A service to celebrate the World Day of Prayer, will take place in Ripon on Friday March 4.
The service, which is open to all, will be held at St Wilfrid’s Church Community Centre in Trinity Lane, starting at 10.30am.
It will be led by women and focus on prayers contributed by women from across the UK.
Pat Clark, a member of the Ripon committee for the World Day of Prayer movement, said:
“The service is held all round the world, so that at any moment in time on the first Friday in March there will be prayers raised to God on the topics selected by the preparation country. Young people’s and children’s activities are also provided.”
The service, at St Wilfrid’s Community Centre, is open to all
She added:
“It is an international ecumenical organisation, which enables women all over the world to share the ideas and concerns of the writing country (in which they live).
“The UK committee has chosen the Bible text ‘I know the plans I have for you’ from Jeremiah to reflect on some of the issues facing community today- poverty, domestic abuse and disability, finding hope in difficult situations and encouragement in the help people can give to each other.”
Preparation for the day takes several years, with an international committee, based in New York coordinating the work of national committees and facilitating the creation of the annual World Day of Prayer.
Initiated by Christian women in the USA and Canada in the 19th century, the World Day of Prayer has developed into a worldwide ecumenical movement of informed prayer and prayerful action.
Its first services in England were held in 1932.
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