Crosswinds Prayer Trust was founded in 1994, at Nailsea, near Bristol in the South-west of England by Canon John Simons. Its aim is to mobilise, inform and equip people for Christian Prayer....
Many people will be familiar with the Crosswinds Week of Prayer initiative which established a continuous 52-week canopy of prayer for the United Kingdom, through a partnership of interceding churches, organised and mobilised throughout much of the grid of the UK's 124 post-code areas. The project started in Bristol in 1994 and involved many hundreds of churches and church groupings across the UK.
Crosswinds was launched in 1994 nationally - at Westminster, London at the House of Lords. The first National Director was Jane Holloway. Jane strengthened the foundations before leaving to head up the prayer department at the Evangelical Alliance and later the World Prayer Centre. She was succeeded by Canon John Simons.
Locally, our team are involved with Churches Together in Weston-super-Mare and District and co-ordinate the Love Weston initiative.
The Crosswinds team partner in producing and publishing the Prayer Alert weekly e-news prayer digest. The project is run under the auspices of the World Prayer Centre, Birmingham.
We are working with partner organisations on PrayerHub.tv. The project seeks to create a virtual House of Prayer - connecting and informing praying people, the Church and ministries globally. A pilot project has successfully completed in early 2019. We are working with a Singapore based company and our sponsor - Christian Artists, Asia on the next generation of the technology.
Our current National Director, Andy Page is on the Leadership Team of the International Prayer Council and the steering group for United Prayer Rising, Europe.
Crosswinds also co-ordinates international partnerships of intercession, using the Internet - for example during the Lambeth Conferences of 1998 and 2008. We were supporting but not co-ordinating the Primates 2016 gathering. We will be supporting broad prayer support for the 2020 Lambeth Conference but not in an official capacity this year.
Alongside numerous other ministries, we are supporting and undergirding the Archbishop of Canterbury's Intentional Discipleship initiative.
If you share our vision, or would simply like to know more, please contact us. Meet the team…