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The February 2024 citywide prayer gathering is hosted by New Community church, at Central Hall, Sunday 4th Feb at 4.00pm We believe God has a special purpose for this meeting. At the SoHOP half night of prayer in January six new people turned up. As we gave our introductions it turned out each one of… Continue reading Citywide Prayer Feb 2024

We are meeting with Street Pastors on Monday 15 July at 6.30pm to prayer walk in Thornhill. We pray for the Thornhill community, the work of the Street Pastors, and any specific requests from the street pastor team.  Meet at Thornhill Baptist Church at 6:30pm.  Click here for a Facebook event you can share with… Continue reading Prayer Walk with Street Pastors

We are very excited to support a Good Friday ‘Walk of Witness’ across the city on Friday 29th March 2024. This is organised by a range of churches working together and the purpose is to remember why it is called Good Friday.  Three crosses will be carried across Southampton from 11am, meeting together at the… Continue reading Good Friday 2024

In September 2023 Southampton House of Prayer re-grouped / re-launched. Over early in 2023 we realised SoHOP had become more of an organising committee than a praying community. There was still a lot of prayer going on, but at the core of SoHOP we are more like a committee organising a few prayer meetings. So… Continue reading Sept 2023 Re-launch

We are gathering at Holy Trinity Weston this month for the birth of a new church. Yes, a new church is being planted in Weston!! We will be praying together with them at the citywide prayer meeting on Sunday 4th June at 6.30pm. This is indeed a historic moment and as we look at the… Continue reading Citywide Prayer June 2023

For many people in Southampton, Sunday 2 April stands out as the ABP Marathon day. But it is also Palm Sunday. And on that day we have a special citywide prayer meeting at Riverside Family Church at 6pm.  In preparing for this meeting we have been pondering what Jesus did on this most famous of… Continue reading Citywide Prayer April 2023

It is evident that a youth revival is stirring. Youth want truth. Activated in prayer and ignited in mission. Rip up the programme and give them God.  We also have a new resource to help 11-16 year olds connect with God through prayer. The Origins Course. See https://www.24-7prayer.com/resource/origins/ Please join us in praying afresh for… Continue reading Citywide Prayer November 2022

A review of the Ancient Paths learning community by one of the participants of the 2021/2022 cohort. To find out more see Exploring Ancient Paths. I signed up for the Ancient Paths course because I had been reflecting on a desire to establish a rule of life but couldn’t see how to make it work… Continue reading Ancient Paths 2021/22

We are glad to be at St James Road Methodist Church for the citywide prayer meeting in July. For more about our vision for gathering together, see sohop.org/citywide-prayer. PLEASE NOTE – there are two churches fairly close together on St James Road. The Methodist church is NOT the one next to St James Park. It… Continue reading Citywide Prayer Sun 3 July 2022

A message from Southampton Christian Network steering team: All Southampton Church leaders are invited to a breakfast on Saturday 16th July 2022, from 8.30am to 10.00am. Please share this message widely. Laying down SCN for something new Southampton Christian Network has been functioning in one form or another for over 30 years. It has been… Continue reading City Church Leaders Breakfast

by Pete Greig Father God, King of all nations, we cry out to you now for the people of Ukraine. We ask you to rescue those who are vulnerable from the hands of their enemies that they may live without fear before you all their days [Luke 1:74-75]. Kyrie eleison – Lord have mercy.Lamb of… Continue reading A Prayer for the Crisis in Ukraine

This page is in our Personal Revival collection.   In Psalm 119 there are 9 verses in the King James Version that say ‘quicken me‘. In the New American Standard Version, this is translated as ‘revive me‘. Matthew Henry wrote a commentary on the bible in the early 1700’s. He also wrote prayers based on… Continue reading Matthew Henry – Prayers for personal revival

This page is in our Personal Revival collection.   We recommend an excerpt from “The crucified life”, a book by A. W. Tozer. He observes that a revival cannot occur in the community if there has not been a church that has been revived. And no churches have ever been revived unless individuals within the… Continue reading The refreshment of a revival

For nearly 30 years now, Southampton City Mission schools workers have been providing assemblies, Question of Faith days and prayer spaces in many schools in Southampton. They also provide much-appreciated spiritual support around the Y6 to Y7 transition time. In the assemblies the team explain that they are Christians and tell the children about some… Continue reading Praying for Schools

We are very much looking forward to visiting Pastor Benee Cullado and Passion Church on Sunday 6 February. Passion Church have a big commitment to prayer and it will be great to join with them this month. We will meet at 5.00pm to pray. PLEASE NOTE THE TIME IS EARLIER THAN USUAL!! We meet at The… Continue reading Citywide Prayer – Sun 6 Feb 2022

In addition to our existing themes, here are some specific prayer requests for January and February 2022. As we begin 2022, these are our key themes: Everything in Southampton to be underpinned by prayer.  Encouraging everyone in the church to develop a daily time of prayer, encountering God each day. Schools For nearly 30 years… Continue reading Pray 168 2022 #1 – Jan/Feb

In addition to our existing themes, here are some specific prayer requests for November and December 2021. What is the prayer that leads to revival? The Holy Spirit has given us a question to draw us into His purposes. “What is the prayer that leads to revival?” As we pray this month, sit with this… Continue reading Pray 168 2021 #2 Nov/Dec

Ending the year with treasure in jars of clay !! A break from tradition – WE ARE MEETING AT 6PM !! We call this citywide prayer because we want to travel the length and breadth of the city, praying together in as many different locations and churches as possible. Our final monthly citywide prayer meeting… Continue reading Citywide Prayer Sunday 5 Dec 2021

