World Day Of Prayer

This year's WORLD DAY OF PRAYER SERVICE will be held on Friday 7th March 2025 at 1.30pm at St Mary the Virgin, St Mary's Square, Aylesbury.All are welcome and you are invited to join us if you can. Refreshments will be served afterwards.

Our sisters from the Cook Islands have spent the last few years deepening into the theme: "I Made You Wonderful," based on Psalm 139:1-18.The 2025 programme invites us into the knowledge that each one of us was made with care and love by God. When we can receive this profound truth,
everything in our life changes and we begin to radiate and shine from within. We also learn how to treat every other person as made wonderful by God.

The Worship Service invites us to notice aspects of our divinely created bodies that we often take for granted. The scripture reading from Psalms139:1-18 is woven together with stories of three women from the Cook Islands. We come to understand that God knows us, is always with us, and
made us unique and special.

The service leads us to offer prayers of adoration and thanksgiving to our Creator, followed by prayers of confession and longing. Finally, the prayers of intercession guide us to ask God for wisdom, courage and healing, that our world would come to treat all people as "fearfully and
wonderfully made."

The Bible Study prompts dialogue around Psalm 139, particularly focusing on the relationship between God and each one of us. The study looks at 3sections of Psalm 139, each with a different focus: verses 1-6 (God knows us), verses 7-12 (God is with us), and 13-18 (God made us wonderful).

Please join us if you can at this service to celebrate the Cook Islands.

For more information about the World day of prayer, click here.