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Streetprayer began in 2007 when we visited all households on our street, inviting them to a prayer breakfast. Twenty people came to the first breakfast and we now hold regular monthly breakfasts or other events on our street or in the area around.
When anyone moves into a street our members welcome them and invite them to the next month's event. We've found that not only is this a great blessing to Christians but it also builds a bridge over which people have come into the Kingdom of God. Read on and see if you'd like to join us! May God greatly bless your neighbourhood!
 General poster which you can use now.
Displaying it will help Christians in your area to find and get to know each other. Click on the poster and print the pdf. If you would like a word template to design your own poster please register online and we will send one with images of your area. |
Next event in Marston, Oxford, UK, where Streetprayer began. You're welcome to join us wherever you live. Come along and meet the team!
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FORTHCOMING EVENTS: (Last updated 17th April 2012)
2012:
May: Saturday 12th May 9am - Oxford UK: New Marston prayer breakfast at
the Somerset, 241, Marston Road, Marston, Oxford OX3 0EN
Saturday 2nd: Third prayer breakfast in Banbury Road area, North Oxford. Please enquire for details.
2013:
Saturday 2nd February - Big Breakfast and World Streetprayer Day - an opportunity for us to encourage people around the world to find their Christian neighbours, share a meal and pray together for their area.
WHAT´S IT ALL ABOUT?
"That all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me."
We´ve discovered it´s a huge blessing when Christians who live near each other find, fellowship and pray together. Streetprayer is a tool to help this happen: to help Christians who live near each other find and get to know one another. There is great power in unity and prayer, and from this base the whole neighbourhood is gradually transformed.
Church leaders are enthusiastic about Streetprayer:
Charlie Cleverley of St Aldates, Oxford: "I welcome the Streetprayer initiative as a breathtakingly simple way to get to know other Christians in your street (unity) and to get to intercede for the Oxford area (prayer). I pray that these two keys - unity and prayer - would turn in Oxford´s locks, and the flood of revival would flow! God loves Oxford and has a plan for her for good and to give her a future and a hope. But it seems in history He waits for heart unity and He waits for prayer.
Vaughan Roberts of St Ebbe's Oxford: “I’m a great believer in streetprayer. It’s wonderful for Christians from different churches to get together unitedly in love for one another, get to know each other and then encourage each other to get to know their neighbours. Our communities aren’t as strong as they might be. And if we Christians start by getting to know each other and then reaching out in love to others, that could make a real difference to our city. So I really commend the work of the prayer breakfasts.”
Marcus Roberts of Rivers of Life Churches : "For me, Streetprayer is an answer to so many questions I had: Why is it that every Sunday we dash across the city to our various congregations year after year while all the time living alongside Christians we have never met or hardly know? Why is it that when "The entire law is summed up in a single command: “Love your neighbour as yourself”, we spend so little time with our neighbours? Why do neighbours come and go, and we never get to know them? Streetprayer helps us to reverse that trend and see our neighbours coming into the Kingdom as a result. Having experienced it at work since 2007, we're deeply grateful to God for what Streetprayer has helped happen on our street and we highly commend it to you."
For more comments see our testimonials page
How to become part of Streetprayer:
Stage 1: Take two minutes to register. We will then design a poster for your street that can be edited for any events you choose to organise. Your area will also be marked on our online map and you will be able to email and be emailed by members living nearby and can advertise your events in the comments box. (NB all personal details including email address, house number and street name are kept private and will not be displayed.) It will be like sowing a seed which "Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and perch in its branches” (Matt 13:31,32). Start praying now and the seed will germinate and grow!
Stage 2: Display your poster in your window, church building, newsagents or elsewhere. At first you may like to display a general poster, not advertising any event. This will alert people in your area and help you find others to pray with. Ideally download and forward the PDF to a local printer and print as many A2, A3 and A4 copies as you can display. Please email us if you need help to do this.
Stage 3: Pray together with your neighbours. Come along to one of our events in Marston, Oxford UK and meet the team!
Stage 4: Organise together an event to invite people to. Register and log in for editable posters, flyers and a suggested program. Please let us know what you're doing and we'll post your details on the website, together with any posters you design.
Stage 5: We need workers in all areas: prayer, evangelism, administration, website, etc, so if you believe the Lord is calling you to help us please email.
May the Lord bless and transform the area you live in!
Our Streetprayer user map
Once you have registered, log in and you will be able to see your postcode. Click on this and you will see your marker on the map.
Life on your street!
Our dream is to see on our streets the wonderful joy experienced when the Church was first born,
as expressed in Acts 2: "All the believers were together.....They broke bread in their homes and ate
together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favour of all the people. And the
Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved. "
How it started
Imagine visiting each household on your street and inviting all the residents to a prayer breakfast!
That is how streetprayer began on September 15th 2007 on Edgeway Road, Oxford, UK.
There are about 100 houses on the street. A simple letter was produced and with the support of local churches, teams of two people visited every house. Now there are over 25 people from our street and over 30 from the surrounding area meeting every month for breakfast, prayer and praise! We are deeply grateful to God for what has happened. It's hugely strengthened our faith to see God's love and goodness spreading to every household in the road. We also hold weekly prayer meetings and a weekly meal inviting different residents each time.
Inviting people to a meal is something Jesus Christ encouraged us to do: “Jesus said to his host, “When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or relatives, or your rich neighbours; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.” (Luke 14:12-14)
Neighbouring streets
For our first anniversary we gave letters to about 500 households on the neighbouring streets, inviting them to a prayer breakfast in a local Scout Hall. About 40 people came, including two local councillors and the community policeman! Now people are joining in from the streets surrounding ours. As new people move in, we welcome them into the area. Please see the testimonials page for comments.
Plant a seed and watch it grow
We're all busy, so even if you are not sure about committing yourself to regular meetings, just to find out who lives on your street and meet other Christians living locally is a great blessing. Imagine being able to say hello and exchange prayer requests each day. This alone is a huge step forward.
You'll find that just meeting once will mean that you get to know many Christians in your area. It will be like planting "a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air perched in its branches."
All streetprayer workers are voluntary, but publicity costs are considerable. If you'd like to help with the costs of streetprayer, it would be greatly appreciated and help the initiative to grow. Please visit the donate page.
Please start praying for the street and area where you live to catch fire!God bless you!
The streetprayer team.
Last Updated ( Friday, 11 May 2012 21:26 )
