The Northern Prayer House: Prayer from Skelmersdale

Tuesday 8 November 2016

Prayer from Skelmersdale

Our prayer for those in Skelmersdale

Some people don't know who they are

Some people don't know where they belong.

We love your people Lord

And we thank you for placing us here in Skelmersdale

Our identity in You

Is more important than who we think we are

Or who others think we are

We want to be light

So that Light can banish the darkness.

Grow us, woo us

Love us, live in us.

This is your town

And your people.

We claim them for You

And we seek to grow Your kingdom here.

Cerys Smye-Rumsby

Community Development Worker

West Lancs CVS

Tel 01695 733737 | www.wlcvs.org

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What it's all about

The Northern Prayerhouse –handing on a basket full of prayers from area to area across the North of England.

Together Lancashire invites faith groups across the North of England to take part in series of prayer events and activities with a focus on tackling poverty and deprivation.

The North of England has a long history of being a House of Prayer. From the Celtic saints of Northumbria, the great abbeys, the Cathedrals and Minsters, the early, dissenters and Quakers, the Methodist revival in the midst of the industrial revolution, there has been a deep spiritual longing to transform the world as it is into the world as it ought to be.

Christian organisations and networks are addressing challenges of poverty. As austerity measures continue to bite, faith groups continue to respond, ever more stretched through lack of resources, and burdened by the higher expectations from the public sector that we can pick up the pieces.

We wish to recognise the hard work, the pressures being faced by those who care and those we care for, and the resilience and expertise of people in local communities who are at the sharp end. At the same time, we wish to highlight areas of injustice and to appeal to decision makers and to God for change.

Each area will offer prayers from your neighbour as well as your own. Your prayers will be easily transferred via an electronic ‘basket’ to a neighbouring area; there is scope for those who would like to be “pilgrim heralds/angels/messengers” to make journeys to neighbouring centres in person in the real world.