Year: 2021

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2021

Week of prayer for christian unity - the vine and the branches

Introduction The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is actually an eight-day observance or “octave” of prayer. It has been this way since the beginnings of this international movement in 1908. This is now the Sword of the Spirit’s 11th year of participating internationally in this worldwide observance.  This year we are using the Bible passages proposed […]

COVID-19 – A Sign from God? 
Part 3, December 2020

– by Bruce Yocum December, the end of the calendar year 2020, and COVID-19 is still with us. Here in England, where I am living, severe new restrictions have just been introduced, eliminating almost all possibility of people celebrating Christmas together with more than immediate family or household. There is concern that a new strain […]