FAQs

What are the plans for 2024?

This year we are piloting the initiative in Barnet, Newham and Tower Hamlets from April 19th for 3 months. The app that will provide them with the ability to see how their borough gets covered with prayer and the experience of these pilot areas will inform us as we prepare to cover the whole M25 region in prayer in 2025.

If you are in these areas please get involved and let those within your church, we would encourage you to partner with other local Christians to pray for your parish, estate or street together. How could you collaborate to walk your community’s streets together to pray for those who live there to know Jesus’ love?

For Church Leaders

The app is being provided in May-July 2025, but the length of time and how your church community engage with that is up to you.

If your church focuses upon prayer within the 10 days of Thy Kingdom Come leading up to Pentecost you can cover your parish within that window.

Other churches may find their diary more suited to prayer walking in preparation for mission later in July or may want to engage with the app during the whole three months and cover as much of their area as possible.

The App

What resources are there to help me?

Resources, prayers and guides to support churches and individuals to walk, pray and bless are available on the resources page.

The app page has a guides about how to use the prayer walking app.

Resources

How has this worked elsewhere?

Other cities who have engaged in similar activities, have explored churches providing guided prayer walks, group pilgrimage, themed prayer walks (eg. for youth or families and children) or even ‘worship and walk’ times where people gather to worship in a public space before setting off to walk.

Working with churches locally to provide a range of options for people to engage with will increase participation within your area.

What does the app do?

The prayer-walking app we will be using in 2025 (and in pilot areas in 2024) provides a map view of your area and shows which streets have been prayed in, booked or waiting to be covered. Through the app individuals can see how the church working together can impact their area. The app works through a link to the prayer walking map that we host, so you do not need to download a separate app to your phone.

The App

Can I sign up as an individual or does my church have to sign up?

It is for anyone. Whist we invite church leaders to formally partner with the initiative and share the details with their congregations it is as easy as registering on the website and walking out of the door. Having others from your church to walk and pray with is beneficial, but not essential.

How can I get involved?

We will be holding three briefing meetings and zoom calls for those interested in finding out more.

A Barnet briefing is happening on April 16th and then two central London Briefings on April 17th and 21st May.

The zooms are on Monday 22nd April at 7pm and Thursday 2nd May at 11am.

Please register to receive notification of these events.

How can I find out what’s happening in my area?

Sign up here to get updates and information

We would particularly like to hear from those in Barnet and Tower Hamlets or from those who could facilitate TKC here in their borough by connecting local churches with the vision please.

This year our pilot areas cove three boroughs. Contact the relevant borough facilitator to find out about the plans within your borough.

Barnet
David Vincent, London Prayer, david@LondonPrayer.com

Newham
Simon Clinton, Transform Newham, simon@highwayvineyard.org

Tower Hamlets
Mark Bishop, House of Prayer for East London, revmarkbishop@gmail.com

If you are in another London borough and would like to be a TKC Here facilitator for that area in 2025 please contact David at the email above.

What’s the result from where this has already happened?

City wide prayer walking has been happening in cities across the UK for the past few years. Places like Portsmouth, Coventry, Sheffield, and Wakefield have covered their whole city in a month.

The partnerships that have happened through the collaborative prayer have strengthened unity between the local churches. Praying in the community has led to greater mission and community engagement by the church.

Many people who have participated tell how their own prayer has changed as well as stories of those who have discovered Jesus through meeting those prayer walking.

Sheffield in March is covering the whole city in prayer for the fourth year - some stories and insight can be found here.