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Sophie and Jessica

This is an extract from an illustrative story used as the basis for one of the facilitated sessions at the first LEW summit.You can listen to the full story read by Hannah Skinner here (1:04mins onwards). This is a story about two little girls – Sophie and Jessica. Both of them are full of potential [...]

The language and nature of poverty

The following article and group activities were taken from the Life Expectancy Wirral section of the Chester Diocese website. The aim of Life Expectancy Wirral is to enable Christian communities to respond to the issues surrounding the unacceptable differences in life expectancy on the Wirral, through action and prayer. The programme began early in 2009 [...]

Children & Families

Children & Families: A Biblical Reflection by Phil Jump. Family life, in some shape or form is a reality for all of us. It is part of what it means to be human, to grow up in an environment with other human beings and to remain in some form of relationship with that family throughout [...]

Local Pray for Wirral expressions:

A number of people have made enquires about whether or not they can partner with Pray for Wirral to form a local expression in their area; Pray for Wallasey for example. Each conversation has been driven by different groups and/or individuals and each has featured slightly different thoughts. However, the desire in essence is the [...]

TFH – Year of Continuous Prayer

In 2009 over 60 churches in the Mersey Region cooperated together to cover every week in prayer. They were from virtually every denomination and independent churches. It was powerful and so TFH made the decision to do the same in 2010; a decision that we are very much in support of. You can find out [...]

Merseypray & Pray for Wirral

Merseypray is an initiative that seeks to resource and help local churches to develop their ministry of intercession, and to draw Christians across Merseyside together in common purpose. Dividing the year into three “seasons”, Merseypray offer a particular prayer focus for each of these. Each seasons is launched by a launch event, and a resource [...]

Life Expectancy Wirral

Our prayer theme for Spring 2012 is the Life Expectancy Wirral Project and the wider themes of poverty and deprivation. Life Expectancy Wirral (LEW) was developed to respond to the fact that people living on the Mersey side of the Wirral die, on average, nearly 12 years younger than those on the Dee side. As [...]

Wirral ‘Awakening’ in 1905

The following is a Wirral focused chapter from Geoff Green’s brilliant research booklet Revivals in Merseyside. “So what was it that the Christians of this period had that brought such spiritual blessing… There are a number of factors that have become evident to me during my period of research and I would like to suggest [...]

Wirral’s Future – Have your say

At the Pray for Wirral launch event on the 17th October Bishop Keith Sinclair made reference to a hugely important consultation exercise that is being run by Wirral Borough Council. As the Council website suggests “Wirral Council is facing the same budget challenges as other Councils and needs to adapt. We want local people and [...]

Listen to the Launch Live

RECORDING COMING SOON You can listen to tonight’s launch event live on Flame Christian Radio either by tuning your AM radio to 1521mw or on the internet here. The History of Flame 1521: In June 2000 four people (Norman & Mark Polden, Mike Smith and Adrian Bryan) set up a radio station in Wirral Christian [...]