The streets were surprisingly sparse as the small band of hopefuls set out into the dark chilly night on All Hallows Eve 2020, their fluorescent jackets and candle holders glowing in the dark.

They stopped to pray at various locations scheduled for this patrol, beginning at Easton, Easton Way, through St Agnes, and into St. Pauls, then cutting back through St. Werburghs to finish on Stapleton Road. 

These are familiar grounds for most of the team members, and they are aware of how far things have moved for the better since the early days of Peacemakers Prayer Patrols, when crimes, gangs, and violence marked these areas. Then, Patrols were visibly out prayer patrolling days and nights.

The highlight of the night took place on the Green outside the St. Pauls’ Learning Centre in St. Pauls. Here they formed a Prayer Circle by placing lit candles in a circle on the ground and linking hands, as the City Safety Patrol officer read a prayer she had composed and written especially for the occasion. “That was a very moving moment for me,” remarked a new volunteer afterward.

THE PRAYER

As the team gathered to pray, several youths were also gathering in the distance across the street, and they were behaving very badly, throwing fireworks in the air and at passing cars. This did not perturb the group, they persisted in prayer, and in a short space of time, on hearing the Police siren the youths scrambled and ran away.

The people in each area seemed very welcoming and happy to see the patrols, most hailing them in a friendly manner as they passed by, with both sides maintaining the social distancing rules.

Along the main high street in St. Pauls, a woman stopped and asked them to pray for her knees. The group prayed for her on the spot, and there was a distinct tone of relief in her voice as she thanked them and waved goodbye. Later on, they stopped to speak with the young owner of a newly opened Beauty Salon. She said she welcomed the prayers and their encouraging words for the future of her business.

The night got progressively colder, and as they came to an end of the Patrol, someone commented, “At least we did our part, we can only hope that we did some good and lit the darkness.”

Written by Reverend Palmer, Chief Commissioner – PEACEMAKERS

The City Safety Patrollers and Prayer Patrols are looking for volunteers to join them for the upcoming Be Safe Night Nights in particular Halloween October 31st, 2020, and Bonfire Night November 5th, 2020. A short training is required for persons wishing to participate in these Patrols.

Training will be conducted online via “Google Meet” where details of the Be Safe Nights patrols, patrol areas, and personal requirements, will be revealed and explained. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions during this time.

Interested parties are invited to log their interest via the Contact Page on the website at www.peacemakersprayerpatrol.com OR by email to peacemakersprayerpatrol@gmail.com, and they will be sent a link, with instructions on how to join the ‘Google Meet’ training. Anyone with a Google account Gmail email address will find the ‘MEET’ image whenever they tap on the Gmail icon either on their phone or PC. The instructions to join via the link we send will be quite straight forward and easy to navigate.

We look forward to Being a part of Safer Bristol and the PEACEMAKERS Global vision for Creating Safer Communities and a More Peaceful World.

Need Prayer today? Go to the CONTACT US or PRAYER REQUESTS section on the website. Enter your details and what you would like us to pray about. *Please note your personal information is kept safe and only be shared with the Practitioners praying for you.

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Peacemakers, officers, foot-patrols, in-house practitioners, admin staff,  website manager, all give of themselves selflessnessly and tirelessly to the ministry. They give their service to provide space and place, physical accessibility for neighborhoods prayer support, online information, prayers, prayer support and encouragements, financial upkeep for equipments and uniforms, awareness events, monthly meetings, and travel expenses, and upkeep of our website. But most importantly is the time they give. Each person gladly sacrifices his or her time and energy for the love of you. Their vision and goal is to create safer more peaceful communities in our neighborhoods, in this generation, and for generations to come. Your Donations helps to meet these goals. Your gift of giving makes our service worthwhile. THANK YOU.

PEACEMAKERS Patrols are well known locally and globally for the air of peace and harmony they create in areas they patrol. More recently teams of City safety Patrols and Prayer Patrollers focused their attention around a few schools in  Easton, Eastville, Whitehall, and the Fishponds areas of Bristol. Here they wield their super energetic prayer presence, to bring calm, restore neighborhood confidence, and promote good behaviors among the youths. 

Below are some picture highlights of their activities.

Peacemakers are here to Pray for and to offer Prayer support for you and your loved ones. If ever a time we need Prayer it is now. Prayer can move mountain they say, but prayer can also be the quiet hush of comfort in your soul when you are worried, confused, feeling lost, do not know where to turn, feeling alone or abandoned, sick, or afraid.

Prayer Works both on a surface level but also on the inside as an invisible relief.

Why not try Prayer today? Go to the CONTACT US or PRAYER REQUESTS section on the website. Please enter your details there and what you would like us to pray about. Your information will be kept safe with us and it will only be shared with the Practitioners that are praying for you.

There is a scripture that speaks of five unwise people who got locked out of their blessings. These people were also called foolish ones. There are ten persons in total, the five not mentioned in our story today are called the wise ones. For our story here we will be looking at the foolish ones. They all had the same opportunities which were to receive a great big blessing, with the added bonus of meeting and spending time with the CEO and source of the blessing.

The foolish ones spent their waiting time looking about the physical readiness of the situation. Much like what is happening around us today. People everywhere are mostly concerned with managing their physical health, exercise, nutrition, and so on. And these are good, but, there is that which is better, and still, there is what which is best. And so the foolish people went off to do more of these good things, just in case.

And so it is that while they were gone or were otherwise preoccupied, their Blessing came, the CEO and source of the blessing came. The wise ones who were duly prepared and watchful received their Blessing and were invited to spend time with the CEO. By the time the foolish guys returned or tried to correct their attention, they realized that they had lost their opportunity to their blessing.

What is the moral of this tale for us today? The answer surely must be “Prayer in the time of Corona”. Yes, we need to safeguard ourselves physically, such as social distancing, washing of the hands for 20 seconds, not touching the face, etc, and, staying in except for emergencies. Even a child can roll off these todos.

But there is something higher, deeper, wider, that must take our attention, and that is Prayer. Prayer is our connection with the source of life, which is what we are all trying to preserve. Life is the CEO of our existence, yet most are unconcerned with this Life, whom some call God. Even in this time of pandemic Life does not seem to interest them.

“But, we need to turn in earnest to prayer, not to a god outside of ourselves as many have been taught to do, but to the Life of life that lives you even now. And there, in your faintest reaching out Life/God will rush in to assist. In fact, the secret about prayer is found when you come to the realization of your need to connect to the source of life. Here, you will have turned your attention inward to possibility, to the intelligence of your immune system which is full of all the vital information you need for a physically healthy immune system. And so your consciousness of Life sets the course for healing and health by sending a vibration of ease throughout the body’s field. ” Dr. Palmer – h.c. Wellness Studies, CCUIC

Praying health in the time of Corona

PPP Practitioner UK

Stay well. Stay safe. We are daily praying health and wellbeing for you and yours. Peace

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Peacemakers, officers, foot-patrols, in-house practitioners, admin staff,  website manager, all give of themselves selflessnessly and tirelessly to the ministry. They give their service to provide space and place, physical accessibility for neighborhoods prayer support, online information, prayers, prayer support and encouragements, financial upkeep for equipments and uniforms, awareness events, monthly meetings, and travel expenses, and upkeep of our website. But most importantly is time, and each person gladly sacrifices time and energy for the love of you, to make and see peace in our world, hopefully in our generation, and for generations to come. Your Donations helps to meet these goals, and  make our service worthwhile. The more you GIVE is the more we recieve, the more we RECEIVE is the more we are able to DO. THANK YOU.