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 serving with partner organisations on Interseed.io - a virtual House of Prayer - connecting and informing praying people, the Church and ministries globally. There are many thousands of people praying each month on this growing community! We are pleased to be partnering on the project with our long-term friends / co-sponsors based in Singapore - Christian Artists, Asia.
We are joint pioneers of the PrayerHub.tv project, which connects believers in prayer from around the world. Its current phase has mobilised and informed many millions of people globally.
Our National Director, Andy Page is on the Leadership Team of the International Prayer Council, he is Project Manager for Prayer Alert and Europe Director for the 2 Billion Children initiative.
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 mobilised broad prayer support for the 2020 Lambeth Conference.
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…