Cross Section: Calling into Action

Providing a chance to come and Pray for Wycombe and the nations in creative ways, with the rest of the world, on the Global Day of Prayer.
Plus the opportunity to spend time in worship, and at the Cross Section Cafe.

Join us on Sunday 31st May 2009 at the Pastures Church, Downley from 6p.m.


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Examen

At Cross-Section on Sunday we introduced the young people to the Examen. Sarah Brush led the young people through this reflection back on the day with some inspiration from (Jenny &) Jonny Baker's Worship tricks.

It's a very simple mode of night time prayer which St Ignatius used to round off the day.

Simply...

• You relax and breathe calmly
• Remember you are in God's presence
• You reflect back on the day
• You ask yourself two questions:

What are you most thankful for today?
What do you regret most that happened today?

• You conclude by thanking God for the day and all that has happened and listen to anything God has to say about it.

You can also deepen this with further questions for each of the two main questions - have a look here for some ideas of how.

How can you and your church help?

Prayer

The first way that you and your church can help us is to pray for us, the Wyde team has met and prayed together about these visions, and we believe that they are visions from God not from ourselves. For them to take off they need to be swamped in prayer.

Some prayer points for guidance are:

• That young people will come to know the Lord Jesus, and that they will grow and develop their relationship with him.
• Praise God for the vision, gifts and abilities that he has given us, that he cares for young people and that he brought us together to work with them for his glory.
• Pray that we as a team are truly seeking God’s face and not running off in our own direction.
• Prayer that we as a team will learn to work together effectively.
• That others will catch the vision, want to be involved and to see the work move forward.
• That volunteers will come forward to be part of the Management Committee

Volunteers and Advertising

Currently Wyde is the collaboration of a group of Youthworkers from within the Wycombe area, however we realise that the work God is calling us to be involved with is much bigger than we are. Therefore if we want to see these visions get off the ground it is imperative that others come and join with us, and volunteer to be used in God’s Work.

Cross-section is launching on 25th February 2007, at All-Saints Parish Church in High Wycombe town centre, it promises to be a great night, where we hope young people from all over the Wycombe area will be able to meet together and worship God. This is the first opportunity for you as a church to show your support to the Wyde vision (other than through prayer) by enthusing some of the members of your congregation to help us out, to come along and to volunteer.

We hope and pray that many young people will come to this gathering, however if they don’t find out about it, they are unlikely too. We would also ask that Cross-section becomes something that you and your church promote and advertise.