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Our March Messy Church, took a closer look at life in Nigeria. through the prayerful and creative thoughts of Nigeiran women. On the 2026 World Day of Prayer, our theme was "I will give you rest, come!" and drew on activities offered by Nigerians.
On the first Friday in March, the World Day of Prayer begins on the interntaional dateline, in Samoa. Early in the morning, Christian women begin praying for our world. As the earth rotates, a great wave of prayer begins to build. It sweeps across the Pacific, touching Fiji annd New Zealand, rolling on through Asia: Japan, the Philippines, Korea, and Bangladesh. The countries of Africa and the Middle East are next. The wave reaches the shores of Europe as the day dawns there, Across the Atlantic, it moves onwards, the Caribbean, the Americas, and on to the Pacific again until the sun finally sets over American Samoa where the final service takes place. A worldwide circle of prayer is complete. 
Our core prayer activity involved looking for Samoa on a globe. We then followed the wave of prayer around the world. To hlep remind us of this, we made bookmarks with praying hands and the hymn words:
As over continent and island, each dawns lead to another day
The voice of prayer is never silent
nor do the prayers and praises ever die away!
We were reminded that we should all be FROGs when it comes to our decision making and prayer time. No, we weren't totally bouncing around being a F.R.O.G., we did reflect on what it meant to live by being 'fully relying on God'. We created our own FROG reminders decorating small pebbles as little green frogs and prayer tags added like:
Some wonderfjul Nigerian butter biscuits were made and decorated. Take a look at some of the other activities on the WOrld Day of Prayer resource page world day of prayer .
Join us with our next Messy Church on
Sunday 12th April 2026 (3pm-5pm) .
We look forward to seeing you!
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