Raising prayer, advocacy and awareness

Once again, your support helped Open Doors to grow our engagement with churches, parliamentarians and media, enabling us to raise more prayer and support for our persecuted family.

Open Doors produces several print and digital prayer resources to help supporters to pray regularly for their persecuted family, including a daily prayer diary, weekly emails, bi-monthly Prayer News videos and the children’s Prayer Passport. What a blessing to connect with the persecuted church in this way.

You’ve also been instrumental in raising awareness of the plight of our persecuted family with those in power.

Each year, hundreds of you invite your MP to the World Watch List parliamentary launch – and it has an impact! In January 2023, 95 MPs attended the event in Parliament. As host, the Rt Hon. Stephen Timms MP said in his opening remarks, “What always strikes me about the [Open Doors] launch is that lots and lots of MPs get contacted by their constituents who say, ‘We really, really want you to come up to the launch of the annual World Watch List,’ and, of course, having got that instruction, we all come! And it does reflect, I think, the very, very strong support that Open Doors has around the country – the deep, deep commitment of supporters of the organisation to its work.”

With seven countries from the World Watch List playing in last year’s men’s World Cup, the 2023 women’s World Cup tournament offered a precious opportunity to pray for our persecuted family. It’s one you seized, ordering around 5,000 World Cup wallcharts and other resources to help you pray for the persecuted church.

“You’ve helped open the eyes of this little five-year-old,” said Aaron, father of Judah. “There has been genuine heartache for those who can’t read their Bibles like he can, but also such earnest prayer.”