GLOBAL DAY OF PRAYER was held on Pentecost Sunday: 31st May 2009. We are thrilled that so many churches, towns and cities have participated in our nation in the past few years. Even more centres throughout New Zealand were expected to get involved this year in conducting united gatherings of Christians to pray earnestly and expectantly for the evangelisation of this nation and the world! For more information email John Fulford.
It all began in 2001 in a stadium in Cape Town, South Africa, where 45,000 Christians gathered to plead with God for the salvation of their nation and all of Africa. In 2002 the gatherings had spread to 8 cities of South Africa. In 2003, all the major cities of sub-Sahara Africa were included. In 2004, all of the 56 nations of Africa, from Cape to Cairo participated. In 2005, Africa invited all the world to join in, and we in New Zealand were among the many that responded, which included some 28 towns and cities through this nation. This year, of the 220 nations of the world, virtually ALL are committed to taking part in some way! This is indeed the biggest prayer meeting in the history of the world! And these gatherings continue to 2010!
I sincerely hope that you will want to be included - for your church or town or city, and I look forward eagerly to hearing from you and assisting and encouraging you in any way that I can.

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Prayers for Global Day of Prayer
31st May 2009
A Prayer for the World
“They lifted their voices to God with one accord…” – Acts 4:24 Almighty God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
Together with believers all over the world,
We gather today to glorify Your Name.
You are the Creator of heaven and earth.
There is no one like You, holy and righteous in all Your ways.
We submit to Your authority as the King of the universe.
We pray with one voice to enthrone You in our hearts
and to honour You before the world.

Congregation: Lord God, You alone are worthy of our praise and adoration.

Our Father in heaven,
Thank You for loving the world so greatly.
You gave Your only Son, Jesus Christ,
to die on the cross for our sins
so that we could be reconciled to You.
We are grateful to call You Father and to be called Your children.
Nothing can separate us from Your love.

Congregation: Thank You Father, for adopting us into Your family because of Jesus Christ our Saviour.

Lord Jesus Christ,
You alone are worthy to open the scrolls of history,
for You were slain and have redeemed us to the Father by Your blood.
We confess that You are Head of the Church
and Lord of all heaven and earth.
May people from every tribe and language become Your followers
so that Your blessing brings transformation among all...

GDOP ’07  COVERAGE --  25 Brief Reports:

These are the places where we have already had at least one contact of interest in participating in the Global Day of Prayer for this year.  Below these are reports to hand on what is being planned for a number of these, plus a contact person you can phone for additional information.

Civic and government agencies respond to offer from city's churches
By John McNeil of Challenge Weekly, New Zealand.

GLOBAL DAY OF PRAYER is set for this Pentecost Sunday: 11th May 2008.   We are thrilled that so many churches, towns and cities have been participating in our nation in the past few years.  Many more centres throughout New Zealand are expected to get involved this year in conducting united gatherings of Christians to pray earnestly and expectantly for the evangelisation of this nation and the world!  For more information email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

A prayer blog has been set up at www.myprayeroom.com. This is an online prayer community where you can submit your prayers online.

Since the roundtable in Chch, we have gone up another level in Waimate. We have got back to weekly prayer meetings at 7am on Tuesday, there are leaders from 4 -5 churches who regularly attend now. For the Global Day of Prayer, we set up a prayer room in an unused factory dining room, just off the main street for 10 days before the GDOP. It was opened from 6am to 10pm, there was a good use of the room from people from the various churches. We also had a combined service based wholey on the GDOP. In July the churches are supporting a program to deliver the Radio Rhema devotional book, "The Word for Today" to every household in Waimate and to some in the outlying area. We have ordered 2000 copies. This begins on July 21st with people from the various churches coming together to walk, pray and deliver the booklets. Also in July, the vineyard are holding a town wide worship night on a saturday night in the AOG building.

See separate article under Evangelism titled "Lausanne III - 2010 Congress in Capetown" for an important link-up between GDOP and the third Lausanne Congress on evangelisation http://www.visionnetwork.org.nz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=226&Itemid=48

Prayer  Leaders  Gathering A national gathering of Prayer Group leaders was held in Wellington from 20-21 June.  The following is a summary of some of the things which were shared at that gathering of about 35 leaders from around the country.