Highfields 24hr Prayer & Fast

This culminates with a sponsored event. So, on Feb 18–19, members of 'The Edge' will be going 24hrs without food! They will be sponsored by friends, to support Tearfund's current campaign: building toilets in Africa.

Our focus in the youth has coincided with a church-wide focus on God’s view of the poor: the current Sunday series on "The Marginalized", and the 2011 motto text exhorts us to care about justice, and see that people are treated with mercy. So we are offering an opportunity to respond as a whole church family to the call of our motto text. We’d like to invite you to join us in a day of fasting. The concept of a fast is to use your meal times, (and hunger pangs!) as a prompt to prayer. Could you miss one, or all your meals between 2pm Fri -2pm Sat? Perhaps focus your prayer on:

• The youth
• Tearfund & other Christians working with the poor around the world
• Us being people who 'act justly, love mercy & walk humbly before God'

The youth have accepted the challenge – will you?

For info on the practicalities of 'fasting' see: www.uccmsla.org/images/jw/aboutfasting.pdf (paper also copies on the welcome desk). To help inform your prayers visit www.tearfund.org