Aim

To maintain and increase the position of prayer in opposing social injustice within the Speak Network. For anyone with a heart for getting into powerful, intercessory prayer for our generation and for God's world. We want to change the way we pray, by getting closer to God to allow Him to change our hearts and make us effective intercessors. We want to show how prayer is the response for Christians to situations that break their hearts, and we want to witness to non-Christian activists with a heart for the same people, but who don't know God as the answer to the same problems.

Responsibilities

Support and organisation of prayer in campaigning on issues of social injustice.
Responsible for creative/innovative prayer ideas to facilitate prayerful campaigning. Responsible for committing everything done on behalf of SPEAK to God in prayer.

Areas of activity of the prayer team

• To work with the SPEAK groups co-ordinators as they encourage prayer for issues of social injustice at university, CUs and churches. To understand the Biblical basis of the position of prayer, and be prepared to explain and facilitate this.
• To liase with SPEAK group leaders and national core team in the organisation of regular prayer events to occur across the country e.g. 24-7 prayer.
• To liase with the London network in the organisation of regular prayer walks, vigils in London, and to encourage the participation of provincial students in these as well.
• To develop new ideas of creative prayer to be used on a national and a local level (to organise their use by working with the Arts team, see points 2 and 3 above), and to be responsible for regularly putting these ideas on to the website.
• To publish regular bimonthly prayer diaries to be sent to the prayer partner network, and to develop this network as a group of "mature" Christians who are committed to praying for SPEAK on a daily basis.
• To make themselves aware of the emerging needs of the SPEAK Network and its staff, and to be in a position to pray as a team, for urgent prayer requests on a fairly instant level.
• To encourage members of the SPEAK Network about why, and how to pray.
• To attend local and national prayer events.
• To attend Flower Model weekends and meet as a team.
• To attend SPEAK prayer nights regularly across the country.
• To attend prayer walks and vigils, especially in London around the centres of power.
• To pray for SPEAK as a Network.

For more details about being involved in the prayer team contact Ben Gilchrist - ben@speak.org.uk