Can you support financially?
18 Jul 2016
We asked for people to pray with us in June as we face a drop in our finances and a significant rise in our activity. We believe we are at a spiritual tipping point and that WPC is being called to extend its overseas work and impact (we have been asked to lead some times of significant national and international breakthrough). In the UK we are bringing the prayer movements together, working as watchers to understand the changing spiritual picture in the nation and provide increased numbers of prayer resources for individuals, small groups and churches. Increasingly we are providing up-to-ate, accessible and daily prayer information. We also run a range of prayer events including the new Trumpet Call event at the ICC.
We felt that it was important to let people stand with us and pray. As a prayer ministry we have to be prepared to take our challenges to God. We were delighted by the warm response and support and have received about £8000 to date. Our target is to get £8000 a month additional income to carry the day-by-day work and £30,000 to enable trumpet call. So we are praying for a financial breakthrough – or we will run out of money in the coming months. We want to have a great giving testimony and give glory to God.
Can you give £5 or £10 a month to help us continue to mobilise prayer for our nations and equip people to pray? Become a monthly giver.
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We thank you in advance for your support!
There is no panic in heaven!
18 Jul 2016
There is no panic in heaven!
A major part of our calling in WPC is to pray for many people in the world, probably the majority, who live in one form of crisis or another. The result of all this crisis is that millions of displaced people are desperately searching for safety and hope; children and young people are being used as trade-offs in evil negotiations and fear and panic grip many people's hearts even in so called affluent societies.
We also have a duty and privilege to remind everyone in every form of communication at our disposal, that Jesus Christ the Light of the world, is Sovereign over all. Today in this same world, the light of Christ is shining forth in the power of the Holy Spirit through the church - the Body of Christ, so that every day thousands upon thousands from every tribe, every people group, every religion and creed are becoming followers of Jesus.
Every day we, as part of God's family around the world, from the rising of the sun to its setting, join with countless millions worshiping and praising God. In every continent the Kingdom of God is advancing, light dispelling darkness, faith overcoming fear and praise replacing despair.
Today with you, we stand in unity with our brothers and sisters in this global village, in the Middle East, across Africa, across Asia, across the Western world and say together, that by His Grace and Mercy we are not slaves to fear, we are not controlled by the warmongers, the traffickers, the financial institutions, or any power in the heavens above, we are sons and daughters of our Father in whose Kingdom there is no panic.
Written by Ian Cole, World Prayer Centre
Leprosy Mission in Myanmar
12 Jul 2016
The Leprosy Mission, (TLM) an international Christian development organisation, diagnoses, treats and offers specialist care, including reconstructive surgery, to people affected by leprosy. Its aim is to help transform and empower the lives of people affected by leprosy.
Leprosy is a disease of poverty and as well as providing healthcare, TLM offers rehabilitation, education, vocational training, small business loans, housing and fresh water supplies and sanitation to tens of thousands of people each year. TLM provides a springboard to restored health, self-sufficiency and renewed hope. Its services are provided regardless of religion or ethnicity, promoting equality and social justice.
Please pray for TLM's work in Myanmar:
Give thanks that, in Myanmar
- 500 plus people affected by leprosy or disability have been trained and started income generation activities
- 200 people have received physiotherapy and assistive devices
- 1,027 people benefited from improved water supplies
- 700 people from improved sanitation in Eastern Shan State
- Give thanks that patients visiting Mawlamyine Christian Leprosy Hospital, in Mon State, Myanmar, can now wait for their treatment in a bright and airy room with comfortable seats. Thanks to funding from
Jersey Overseas Aid Commission, the new, spacious waiting rooms are part of the new outpatients department.
- Please pray for those patients who arrive at this specialist referral centre, over 6,200 of whom will be affected by leprosy and others with other disabilities, TB/HIV/Malaria and general patients. Pray that they will have the courage to come forward.
- Pray for people affected by leprosy from Eastern Shan State in Myanmar, many of whom were driven from their homes simply because they had leprosy. Pray against the stigma which still exists for people affected by leprosy. 3,000 new cases of leprosy are diagnosed each year in Myanmar and some are shunned and rejected because of the diagnosis. Pray that through education this stigma will be reduced and eradicated.
