24-7 prayer at ICC: A Silent Revolution

As individuals, both students and staff, can go through difficult times where for many of us it can be hard to hear God’s voice.

At the moment amongst some in the college community there’s a general crying out to God and a longing to hear his voice. Suddenly, the lunchtime prayer meetings and other structures in place for students don’t seem to be doing the trick.

We realised that there was a need to get together and speak to God in new, radical and uncomfortable ways because God is radically and uncomfortably speaking to us through our experiences – sometimes through our pain and suffering, sometime in our isolation, and sometimes in our comfort and complacency.

Between the 18th and 25th of November, as a community, we have committed to pray every hour of every day. Seeking to hear, respond, celebrate and cry with God.

This is a time of change for many of us, a silent revolution, a prayer meeting led by those who sometimes feel they can’t pray.

We don’t know if anything will happen over the next week. But the fact that people are being inspired to pray non-stop for a week seems to show that something is already happening.

Please pray for us and with us, as we go into this new and unpredictable journey.

Sam Gonçalves (2nd year BA Theology)