Southampton’s Revival Roots We continue to consider the question ‘what is the prayer that leads to revival’ as we meet again to pray for our city on Sunday 7 November. We will hear about the history of revival in Southampton from Nigel Paterson, a Southampton resident who has recently published a book about the history of… Continue reading Citywide Prayer Sunday 7 November 2021

In addition to our existing themes, here are some specific prayer requests for October 2021. The Holy Spirit has been leading us to “pray for the activists“. This is those who are called into some kind of activity to bless the people of the city.  The Holy Spirit has stirred up some new initiatives over… Continue reading Pray 168 2021 #1 Oct/Nov

August 2021. We are 6 months into Pray 168. What have you learnt through this weekly commitment to pray for Southampton for 1 hour? These are my thoughts: It is the kind of prayer where Jesus says “Go to your room, shut the door and pray to your Father in heaven. He sees what is… Continue reading Pray 168 – 6 months on

What can we learn from the monastic traditions that will help us live lifestyles of prayer, mission and justice? What rhythms and practices help lay solid foundations within us? Exploring the Ancient Paths is an 8-month learning community designed to equip disciples of Jesus to love God and love their neighbours by drawing from the riches… Continue reading Exploring Ancient Paths

On Wednesday 21 July at 12.30pm we were joined by friends from Beacon House, the house of prayer in Stoke on Trent. They were visiting every city in England during the month of July to prayer walk with a cross. The route in each city went north, south, east and west from a central point,… Continue reading Walking the sign of the cross

We are gathering to pray together on line again on Sunday 27 June 2021 at 7.30pm. During 2021 the momentum for this monthly rhythm of praying together has been growing. It is a wonderful statement of our intent to “pray continually” and to recognise this is an assignment for the whole body of Christ. We… Continue reading Citywide Prayer – Sunday 27 June

In 2021 the Holy Spirit led us to consider the question “what is the prayer that leads to revival?“. We know that God fills the earth with His presence, that we can find Him in all places, at all times. But we also know that there are times and places where He has made His… Continue reading (13) Personal Revival

OUTLINE: It doesn’t matter whether or not you voted for our city’s elected officials. Either way, they still have the power and authority to make a huge difference to the well-being of our city and its individual communities, so they definitely need our prayers. They need us to ask God to guide them in their… Continue reading (12) Local Government & Law Enforcement

OUTLINE: The economy and business life of our city embraces a wide range of subjects: employment and unemployment; retail, hospitality, manufacturing, financial services, logistics; the docks and the vessels that come in and out of them carrying food, cars, goods and passengers. Southampton is in many respects a ‘Gateway City,’ one that people and goods… Continue reading (11) The Economy, Business & Life of our Gateway City

OUTLINE: We all face health challenges at different times of our life. They can be in our bodies, in our minds or in our spirits. Health care providers of all sorts are a huge blessing to us and the NHS has to be one of the most wonderful features of the life of our land.… Continue reading (10) Health

OUTLINE: It is clear that there is an environmental crisis in the world at present. Pollution by man and the global warming it produces is a reality and we’re feeling the effects in our climate, our health and our altered geography. If we don’t take more serious steps to safeguard the integrity of creation, the… Continue reading (09) Care for the Environment

OUTLINE: There are now more people aged over 65 in the UK than are aged under 16, so we are an ageing society. Growing older has its own joys and challenges – more time with retirement, but declining physical and mental health and mobility, perhaps reduced income, and increasing dependence on help from others. PRAYER:… Continue reading (08) Older People

OUTLINE: Children and young people are often thought of as the future: but they are also the present. And they are our present from Jesus. Their experiences of the present also form the adults that they will one day become. So it is our duty as Christians in Southampton to bring Jesus into the present… Continue reading (07) Children and Young People

OUTLINE: Jesus calls us to love our neighbours and we’re often good at doing this through our many acts of simple, tangible service as Christians within our local communities. These are all wonderful, but another valuable way that we can love our neighbours is by praying for them. It’s a way that is open to… Continue reading (06) Community Life

OUTLINE: Everyone suffers, but a church flock often looks to leaders to be strong; almost superhuman. We expect our pastors and leaders to deal with whatever comes at them and to remain unflinching in faith, whatever the size of the challenge – and the challenges that they face in our present secular society and changing Church… Continue reading (05) Church Leaders

OUTLINE: Higher than any other need is the need for our society to return to God. To turn from going our own way. To return to Him. Our great desire is to see a new awakening to God across our city. The precursor to this is the passionate, persistent prayer of the church that brings… Continue reading (03) Repentance Leading to Revival of Faith

OUTLINE: The foundation of the House of Prayer is our devotion. Our single-minded pursuit of His presence. Now is time to worship, to pour out your heart for Him. To rest in his presence. To ascribe greatness to Him. As we come into His presence, we are changed. Let all our praying arise from this… Continue reading (01) Seek Him Only

This page is about a day of prayer we took part in on 8th Nov 2020.  As we face a winter of increased problems with covid-19, the churches in Southampton are responding to the calling of the Holy Spirit to organise a day of prayer on Remembrance Sunday, 8th November 2020.  Our actions are prompted… Continue reading Day of Prayer 8 November 2020

24-7 Prayer Online Gathering – 30/31 October 2020 We highly recommend this online event to all believers in Southampton. We are anticipating that the Lord will again move powerfully among us to renew our vision, restore our souls and compel us to pursue Jesus. This is an online event and open to all. Please consider… Continue reading 24-7 Prayer Online Gathering

We’ve been on lockdown for 2 weeks now. Here is a round up of resources to help us: Prayer Spaces At Home: 8 simple ideas for practical prayer activities that are suitable for the whole family.  Graves to Gardens. An offline, low-tech, all-ages project, designed to help households celebrate Easter together. It explores a wide… Continue reading Easter Week Resources