Saturday, December 10, 2005

Pray - CHESHIRE County - Prayer Requests

posted by Pray 4 the U.K. @ 4:37 PM   2 comments

2 Comments:

At 9:17 PM, Blogger Pray 4 the U.K. said...

Women here suffer from illness, mental health problems and fertility problems. (Merseyside and Cheshire have very high infertility rates).

 
At 11:56 PM, Blogger Pray 4 the U.K. said...

Cheshire County

Cheshire is jam packed full of variety, boasting Chester, a Roman city set on the borders of, Wales;Crewe ,the silk town of Macclesfield located in the Peak District foothills; historic Nantwich in the county's rolling dairy country - and Daresbury, birthplace of Alice in Wonderland creator Lewis Carroll.

There's dynamic Ellesmere Port, where waterway history comes to life; ancient Sandbach with its Saxon Crosses, the modern retail centre of Warrington - and at the heart of it all, Northwich, a town literally built on salt. Cheshire is famous too for its waterways - with more miles than any other county .

HISTORY

Resistance to the Norman Conquest of 1066 by William I and confiscation of lands by the conquerors led to ongoing dissent and resistance for many years after the invasion. Cheshire, as a remote northern and independent kingdom offered stiff resistance. William therefore forcibly imposed his will with a degree of severity and brutality . His treatment of Cheshire was particularly severe, whole swathes of land being destroyed, villages razed, crops burnt, livestock slaughtered and people rendered landless, homeless and dispossessed.

So complete was the devastation of Cheshire that in William's own Domesday Survey of 1086 most of the lands in Cheshire were recorded as wasteland, as "abandoned or useless lands" where they had been fertile and prosperous before the Conquest. Macclesfield, in particular, seems to have been especially targeted for destruction by Norman forces, as was the city of Chester, which was besieged in 1070 and eventually sacked, largely demolished and devastated. All this plunged the county into a state of utter poverty, starvation and deprivation, from which it took many decades to recover.

At Chester, William built a castle in a defensive location from where it could dominate and control the city and from whence the county would be administered. Gaps in the old Roman wall were repaired, 10 additional guard towers built, so that the inner city had a 2 mile defensible wall and walkway - making Chester probably one of the most heavily defended cities in Britain at that time.

For history in depth visit: www.manchester2002-uk.com/cheshire2.html
Chester is now a strategic place for evangelism.


PRAYER

o Pray for Chesterfest [an event planned for 2007], that it would bring local churches and the community together, that people in the community would experience the church [especially young people] in practical ways.

o For favour with the local authorities,police,fire service and local council for the event.

o For strategies for crime initiatives to be implemented to combat crime in the region.

o The church in Chester in the last four years have seen youth come to The Lord .Pray for the youth to be able to reach their generation and make impact.

o Pray for outreaches campaign-Tell A Tourist is an annual two week campaign - organised by Chester Churches - aimed at reaching visitors to Chester with the Gospel between 7th of July -21st of July.

o Pray for Freemasons to come out of darkness into the light of our Lord Jesus Christ according(2 Cor 4; 4)

o Pray for The Lord to continue to strengthen the link with Chester and Wales.

 

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