The Revd Bill Phares, a Methodist minister from Alabama, along with his wife Laura,
responded to God’s call to come and pray for God to stir the fire again in the UK.
They prayedat numerous historic Methodist sites,
and invited others, especially Methodists, to participate.
Bill writes:
I don't know who will read this but I am specifically writing this to Methodist Christians who are concerned about the future of our denomination. I believe we have been discussing the issues dividing us and missing the simple reason for our dilemma. We have become a mini version of our country; "us against them." This is not a conservative versus liberal issue. This is not a "we are right" and "you are wrong" problem. This is not an evangelicals against progressives fight.
"For we are not contending against flesh and blood..." We are spinning our wheels and have missed the entire reason for the conundrum. Ours is a spiritual conflict and can only be addressed corporately. The source of our division is principalities, powers, world rulers of this present darkness, spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. I am calling on our Bishops across the denomination to lead our annual conferences in praying against these principalities in the name of Jesus. Together we can take back our denomination and experience unity in the bond of love. We cannot afford to wait but rather advance in unified spiritual warfare on behalf of our beloved church.
Bill has recored several 50-second videos about the power and presence of God in the meetings of John Wesley, to watch them visit Bill Phares on YouTube
Itinerary
March
1 - Tue - 6:00 pm leave Alabama (Birmingham)
2 - Wed - 10:45 am Bill & Laura arrive in London
3 - Thu - Wesley sites in London:
10:00am Wesley’s Chapel 49 City Road
10:10am Bunhill Fields Burial Ground 38 City Road
10:20am Whitefield’s Tabernacle site Tabernacle Street and Leonard Street (corner)
10:40am Foundery site Tabernacle Street
10:50am Finsbury Square Finsbury Square Moorfields
11:15am John Bray’s House site 5 Little Britain, Aldersgate Street
11:30am Wesley’s conversion plaque Nettleton Court, Aldersgate Street
11:45am St. Bartholomew Parish Church Cloth Fair, Barbican, London
1:00pm Fetter Lane Chapel, Fetter Lane, London EC4A 1BX
1:35pm West Street Chapel, 26 West Street,London WC2H 9NA
4 - Fri - Bath & Bristol
2:00pm Nexus Methodist Church Nelson Place East Bath BA1 5DA
3:00pm Whitefield Tabernacle Trust, near Kingswood BS15 2HR
5 - Sat - Cornwall - 5 March is St Piran's Day - the Patron Saint of Cornwall
10:30am Gwennap Pit, Cornwall TR16 5HH
12:30pm Wesley's Cottage, Trewint, Cornwall PL15 7TG
6 - Sun - Bristol:
11:00am Freedom Church, Kingswood, Bristol, with Pastor David Hull BS15 8DB
2:00pm Hanham Mount, Mount Hill Road, Gunning Close, Hanham BS15 8QT
3:00pm Charles Wesley’s House, 4 Charles Street, Bristol BS1 3NN
3:30pm New Room, Broadmead Courtyard, 36 The Horsefair, Bristol BS1 3EE (prayer infront)
7:00pm MET Online Prayer Meeting
7 - Mon - Bristol:
1:00pm Pill Monument, where Wesley sent off Coke & Asbury to the New World
2:00pm Devauden Village Green Devauden Village Green, Wales
8 - Tue -
9:00am Mow Cop Methodist Chapel, Primitive Street, Mow Cop ST7 sNH
9:30am Mow Cop Castle, Camp Meetings site, ST7 3PA
10:15am Christ Church Macclesfield, Bridge Street, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK11 6EG
11:45am Todmorden Edge Farm, Parkin Lane, Todmorden OL14 7JF
1:00pm Halifax, Heptonstall Octagonal Chapel, Northgate, Hebden Bridge HX7 7ND
9 - Wed -
10:30am Duke Street ,Whitehaven, Cumbria CA28 7EU
Glasgow - site seeing
10 - Thu -
Edinburgh
11 - Fri -
10:00am Dunbar Methodist Church, 10 Victoria Street, Dunbar, East Lothian
12:15pm Wesley Square, Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 3DY
2:00pm Yarm Octagonal Chapel, Off High Street, Yarm Stockton-on-Tees TS15 9AJ
2:45pm Osmotherly Chapel, Chapel Passage, Osmotherley, Nr Northallerton DL6 3AA
4:45pm Tomb of Samuel Wesley, Church Street, Epworth DN9 1ER
12- Sat -
9:00am The Market Cross, Queen Street, Epworth
9:30am Epworth Old Rectory, 1 Rectory Street, Epworth DN9 1HX
12:00noon Asbury’s Cottage, Newton Road, Great Barr, Sandwell, West Midlands
1:30pm High Bullen, Wednesbury Church Hill, High Bullen, Wednesbury
3:30pm St Mary's Church, Fleet Marston, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire HP18 0PU
13 - Sun -
10:00am Wesley Memorial Church, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford OX1 2DH
10:30am Christ Church, University of Oxford, St Aldates, Oxford
11:00 Lincoln College University of Oxford, Turl Street, Oxford
11;15am University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford High St/A420
12:00noon Unlocked - Oxford Castle, 44-46 Oxford Castle, Oxford OX1 1AY
14 - Mon - Sightseeing in the UK.
London overnight
15 - Tue - 1:55pm Leave Heathrow, 10:50pm arrive in Alabama (Birmingham)