Women's World Day of Prayer
Friday 5th March 2010 at 7pm at St Edmund's

The Women's World Day of Prayer is an annual, world-wide event when people meet together to observe a common Day of Prayer following the same order of service, always on the first Friday in March.

It is a great Wave of Prayer and Praise which encircles the globe all day long from sunrise over the island of Tonga until sunset off the coast of Samoa. More than 170 countries now take part. The actual form of the service is composed by women of a different nationality each year and is then translated into about 170 languages and a thousand dialects. A tall order!

The service for 2010 has been devised by the women from the Republic of Cameroon and they have chosen the theme "Let Everything that has Breath Praise God". It reflects the fervour of their worship and their exuberant and reverential outpouring of praise to God in wonderfully joyous music, dancing and singing. Do come along and experience this for yourself! To the people of the Cameroon, God's greatest gift is that of life and they enjoy it fully.

Said to be "Africa in miniature" Cameroon has a wide variety of climatic conditions, great natural diversity and with more than 240 ethnic groups, many cultural differences and tensions. All these aspects are incorporated in the service they have composed. We also have the privilege of members of the Cameroonian and other African communities participating in our celebration on Friday 5th March.

So everyone - men, women and young people put on your most colourful clothes, adorn yourselves with bright scarves and join in this very special World Day of Prayer.

We also welcome members from St Andrew's, Lidgett Park Methodist Church, Immaculate Heart and the Society of Friends to join in the choir as well as in the congregation.

If you are unable to attend St Edmund's, additional services are held as follows:-
10.30am Moortown Methodist Church, Alderton Rise, Leeds 17
11.00am Chapel Allerton Methodist Church, Town Street, Leeds 7
2pm Gipton Methodist Church, Oak Tree Place, Leeds 9
2.30pm Blenheim Baptist Church, Blackman Lane, Leeds 2.

We do hope you will manage to attend one of these Services.

Joyce Sundram