Pray 2-3

We’re doing a special prayer focus for the month of May

It’s a special month where we celebrate Pentecost and where we see spring blossoming all around us (It’s not just that it rhymes with pray – honest!).

So how can you get involved?

Social Media Graphics

We’ve got a set of 40 social media graphics that you can use each day through May. You can download them all here…

Click here to view graphics

You’re welcome to use them however you like across any platform, print them, use them in services or groups etc.

Praying For You Postcards

We’ve designed and created 4 beautiful postcards for members to use to send a greeting, thoughts and prayers to someone. If you’re in the East Anglia District we’ve printed 1500 packs of the 4 designs for distribution at the Spring Synod, please ask your Synod rep if you would like one.

If you didn’t manage to get one or if you’d like some for a special event, or adjusted specially for your Church (East Anglia District) just drop our District Mission Enabler, Dr Yasmin Finch a line.

Outside the East Anglia District?

You’re welcome to use the resources.

If you want to print your own postcards, click the images below for print-quality PDFs.

Posters

If you’re in the East Anglia District you can order up to three A2 posters to display at your church (they have to be the same design). Choose from the ones below and order through District Mission Enabler Dr Yasmin Finch

Outside the East Anglia District?

You’re welcome to use the resources.

If you want to print your own posters, click the images below for print-quality PDFs.

Flower Garland

For the small words you can choose between the following:

🌸SMALL WORDS A (shown above)

Would you like to feel closer to God, maybe you’d like to see if God’s real?

We encourage you to pray and see what happens. Need some guidance? have a look at…

🌸SMALL WORDS B

We’re encouraging everyone to pray a little more in 2023.

Why? Because when we pray, good things happen!

See what happens for you.

🌸SMALL WORDS – other

<create your own>

To conclude East Anglia District’s year of prayer, we’re doing a special Christmas Prayer initiative for December 2023.

There are resources here and being sent out to Circuits for you to use.

A Christmas Prayer Video

A short video of prayer and blessing that can be played in any service (particularly good for services where visitors will be joining you). You can use the YouTube copy or email our District Mission Enabler Yasmin for an ad free version.

A Christmas Prayer Banner

Circuits have been supplied with 7 vinal all-weather welcome banners to use outside their churches this Christmas.

If you’d like to download your own copy to print you can click here for a printable PDF version which can be sized up to 52cm x 91cm

A Christmas Prayer Postcards

We’ve printed 5000 postcards with a Christmas Prayer written on and sent them out to all our Circuits. If you didn’t manage to get any or would like to print more you can click here for a PDF printable version.

A Christmas Prayer Poster

A welcome poster for you to display in your church. Click the image below or click here to be taken to the PDF print version to download and print – A4, A3 or A2.

A Christmas Prayer Social Media graphics

Coming soon!

Prayer walking is a great way to pray for your village, town or city.

Come along to our Prayer Walking zoom meeting to start your journey, meet others who are interested in taking up prayer walking and learn about how to approach it.

We have Rev Nigel Fox, supernumerary in the Norwich Circuit sharing in the session and will be mentoring prayer walkers via email through the year. Rev Nigel has severe hearing loss and finds email is a great way to communicate, share his wisdom and offer people support.

Rev Nigel has many years and wonderful experiences of prayer walking.

Open to all.

Prayer Walking Zoom Meeting

Thursday January 19th 2023, 7pm

Click here to book.

Join our local Methodist Network Rep, Jenna Thorne, to take 6 weeks to dive deeper into prayer.

Sessions all on zoom.

Please do invite your church to join in with this and take this special opportunity to learn more about prayer.

🌟 How to enrich your prayer life

🌟 How to listen to God in new ways

🌟 What impact a prayerful life can have on your own wellbeing, your church, and your community.

The course will run weekly from Thursday the 26^th October to Thursday 30^th November.

Click here to book in!

Would you like our local Methodist Network Rep, Jenna Thorne, to visit your church with an interactive creative prayer workshop?

What’s it about?

The Creative Prayer Workshop explores art as a form of prayer and self-expression in God’s presence – allowing us to connect with God, ourselves and each other.

This is explored experientially, by ‘doing’ – the workshop is gentle, inclusive, and for everyone, you don’t need to consider yourself “creative” to come along

The workshop includes elements of gentle movement, visual art, and music and are for groups of around 10-15 people

Who is leading it?

Workshops are led by experienced therapeutic arts workshop practitioner, Jenna Thorne of the Methodist Learning Network, and Artistic Director of therapeutic arts charity, Talitha Arts.

Sessions last 90 minutes.

If you’d like to take up the offer and book a visit in, please drop Jenna an email thornej@methodistchurch.org.uk

Below are some ideas about prayer – ways, places, creativity – that our members in East Anglia use in their prayer lives.

If you’d like to share your own idea, we’d love to hear from you. Please email yrfinch@gmail.com

Join us for a monthly prayer meeting on zoom.

We’ll be praying together and in small groups for about 45 minutes.

Lead by Vanessa Murphy, a member of St Ives Methodist Church. Vanessa has a long and interesting ministry of prayer including special trips to intercede and pray abroad.

Click here to register for the next one – February 27th, 7pm