Orpington Methodist Church

Bringing Christ and community together

Womens World Day of Prayer

5th March 2010 - Cameroon
Informed Prayer, Prayerful Action

Women's World Day of Prayer is a global, ecumenical movement of informed prayer and prayerful action, organised and led by Christian women who call the
faithful together on the first Friday in March each year
to observe a common day of prayer and who, in many countries, have a continuing relationship in prayer and
service.

The service is written by a different country each year and that country then becomes the focus of the world's prayers on the day itself, which begins as dawn breaks over the islands of Tonga in the Pacific and continues across each continent until the last services of this special day are held back in the Pacific, on the islands of Samoa, circling the world in prayer for 36 hours. 

The symbol of the Women's World Day of Prayer was designed in 1982 for the service prepared by women of Ireland, both north and south, and was then adopted as the international logo.

The design comprises arrows converging from the four points of the compass, four figures kneeling in prayer, the Celtic cross and a circle representing the world and our
                         unity through all our diversity.

Churches Together in Orpington
Services on 5th March

10.30am St Mary's Church, Green Street Green
Speaker: Mrs Yvonne Pressdee

10.30am St Joseph's Church, St Mary Cray
Speaker: Sister Maureen Faye

Main Service
2.00pm Christ Church, Charterhouse Road
Speaker: Mrs Phillipa Allen

7.30pm St Nicholas Church, Farnborough
Speaker: Rev Alison Newman

Click here for WWDofP website