Holy Rood Church, Swinton
A local church serving its community
Women's World Day of Prayer
Friday 7th March 2008
2 pm at the United Reform Church
Worsley Road Swinton
If you attend the above service, you can become one of over 3 million women worldwide who will be praying and worshipping together during an annual day of prayer on Friday 7th March.
They will be using an order of service prepared by Christian women from Guyana. Emma Wilcock, National President of Women’s World Day of Prayer in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, said:
"This is always an exciting day. The extent of unity in prayer is shown by the fact that meetings will begin at sunrise in Tonga and finish only with sunset in neighbouring Western Samoa, after there have been meetings in over 170 countries.
In the British Isles, there will be well over 6,000 prayer services in different places. They bring together women, men and young people from every background and a very wide range of Christian traditions."
Many women of Guyana still bear the marks of those who experienced and fought against slavery and the system of indentured labour, with the imperialism and discrimination which that involved.
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.
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.
Office Address:
Holy Rood Church
Moorside Road
Swinton
Salford
M27 0HJ