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Saturday Morning
Prayer Meeting
The ministries of HK have been supported
faithfully in prayer by prayer warriors over the
years. Many of those have seldom missed a
Saturday morning until the Covid19 pandemic
entered all our lives.
This pandemic led to the shutdown of all
church related ministries on 20 March. During
the shutdown a group of the regular Saturday
prayer meeting attendees set aside Saturday Perhaps as you read this you think that those
mornings from 8.30 to 9.30 to pray in our own who attend are some sort of super spiritual
homes following a format of worship songs, elite. You could not be further from the truth
devotions and prayer topics which was but one thing that we do share is a deep love
coordinated using text messages. This time and desire to meet to share and pray together
was very special for all of us with many prayer for ourselves, our own and the wider church
requests being shared at such a unique time in families, our staff and missionaries, our land
the history of the UK. and the world. We have a deep conviction that
prayer is the single most important ministry
When Government restrictions were lifted and in our church and that none of the wonderful
churches were allowed to open, the first face work that goes on within and outside the walls
to face meeting to start in the church was the of High Kirk can flourish and be a blessing
prayer meeting on Saturday 4th July in the without prayer behind it.
Birney room with a maximum of 13 people to
enable social distancing rules. It was a meeting As the leader, one of my greatest encourage-
like no other, one I don’t think any of the eleven ments has been to see people who have
who were there will ever forget. Such a sense come to faith recently through Alpha join the
of joy that God had protected us and allowed Saturday morning prayer time. It has also been
us to meet together once again. Each person an encouragement for everyone in the group
was able to share about their experiences to see the development of a second corporate
during lockdown, some had known great times prayer group PUSH within the church. It is
of nearness to God and others, myself impossible to read either the Old or New
included had found it a very difficult and Testaments without realising the vital
challenging time. Sadly, not all who have importance of God’s people meeting together
prayed faithfully for so many years have been to worship and pray and call out to God to send
able to return for health reasons so the His Holy Spirit to come and heal our people
average attendance has been 10 so, there is and our land.
still room for a few more or indeed any
number more if we introduce a rota.
Trevor McIlroy