Prayer Support for the Lakes Ministry

Sunday 1 April - 4pm - 5pm.

Colchester General Hospital chapel (1st floor next to Wivenhoe Ward). Prayer support for the Lakes Ministry.

Please join in because Richard may be on his own! For further info please contact Richard Smith 01206 522781

Prettygate 24-7 Prayer Room 22 April - 29 April 2007

"A girl came into the prayer room at 5am in the morning. She told me she'd heard a voice telling her to go for a walk, and then she came across the prayer room. She didn't know the prayer room was there and she wasn't a church goer."

Sounds like a story from the Book of Acts? This is a story from the West Mersea 24-7 prayer shop that happened earlier this month.

24-7 prayer is coming to Prettygate. 22 April - 29 April at the Jesus Centre, King Harold Road, Colchester we'll aim to run a prayer room 24 hours a day for a week.

You can be a part of it. We need help with planning the prayer room, setting up the prayer room and taking one hour slots in the prayer room. The prayer could even be base for mission or provision for the community...

There will be a planning meeting on Thursday 5 April at 7.30pm - 9pm at the Jesus Centre. All who who are interested in the 24-7 prayer room are invited.

Please spread the word to interested people that you know. Please do contact me if you have any questions.

with love
Richard Smith

Friday Night Street Prayer feedback

Here's some feedback from Isabelle, from the Friday Night Street Prayer

22nd Feb 07

Rev5:8b-9
Is:61v1

We are fore-runners piercing the darkness.

Saw Jesus weeping for the young people.

We would be given new songs to sing – Songs of victory and songs of deliverance.

Encouraging Word for Colchester from Is 46v10
I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please and purpose

9th March 2007

Come out of this world. Come away with the Lord We need to be different and people need to see that we are.

Is 58:12 – And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt, you shall raise up the foundations of buildings that have laid waste for many generations; and you shall be called the Repairers of the Breach.
Restorer of Streets to Dwell in.

When we declared this word the Holy Spirit moved in increased power and led us in fervent prayer some of which from Michael - rebuild Celtic ancient worship.

We prayer walked the circuit around the High Street.

The anointing left at 1.30am - so obviously we did too.

Request for help from the West Mersea prayer room

The West Mersea 24/7 Stop the Traffik Prayer Room is going well. Many unchurched young people are visiting the prayer room. It's great to see the handprints filling the Freedom Wall there...it makes me feel like I am not alone in my prayers and in Stop the Traffik.

Joe Haward requests help from anyone willing to be a duty supervisor at the prayer room. This would mean being on call for a set period of time. There is a bed at the prayer room, so this could be a "sleeping duty". He needs help early Friday morning, Saturday day time and early Sunday morning. He also needs help with people filling slots at these times...

If you want to sign up to help then let Joe Haward know by phone 01206 383067 or 07708948802.

24-7 Prayer Shop opens at West Mersea

We can now confirm that the 24/7 Stop the Traffik Prayer Room Will be Held in a shop at 2 Kingsway, Barfield Road (the shop was called Lots For Tots), West Mersea, opposite the Chemist and next door to the Essex Air Ambulance Charity Shop! We will be there from Sunday 18th March until Sunday 25 March!

Free parking is available at the library on the High Street, West Mersea. This is 5 minutes walk from the prayer shop.

There are regular bus services between Colchester town and West Mersea. http://www.firstgroup.com/ukbus/southeast/essex/timetables/timetable.php?day=1&source_id=2&service=67/67A/67C/67D/67E/67B&routeid=1071908&operator=8&source=sp

Check the tide tables to ensure that you arrive for your booked slot on time...otherwise you may be delayed by up to an hour by the tide...
http://www.west-mersea.co.uk/West_Mersea_Tide_Table_Mar2007.htm

There will be a launch service held at West Mersea Free Church, Mill Road, Sunday 18th March @ 6.30pm from this we will then walk to the shop in Barfield Road! Look Forward to seeing you there.

If you want to sign up to help for that week then let Joe Haward know either via email evangelist@wmfc.org.uk , by phone 01206 383067 or visiting www.supportstopthetraffic.infoThe shop will be open from 18th -25th March, day and night!

Please feel free to visit whenever you like. We can all help end human trafficking.Thank God for this significant breakthrough opportunity. Please support us if you can.

with love
Joe Haward and Richard

Prayer for the persecuted church Sunday 4 March 2007

We have a chance to join with the Shockwave prayer for the persecuted church.
( http://www.odshockwave.org/data/shockwave/ for inspiration)

Come to the University of Essex Chaplaincy on Sunday 4 March 8pm - 10pm to join in.

love Richard