Pray to
Pentecost
What would happen if every home, every street, and every neighbourhood in our cities and towns were covered in prayer?
This Easter to Pentecost, we invite parishes and mission units to join in a season of intentional intercession, to invite God’s transformation of our communities. Through prayer-walking and the Holy Ground app, we seek kingdom renewal—where pain turns to joy and brokenness is met with God’s restoration.
“Like Nehemiah, we are moved by compassion to bring our parish geographies before God. In prayer, we lament, we confess, we petition and we bless. In all this we express our hope for what God desires to do, and confidence in what God can do.”
At a family camp, Bishop Anna challenged the diocese to pray for every house, street, and suburb in preparation for Pentecost. The initiative involves using an app called Holy Here to mark streets with a red line. Participants are encouraged to pray with open eyes, addressing spiritual darkness and blessing households, schools, parks, and businesses. The goal is to pray for every person in the diocese to experience Jesus, recognizing a current move of the Spirit. Tips include praying for the fruitfulness of rural lands and the well-being of city workers.
The Holy Here app
HOLY here is a prayer walking app that was previously HOLYground.
Inspired by the vision of Thy Kingdom Come, the global prayer movement, this initiative seeks to spiritually re-map our cities—transforming streets, homes, businesses, and public spaces into places of divine encounter. From Easter Sunday to Pentecost, we are dedicating this time to walk our streets in prayer.
Stepping out together, we ask for God’s goodness to fill our neighbourhoods, for healing to touch the hurting, and for Jesus’ love to be made manifest in the places we live, work, and worship.
Bishop Ana says, “There is something profoundly sacred about walking our streets in prayer. As we move through our neighbourhoods, we are reminded that God is already present, inviting us to partner with the Spirit in bringing renewal.
“Like Nehemiah we are moved by compassion to bring our parish geographies before God. In prayer, we lament, we confess, we petition and we bless. In all this we express our hope for what God desires to do, and confidence in what God can do."
Thy Kingdom Come: Pray for Five!
Step 1: Identify your 5
Before we begin our 10 days of prayer, you can start asking God now who are the 5 people you are going to pray for. You are of course welcome to pray for more than 5! They might be people who don’t yet know Jesus, or perhaps people who are struggling in their faith.
Spend time listening to God.
To help you identify your people, you might like to ask yourself:
Who are the people who are friendly and curious about how I live my faith?
Who are the people who just keep popping into my head?
Have I had any surprise encounters with people recently?
Who in my family could I pray for?
Step 2: Identify who to do this prayer journey with
You might do this prayer journey alone, and that’s OK, but there’s something about praying with and alongside others. Consider gathering with others to do this time of prayer with. This might be your family, household, some friends, or maybe your small group. There are activities to do if you have smaller people in your life - we can all pray for 5.
You don’t need to share your names with others if that’s not appropriate. But as we pray alongside each other we are encouraged, and can celebrate when we see the power of God at work.
Step 3: Pray!
Each day you’ll find an introduction, scripture, activities, and a shared intercessory prayer. Read on, and get to it!
Share your stories with the Movement!
When we share what God is doing it encourages us all. We’d love to be able to hear your hopes and even your celebrations over this time.
Share your story with communications@anglicanmovement.nz. We’d love to hear from you so that we can encourage everyone.
