House of Prayer

The Church has a vision to be a house of prayer for Macclesfield and the Nations.

We have the following prayer gatherings:

• Pre service prayer every Sunday at 10am in the Heritage Centre
• A family life group who major on prayer
• Last Thursday in the month prayer meetings for family life groups at 7.45pm  

Our aim is to have House of Prayer watches at other times that are led by a designated leader. Each watch will have an emphasis. For example,

• Intercession
• Prayer for the Nations
• Town focus
• Worship
• Healing

We recognise that there are local 'revival wells' from the past that we can dig open again in prayer, and see God pour out HIs Holy Spirit again in saving power. Of particular interest are:-

• The move of God in Macclesfield seen by the Rev. David Simpson in the second part of the 18th century. His preaching brought conviction and salvation to hundreds. He had a heart for missions, and prepared the way for children in the Town to be instructed in the word of God and educated. The home schools that he encouraged eventually gave rise to the building of a Sunday School. The current Heritage Centre is connected with this Sunday School movement in that the School moved into the building under the leadership of his Methodist friend John Whittaker.
• Methodist leader John Wesley visited Macclesfield to preach, and was also a friend of David Simpson. It is thought that although David Simpson ministered from the Church of England, his style was very much in keeping with the spiritual fire of the Methodist revival movement.
• The Primitive Methodist revival that broke out at the beginning of the 1800's on the Staffordshire / Cheshire border about 12 miles away from Macclesfield also catches our attention. This outpouring of Gods Spirit deeply impacted parts of East Cheshire and the nation. The cries of 'Lord send the fire' and of repenting sinners, in open air prayer meetings are said to have been heard coming from the hillside of Mow Cop some distance away.
• The Primitive Methodist outpouring led to God revisiting the hillside of Mow Cop in the early 1900's. Yearly gatherings of thousands of people took place well into the first half of the 20th century.