From Ascension Day to Pentecost, parishes across the
Diocese are joining with Christians worldwide in a ten-day
wave of prayer. This is the second year of the initiative from
the Archbishops of Canterbury and York and this year it’s
become a global movement with Christians around the world
praying together for more people to come to know Jesus.
Throughout our own diocese, many of us will be getting involved with prayer events
planned in deaneries and parishes throughout this week. We hope people will also
join us in pilgrimage – walking from the four compass points to form the shape of a
cross as we converge in Worcester for a service of praise and celebration at 7pm on
Pentecost Eve next Saturday. Those in the north of our diocese will have their own event
at 2.30pm on Pentecost itself (next Sunday). Christians of all denominations will be
gathering in Priory Ruins to pray for Dudley Borough.
Together we’d like to cover the ten days in a wave of 24/7 prayer and hope as many
people as possible will join in and ‘pledge to pray’. As Archbishop Justin says: “In praying
‘Thy Kingdom Come’ we all commit to playing our part in the renewal of the nations and
the transformation of communities… I cannot remember in my life anything that I’ve
been involved in where I have sensed so clearly the work of the Spirit.”
Please pray for all that is happening
around this initiative. And from now until
Pentecost pray particularly for more people
to come to know and love Jesus.
Lord, Thy Kingdom Come.
Dudley Deanery – Rural Dean: Dominic Melville
Diocese of Exeter: Bishop Robert Atwell with
Bishops Nicholas McKinnel (Plymouth) and Sarah Mullally (Crediton)
Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland (Norway): Bishop Olav Øygard
The Anglican Centre in Rome
Diocese of Nike (Nigeria): Bishop Evans Jonathan Ibeagha
