation Thurrock has had direct involvement in the creating of these resources
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