A Community at prayer

On Saturday we had a morning of prayer and reflection in the church. This had been arranged in connection with the Community Council. The turn out was not great but that can be, partly, explained by the haste in which it was organised. There had beeen no time to announce it on a Sunday but we wanted t9o act immediately. I thought it was encouraging that the council would be prepared to advertise it in the press and make it an initiative of its own. The News Letter, one of the biggest papers in Northern Ireland, covered it on tweo days including this photograph. Thankfully the Lord is not moved by the number of people nor by the sound of our voices- C.S.Lewis onece saud that when menm prayer its not that God changes His mind but that they change theirs. We need to be in the vanguard of working for change in our city and country. WEe cannot just sit back and do nothing, not even be satisfied with praying-sometimes we become the answer to our own prayers. Sometimes we have to act as a result of praying. What should the church be doing in Belfast?

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