CMF Week of Prayer 2022

Most of us working in healthcare have just faced some of the toughest years we have ever experienced. As we continue to work in a health service impacted and shaped by the global pandemic we have chosen Paul's words written to the church in Corinth as the focus for our CMF week of prayer. However battered we are by work and life Paul draws our attention to the treasure we hold in our fragile 'jars of clay'.

Whatever your experiences, and whatever challenges you now face, we invite God's people in healthcare to come together in bringing our thanks, fear, hopes, cries of pain and lament to our heavenly Father. As Paul encourages us, 'pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests'.

So, join us online, nationally, locally in-person and on Zoom for a national week of prayer for all those working in healthcare in the UK & Ireland and around the world. Please also make use of the resources on this website to resource and inspire you to pray.

It is our prayer (in echo of Paul's words in 2 Corinthians 4: 16) that as you spend time in prayer and reflect on God's word that you would not loose heart and that whatever the outward appearance that you would be renewed day by day.

But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

2 Corinthians 4: 7-10 (NIV)