A light for every street is a project of Hope - The Next Chapter with One Voice (Hull), Kings Breakfast and Try Praying as a result from a prompting from God for the whole city to pray for Hull.

 

In light of these days of uncertainty for so many, churches are using Advent, a time of watchful waiting and lights, as an opportunity to get as many people as possible across the city praying, this Christmas.

 

People will come to a given point (a stall in St Stephen’s Shopping Centre), each thursday evening during advent, mark their street on a map, collect a professionally designed and printed prayer card and candle.  Then, as the first star comes out on Christmas Eve, each will light the candle and as they place it in a window, say the short prayer – ‘Jesus, Light of the world, please shine your light on me, on my family, on my home, on my street, on my city.  Amen’.

 

It is hoped the candle light on Christmas eve, resonating the star over the manger and an old Polish custom, has the potential to add a new ‘tradition’ to local life and bring a focus on God back to a consumer hijacked season.