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Global poverty prayer week (12-18 Nov 07)

We may never know the full impact of Tearfund’s Global poverty prayer week, which ran from 12-18 November 2007. Not in this life at least.

We’ve been amazed at the response and sheer volume of people who got involved with our Global poverty prayer week. Tens of thousands of you up and down the country and around the world joined the global Christian community and prayed for the poor. 

Below you'll find links to four articles about the impact your prayers had across the world.

The impact in Mozambique, Portugal and, er, the Welsh Assembly.

What impact did 20,000 people praying have on the River of Life project in Malawi?
Meet Glenys. A Tearfund supporter, she made plans to join in with the Global poverty prayer week. She decided that during the week she would set aside her lunchtimes on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to pray and fast...
More on the impact the prayer week had across the UK and Ireland.

But it's not too late to pray! Click here for some of the resources produced for the prayer week.

Global poverty prayer week in partnership with:

We are Christians passionate about the local church bringing justice and transforming lives - overcoming global poverty.
So our ten-year vision is to see 50 million people released from material and spiritual poverty through a worldwide network of 100,000 local churches.

Tearfund is registered charity number 265464     Email: enquiries@tearfund.org     Tel: 0845 355 8355 (ROI: 00 44 845 355 8355)