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Our History
What do you do when your local school is vandalised? Or you hear one of the teachers has been diagnosed with cancer? Or new education policies are implemented?
Do you feel worried?
Or wonder what can be done?
Or do you pray?
The Schools Prayer Network (SPN) was started when Michael Philip, a peripatetic music teacher working in Glasgow, saw the power of prayer in school first hand. One of the schools he worked for had an enormous vandalism problem.
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The children in the Christian Union decided to pray about it and the vandalism stopped almost straight away. Michael felt that if prayer had this effect in one school, it could have similar effects in other schools in Glasgow and this was the beginning of The Schools Prayer Network.
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As it began to expand, Michael asked CARE to take on the oversight of the network, and we now have schools all over the UK covered by The Schools Prayer Network. Whilst CARE facilitates the organisation of the Network, it is supported by many other Christian organisations such as Scripture Union.
All over the UK, groups run by parents, teachers or local churches meet to pray for the schools in their area. They may get together once a week, once a month or once a term and pray for one school or several. But all are convinced that prayer makes a difference.
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