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…
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Sept 2023 Re-launch
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…
City Church Leaders Breakfast
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…
Pray 168 – 6 months on
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…
Exploring Ancient Paths
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…
Walking the sign of the cross
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,…
Coronavirus Prayers
Download: Coronavirus Prayers (Southampton). Download: An Hour of Prayer for the Coronavirus Pandemic (24-7 Prayer) March 2020: Our normal lives are being considerably interrupted by the spread of a flu virus that is now being described as pandemic in Europe. We have now been advised to wash our hands more often, particularly when we arrive…
God our Help (June, July, August)
We have a theme for SoHOP taking us through to the end of August: When we were praying about this theme, one of the team had a picture of someone reaching up and God’s hand reaching down to help them up and out of trouble. This is God’s heart for Southampton, particularly at this time. He WANTS…
Five Months – 26 churches represented
Greetings from Southampton House of Prayer. In the last 5 months 136 people from 26 congregations within Southampton have been to pray at least once. Many come back often. We are thanking God for five months of praying every Friday/Saturday for 24 hours. The unsupervised slots in the evenings and night times have not always…
Worship time – 24/25 May 2019
We began our weekly 24/1 on the 24th May with a time of worship led by friends from Kings Community Church. At this worship time someone had a picture of a banqueting table and felt that on there was everything needed for people coming into the prayer room over the next 24 hours, including Jesus’…