- Give thanks for the amazing work being done to rehabilitate the leprosy-affected into new villages and for wonderful supporters who enable The Leprosy Mission to provide medical care, health training and education about leprosy. Schools are also being built in partnership with other agencies to increase educational achievement in children.
- Pray that the Disability Resource Centres and drop-in centres elsewhere in Myanmar will be able to continue to provide physical rehabilitation through physiotherapy to overcome disabilities, as well as counselling and emotional support.
- Give thanks that in over 100 rural communities, 1,500 families affected by leprosy have been helped, including about 150 leprosy patients who have undergone reconstructive surgery.
#shareprayer
12 Jul 2016
Do you have a story to tell about how you prayed and God answered?
Our God is a good Father who wants what's best for His children. In Matthew 7:7 says, 'Ask and it shall be given to you', so when we are going through situations and we ask God for a breakthrough or a miracle and He answers, God wants us to testify for His Glory.
"Give praise to the LORD, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done, and proclaim that his name is exalted. Sing to the LORD, for he has done glorious things; let this be known to all the world." (Isaiah 12:4-5)"
Our testimony of how God has answered our prayer can be just the encouragement that someone else in a similar situation needs to hear! It can help them to see that God is real, that He hears us when we call and if He did it for you He can do it for them too.
So... we want to hear about what answers to prayer you have had from God. We then want to share it on online so that others will be inspired to try prayer when there seems like there is nothing else to do.
If you have a story, send it to us along with your details to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or you can send via our social media with #shareprayer and we will contact you.
Let's start spreading some hope and love and the good news of Jesus through our answers to prayer!
Olympic refugee team
08 Jul 2016
For the first time since the games were inaugurated in Greece in 776 BC, a team of refugees will compete in the Olympic Games. Ten refugee athletes from Syria, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and the Congo will be in the newly-formed Refugee Olympic Team, competing in swimming, track and judo. When the team enters the Maracana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, during the opening ceremony on 5 August, they will be representing not their country of origin but the millions of refugees worldwide. Their anthem, instead of a national song, will be the Olympian theme, and their banner will be the Olympic flag. Open Doors USA's director of communications Emily Fuentes says that having a refugee Olympic team is meaningful since it 'brings attention to the unprecedented refugee crisis that we're having in our world right now. For the refugees, having athletes to represent them in the Olympic Games will show that they still have a place in the world.'
Sprinter praises Jesus after amazing comeback
08 Jul 2016
She was told she might never run again, after major knee injuries in 2008, but instead sprinter English Gardner qualified for the Olympics this weekend after becoming the fourth-fastest American in history. Gardner won the 100-metre sprint at the US Olympic track and field trials in Oregon on Sunday in record time. According to NBC, her time would have won an Olympic gold medal every year except 1988, when Florence Griffith-Joyner ran 10.62. When Gardner crossed the finish line she was overwhelmed and immediately started praising Jesus. 'Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Oh, God I praise You. I give you so much glory,' she said, slapping the ground while on her knees. The video of her record-setting race has more than one million views and 15,000 likes along with 800 comments. See:
Post-Brexit: keep praying
08 Jul 2016
As the implications of the referendum vote continue to sink in, it is vital that we keep praying for this nation at such a significant moment in its history. May Christians across the nation know that in these uncertain times God is our rock, and live and proclaim the good news of the Gospel in villages, towns and cities. We also pray blessing on Europe, that the Gospel will flood the nations, remove the barriers and make the way for His kingdom to come to every nation on the continent. For more useful material, click on the 'more' button and download prayer topics based on the Lord's Prayer.
Political parties in transition or disarray
08 Jul 2016
After the second round of voting by Conservative MPs yesterday, the two remaining candidates are Theresa May, the Home Secretary, and Angela Leadsom, minister for energy and climate change. There will be a postal vote by Conservative party supporters to decide the outcome: the winner will become the next Prime Minister. Meanwhile, it is still uncertain whether Jeremy Corbyn will face a challenge to his leadership of the Labour party, and Nigel Farage has announced that he is stepping down as leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), which supported Brexit.