Taking to the streets in Peterborough
 “It hasn’t rained once yet!” said Sharon Walker, Priest in Charge of St Mary’s Peterborough. This is good news for the group of Christians from Peterborough who have been outside the city’s market every Saturday morning since August, offering prayer for healing to passers by.
It’s an offer that has been taken up too, whether it’s by someone worried about a loved one fighting cancer, a young man expecting to join the army and facing up to his excitement and fear, or any number of good natured encounters with people going about their daily lives.
“The market is part of our parish”, said Michael Moore, Curate at St Mary’s. “It’s great to get to know the stallholders and we often bump into people we know from other things we do. The other day I went to visit someone about a funeral and he said, ‘you’re the bloke who prayed for me at the market the other day!’”
Prayer on the Square is an ecumenical scheme and has been the vision of Pauline Wills from Stanground Baptist Church for some time. “Things came together and it now seems to be God’s time to do this,” she said. “We have about ten people on the rota, and four or five of these come each Saturday from 11.30am to 12.30pm.”
Photo caption (above): Pauline Wills (left), Kevin Stewart and Sharon Walker (right) with passers by
Reproduced with kind permission from Peterborough Diocese
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