Aid agency Tearfund are urging Christians from around the world to ‘light up' beacons of hope for the world's impoverished communities through a week of prayer.
Hundreds of thousands of Christians throughout the globe are being asked by Tearfund to participate in One Voice 2011, a worldwide week of prayer focused on social justice issues and ending global poverty.
Tearfund Chief Executive Matthew Frost said: “One Voice 2011 hopes to make an incredible difference to the world’s poorest people, those suffering social injustice and the effects of natural disasters.
“As Christians, when we engage with God in prayer, we re-focus our hearts on the mission Christ calls us into - to love our neighbours, to reach out to people living in poverty and care for those in need.”
He added: “When we as the people of God around the world ‘light up’ like this – united as one global movement – together – we light up the darkness."
Tearfund are producing resources to assist Christians in reflecting on urgent social issues, and will specifically be highlighting those still suffering in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake, as well as thousands of refugees displaced by post-electoral violence in the Ivory Coast, and those affected by the floods in Pakistan.
One Voice is a program that is being partnered by 24/7 Prayer and churches will being requested to organise around the clock prayers spaces throughout the week, from 27 February to 6 March 2011.
The 'One Voice’ movement also has provided a Twitter page at twitter.com/onevoiceprayer where key prayer themes will be Tweeted and reTweeted to further involve Christians in the pray effort.