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…
Category: Pray 168 Theme
(13) Personal Revival
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…
(12) Local Government & Law Enforcement
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…
(11) The Economy, Business & Life of our Gateway City
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…
(10) Health
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.…
(09) Care for the Environment
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…
(08) Older People
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:…
(07) Children and Young 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…
(06) Community Life
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…
(05) Church Leaders
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…