Wednesday 6 February 2008

Women's World Day of Prayer

The annual services are this year being held on 7 March, at 10.30am at Oadby Baptist Church and 7.30pm at Trinity Methodist Church.

From the Women's World Day of Prayer web site:

Women's World Day of Prayer is a global, ecumenical movement of informed prayer and prayerful action, organised and led by Christian women who call the faithful together on the first Friday in March each year to observe a common day of prayer and who, in many countries, have a continuing relationship in prayer and service.

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The service is written by a different country each year and that country then becomes the focus of the world's prayers on the day itself, which begins as dawn breaks over the islands of Tonga in the Pacific and continues across each continent until the last services of this special day are held back in the Pacific,on the islands of Samoa, circling the world in prayer for 36 hours.