5,000km of prayer, and counting!

Believers from St John’s Owlerton met several times to prayer-walk their neighbourhood together during Arise:March.

By popular vote, the Arise:March Prayer app is now staying open until Easter Monday.

Believers from across Sheffield and beyond have prayer-walked over 5,000km in their neighbourhoods this Lent. From St Saviour’s in High Green, to St Chad’s in Woodseats, from Oughtibridge Parish Church to St Helen’s Church in Treeton, more than 850 believers from over 150 different churches have joined in with Arise:March, a citywide prayer campaign. 

Through the Arise:March Prayer app, prayer-walkers are planning and mapping prayer-walks, discovering and sharing prayer needs, and praying for requests sent in through banners displayed outside churches. Church communities such as St John’s Owlerton, St Marie’s, and St Thomas Crookes organised group prayer-walks in their areas and completely covered their local streets with prayer. In total, participants shared more than 165 prayer needs through the app, and logged nearly 2,900 prayer-walks. 

Patricia from St Saviour’s High Green told us, “I prayed for a neighbour I barely knew, and he came to church on Sunday!” Other prayer-walkers shared stories of how prayer-walking with Arise:March has helped them connect more deeply with members of their family, their neighbours, their church community, and believers from other local churches.

Church Army evangelist Kinder Kalsi prayer-walked 90km during Arise:March. He shared, “Often in the Bible it will mention that Jesus and his disciples walked somewhere, and when you look it up on a map, it turns out it’s 20 miles away from where they started.  What happened in those 20 miles? It would have been amazing to walk with Jesus for 20 miles. Don’t we wish we could do that? But we can, when we prayer-walk. It’s an easy way to put your faith in action. Take a prayer-walk today and be expectant for what God might do.” 

There’s still time to become a prayer-walker with Arise:March. Participants voted overwhelmingly to keep the app open until 10 April, so you can plan a prayer-walk, and discover and share prayer needs through the app all through Holy Week and Easter. 

Open up the app today to get started: https://sheffield.prayerwalk.app 

Do you have an Arise:March story to share? Email hello@arisesheffield.org