WORLD DAY OF PRAYER
MEDIA RELEASE 2025
Theme
“I Made You Wonderful” Psalm 139:14
The Cook Islands
Millions of women around the globe will unite in prayer on Friday 7 March to mark the annual World Day of Prayer.
World Day of Prayer is a global movement of informed prayer and prayerful action. Prayer and action are what link Christians together around the world.
A different country each year shares their faith, cultures and traditions and brings their hopes, joys and needs to the world.
The worship service this year is written by the WDP committee in The Cook Islands. The worship service includes stories of faith shared by the women and girls of the Cook Islands.
Our first Guiding Principle in the World Day of Prayer articulates that our starting point is Christian women. This has been an essential conviction of our movement over the last century. Too often, women and girls have been silenced and oppressed, making this upcoming theme from WDP Cook Islands particularly relevant. The message that we, as women and girls, are “fearfully and wonderfully” made in the image of God reinforces our movement’s support of women in expressing their faith and speaking about their lives in prayer and worship before God and in community. (from the Executive Director, International)
In Australia 2025 a contribution will be made to the Bible Society’s work in the Cook Islands that aims to reach women and children, addressing gender violence against women and girls with Bible-based Trauma Healing programs, bridging the gap of Scriptural understanding and spiritual growth of children with Sunday School teachers training.
If you would like to attend a service but don’t know where to find one, you can find the listing of all services by state/territory on www.worlddayofprayeraustralia.org Click on the heading at the top right which says Services.
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