Prayer

'They all joined together constantly in prayer' Acts 1:14 - prayer is vital to everything we do as a church

24-7 prayer returns to HTB. For two weeks commencing at 8.30pm on Sunday 7th March, the Wesley room (opposite Church House at HTB) will be transformed into a room of continual prayer.

For two weeks during Lent the Wesley room (nee Hut One) will be transformed into a sanctuary for 24-7 prayer and worship. In the busy-ness of life this is going to be a precious opportunity for people to stop, recharge and prepare for Easter. The theme of the prayer room this time is ‘Thirsty’ and it will explore three key aspects of God’s love, namely: 

1) Get real (Healing) – space to express your heart and get right with God

 2) Get refreshed (Filling) – space to encounter God’s love for you and to receive fresh strength

 3) Get ready (Sending) – space to explore God’s call for your life 

If you would like to make the most of this opportunity before this goes out to the wider church, go online to book http://htb.24-7prayer.com – the week is already filling up fast so book now to avoid the rush!

The prayer room also features a live Twitter feed displayed on a screen so you can send in your prayer requests directly into the room.

To send your prayer requests simply:

1) Log into Twitter
2) Follow 'HTB247PRAYER'
3) Send your prayer requests as a direct messages to us.

These then get automatically re-tweeted on our wall which is displayed in the prayer room.
We have to follow you back before you can send a direct message. We will keep a check on this so you won't have to wait long.

We have done our best to filter the content and will keep a close eye on the posts but this is open everyone so if you spot anything inappropriate please email dan.millest@htb.org.uk or emma.brown@htb.org.uk

Prayer and Worship

The foundation of our corporate prayer activity is our prayer and worship meetings where we pray for Holy Trinity Brompton (HTB), Alpha, the Church and the nation(s). We meet at 7am on Tuesdays in the term times for an hour of prayer and worship on each occasion followed by breakfast. There are also various other prayer events and opportunities to pray which will be promoted at church and listed below.

Prayer and Worship will resume again on Tuesday 12 January 2010 when we will join with Canon Andrew White's Foundation for Peace and Reconciliation in the Middle East to pray for Peace in Iraq and the Middle East. The last prayer meeting this term will be Tuesday 23 March 2010.

When: Tuesdays 7- 8am (during term time)

Venue: HTB Church, followed by breakfast

'Being part of PrayerForce and the 7am prayer meeting has really taken me out of myself and my own world. It has really helped me to engage with what is going on around me and to equip me to pray as an individual and as a community'

Prayer For Your Work Place

An opportunity to pray for those in the workplace and for those concerned to meet, encourage, and support one another. Every other week, at our Tuesday morning prayer meeting, we will be praying for those at HTB involved in a specific area of work. The prayer meeting will be followed by a Networking Breakfast for those involved in that particular field.

The fields are: Healthcare, Science & Research, Law, Creativity & Arts, Politics, Government and Public Service, Finance and the City, Education & Childcare, Fashion, Sales & Retail, Hospitality, Sport & Leisre, Professional Services, Consulting & HR, IT & Telecoms, Media, Marketing & Communications, Charity Sector, Building, Property & Construction, Industry, Energy & Transport.

Please email us at prayerbreakfasts@htb.org.uk with your name and your field of work and we will keep you posted when we are going to pray for your area of work.

Upcoming dates are:

Tuesday 2 March 2010 - Charity Sector

Tuesday 23 March 2010 - Media Marketing & Comms

Tuesday 22 April 2010 - IT & Telecoms, Industry, Energy & Transport

Tuesday 11 May 2010 - Creativity & Arts

Monthly Prayer Briefing

Every month we focus on a different issue and at one of the prayer meeting in that month we invite an expert on that issue to come and help us to pray. There will also be prayer briefings available with more detailed information and these will be emailed out to all PrayerForce members as well as being available at these prayer meetings.

November 2009: Monthly prayer briefing on Human Slavery - Ashley Varghese, International Director and Legal Counsel at Justice and Care (www.justiceandcare.org), will be coming to the 7am prayer meeting on the 10th November.

December 2009: Monthly prayer briefing on Families at Christmas - Nicky and Sila Lee, founders of HTBs Family Life & Relationships Department, will be coming to the 7am prayer meeting on the 8th December.

January 2010: Monthly prayer briefing on Iraq - Peter Marsden, Director of Operations at Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East (www.frrme.org) will be coming to the 7am prayer meeting on the 12th January.

February 2010: Monthly prayer briefing on the Environment - Revd Dave Bookless, Director of Theology, Churches & Sustainable Communities, A Rocha UK (www.arocha.org/gb-en) will be coming to the 7am prayer meeting on the 16th February.

March 2010: Monthly prayer briefing on HIV and AIDS - Phil Wall, Founder of HOPEHIV (www.hopehiv.org) will be coming the 7am prayer meeting on the 9 March.

April 2010: Monthly prayer briefing on The Persecuted Church - details to follow.

May 2010: Monthly prayer briefing on Africa & The World Cup - details to follow.

Pray for Global Alpha Training events (GATs) - the vision for the Global Alpha Training initiative is to release global Alpha expertise to meet the Alpha training needs in places yet to run courses. We want churches to go from everywhere to anywhere so that every church around the world has the opportunity to be trained to run the Alpha course. There are opportunity to get involved in the GAT initiative reaching out to millions of people around the world who want to be trained in how to run Alpha.

If you would like to be involved in this by praying for what is going on please go to http://gat.alpha.org/prayer