The annual local World Day of Prayer Service will be held in Vankleek Hill on Friday, March 7.
This year’s service begins at 2 pm at St. John’s Anglican Church. This year’s bilingual service will follow a program prepared by the women of the Cook Islands, near New Zealand.
Other area churches, including Knox Presbyterian, St-Grégoire, Trinity United, St Jude’s (Hawkesbury) and St-Pierre-Apôtre (Hawkesbury) will be participating in the World Day of Prayer Service.
World Day of Prayer is an international, ecumenical movement which enables us to hear the thoughts of women from all parts of the world: their hopes, concerns and prayers. The preparation for the day is vast, the service begins with the writing country and theme being chosen a number of years earlier. Once written it goes to the WDP International Committee in New York for translation and dissemination to the National Committee in each participating country. The service is then discussed and edited before being presented nationally, regionally and then locally for branches to make their plans. The chosen theme this year is ‘I made you wonderful’ and is based on Psalm 139, verses 1-18.
The Day of Prayer is celebrated in more than 120 countries. It begins in Samoa and prayer in native languages travels throughout the world — through Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas before finishing in American Samoa some 38 hours later.
For further information and resources, see the WDP website for Canada: www.wdpcanada.ca.
