Pray

We believe that prayer can bring change, and we invite you to pray with us for the projects that we support, and for the people they work with.

In her introduction to our 2009 Lent prayers, Grace Sheppard writes that "praying for someone is an act of friendship; a reaching out; a wanting the best for a person or community."

The links on the left of this page take you to selections of prayers that others have written for us, as part of church services dedicated to Church Urban Fund's work, or in response to the stories of the lives of people who have been helped by the projects that we fund. We invite you to use them as a part of your own prayers. Your offering of prayer is a valuable gift.

The following prayer was written for Church Urban Fund's commissioning service in 1988:

Lord, we praise you for what you have given us and for what you have promised us.
Give us the courage to come out from all our churches into the world,
that our lives may proclaim your glory,
and your whole creation may reveal your love.

We give ourselves to you and ask that our daily work may be part of the life of your Kingdom,
and that our love may be your love reaching out in the life of the world.

Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.