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/ 23 November 2015

#JustPray – anytime, anyplace, anywhere

#JustPray still from the film

This weekend the Church of England launched a cinema advert and online resources entitled #JustPray featuring Christians from all walks of life each praying a line of the Lord’s prayer.

The 60-second advert includes weight lifters, a police officer, a commuter, refugees in a support centre, school children, a mourner at a graveside, a festival goer and the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The advert can be found on JustPray.uk which is a “new website to promote the renewal of prayer in a digital age”. There are extra material and films on what prayer is and how to pray and the site also provides a ‘live prayer’ feed of prayers being prayed across the globe via Twitter, Instagram and Vine, using the hashtag #JustPray. Anyone can send a prayer using the ‘add your prayer’ button on the website, which can be used and viewed by anyone 24 hours a day.

The advert features lines from Jonny, from Central London who is filmed travelling through the east end talking about finding stillness and being grounded through prayer, while living a hectic urban life in the Capital. There are also excerpts from the London Community Gospel Choir during a rehearsal with an interview from Basil, who suggests that prayer gives them concentration, and focus helping the choir perform better.

There is extra material that can be shared from the website, including interviews with the Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin, the Speaker’s Chaplain in the House of Commons, who talks about how prayer helps her stop and have mindfulness in her daily life. Joe, a powerlifter, talks about how prayer enhances his life, his weight lifting, and his work reaching criminals in prisons who have never experienced the power of prayer.

The site highlights a number of links to helpful sites and suggests smartphone apps that can be used to stimulate better prayer, anytime, anyplace or anywhere.


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