Guildford Boiler Room

Guildford has been involved in 24-7 Prayer from the very beginning. In the early years, we sent teams to places like Serbia, Cyprus, Thailand and Brazil, and ran numerous prayer weeks. In recent years, particularly since the publication of Red Moon Rising, many local leaders and Christians have wanted to see a Boiler Room in Guildford.

In the autumn of 2005, a group of around thirty people across Guildford came together with a heart for prayer, gathering to dream and pray about the possibility of establishing the Boiler Room. By May 2006, a core community of fifteen people were gathering regularly to meet, eat and pray together to seek God's heart for what this community should look like. We launched in November that year, having welcomed our first group of Transit students. We felt that God was calling us to focus on committed community, rather than looking for a 24-hour prayer venue.

The Boiler Room in Guildford has grown into three expressions:

Core: sharing life together through prayer, justice, hospitality, creativity, learning and mission.
Cross-church: Wider group from many congregations, who connect into the Boiler Room from time to time through prayer weeks, citywide initiatives, missions and training.
Catalyst: Training base for wider 24-7 Prayer movement, where individuals and teams are developed and prepared to go and initiate Boiler Rooms elsewhere – particularly focused on Europe.

Today, our core community has grown to around forty, with several community houses and missional groups becoming established in the town. The Boiler Room still feels very young. We want to see Guildford changed for God's glory, but we also feel that part of our identity is to train and send out those in our community to the rest of Europe.

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