NEWHAVEN CHURCH
A SELF-GUIDED PRAYER WALK FOR HOLY WEEK 2025
This prayer walk for Holy Week 2025 is an opportunity for you to walk around the community of Newhaven with your heart, your mind and all your senses open to God. It combines reflective devotional elements as well as encouragements to pray for specific parts of our community.
In devising this walk, we are conscious that at this time many in our community face difficult challenges in their lives. The cost of living crisis brings worries for many people and the long term mental and physical impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic continue to be felt. Wars and conflicts overseas have brought people to our community seeking refuge, as well as leaving us all with a sense of unrest and unease.
At Easter we celebrate the Good News of Jesus’ resurrection from death, but we wish to avoid any suggestion that this means all the difficulties of life will melt away. Most likely, they will not. Rather we wish to encourage a willingness to hold those difficulties as we patiently wait upon God’s kingdom. Perhaps it is through the pain of
those difficulties that we can better see how and where Christ brings light into the world.
The map is a guide only, as are the suggestions for prayer below. Feel free to adapt them as you feel appropriate. Rely on your own words and thoughts, and do not worry that God might not understand what you’re thinking or trying to say. God will.
Leave space for simply being silent with God.
You can walk alone if comfortable with that, or in pairs or as a small group. However you go, please do take care as you cross roads etc and be aware of your general safety. We do not recommend this walk in the dark.
How to take part in the Prayer Walk
To take part in the Prayer Walk you can either follow the PDF document which you are welcome to print out, or follow online on a smartphone also using the link below.
Download the Prayer Walk PDF below
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