A call to pray for Ukraine – 24 hours of prayer
Friday 11th March 6pm – Saturday 12th March 6pm
Corporate prayer on ZOOM (Not St Andrew’s): Friday 6-7pm, Sat 9-10am, 5-6pm
ZOOM codes: Meeting ID: 857 2062 1407 Passcode: Ukraine
Sophie, one of our youth has organised a 24hour prayer for Ukraine from Friday 6pm until Saturday 6pm. We will have 3 times of corporate prayer together on ZOOM now, for an hour (Friday 6pm, Saturday 9am and Saturday 5pm), and then we are encouraging people to sign up for a half hour slot to pray at home for Ukraine for the rest of the time. You can sign up on the 24-7 sign up list here https://pray.24-7prayer.com/signup/2211ab (we can have as many people as we want praying each slot so don’t worry about doubling up) and you can access resources to help you pray below.
Do come and join us in person or at home!
Praying for Ukraine – some resources
- Prayer Guide for Ukraine click here
- Josiah Ventures, one of our mission partners has a prayer app that you may like to download and use with specific up to date prayers for Ukraine. Click here
- Pray specifically for Terry English, our mission partner, as he heads into Ukraine this week to provide extra relief
He writes:
“We work alongside almost 100 Ukrainian churches so right now we are co-ordinating a massive effort to get aid in and people out. We are mostly using Lviv (you can watch a video of Igor, one of the Lviv Pastors here) and Trnopel as transport hubs, which are being run by local churches there. We then bring people to one of our 2 training centres (in Poland and Czech R) for a couple of days to “find themselves” before sending them on to wherever they are trying to go (in the first wave, most people have people they were heading to), or now we are starting to find longer term accommodation for those who have nowhere else to go. Our local church is also very active – right now Hanka is on the phone with another person arranging how to set up a longer term care structure in Ostrava – kids will need schools, the mothers want to be useful, to work. We’re also working out how to make our churches multi-lingual. (into Russian of all languages…. – most older/younger Ukrainians don’t speak English so well)
Today one of our partner churches asked if I would be willing to head into Ukraine on Tuesday (8th March) for up to a week. I would be away from the war zone, initially driving food/medicine in, then shuttling refugees from Trnopel to the boarder for as many days as I feel able. My burning desire is to help any way I can (we are also arranging to host one or 2 families in our home), so it is likely I will go unless JV asks me to focus on something else this week.”
- Tearfund ‘How to Pray for Ukraine’ click here
- Pray for the Church of the Living God in Mukachevo, the church St Andrew’s has had links with for many years.
- A prayer from the 24/7 prayer movement.
Father God, King of all nations, we cry out to you now for the people of Ukraine. We ask you to rescue those who are vulnerable from the hands of their enemies that they may live without fear before you all their days [Luke 1:74-75].
Kyrie eleison – Lord have mercy.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, grant us peace.
Lord of lords and Prince of peace, our politicians are predicting the biggest war in Europe since 1945, and we simply cry out to you urgently to write another story in our time. Thwart the dark machinations of evil men. Give wisdom beyond human wisdom to peacemakers seeking an equitable and less violent way. May politicians exercise the wisdom from above, which is peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, and full of mercy [James 3:17].
Kyrie eleison – Lord have mercy.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, grant us peace.
Holy Spirit, we pray for the church in Ukraine, a nation in which 70% of the population call themselves Christian. Give our many brothers and sisters in that nation courage in this crisis that they may proclaim the good news of your kingdom, bind up broken hearts, and bring comfort to all who mourn. [Isaiah 61:1-2].
Kyrie eleison – Lord have mercy.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, grant us peace.
You Lord, make wars cease to the end of the earth; you break bows, shatter spears, and burn shields with fire [Psalm 46:9]. And so we ask you now to save the lives of many people in Ukraine. Make a peace that is strong and not weak. De-escalate this crisis. We hear of wars and rumours of wars (Matt. 24:6], but you Lord are our rock, our fortress and our deliverer. Our hope is in you. And so we address the nations now. In the name of Jesus we say: “Be still and know God! He is exalted among the nations; he shall be exalted in the earth [Psalm 46:10].
Kyrie eleison – Lord have mercy.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, grant us peace.
Amen
