For the past six months, we've been filming and recording Prayer Spaces in Schools around the UK and Ireland, interviewing children, young people, school staff and schools workers, and this is the result. (Big thanks to Nick Jones and Worthers for the filming/production.)

We hope that this video will inspire you and surprise you. We hope that it will encourage you, and that it will touch your heart too. The children and young people in this video are just like the ones where you and I live... they share the same hopes and fears, the same big questions about life and faith and everything, the same pain and disappointments, the same longing to belong. And tens of thousands of them are discovering that these simple, creative Prayer Spaces are safe places to explore all of this... and to pray for the very first time.

Prayer Spaces in Schools Video (FULL version)

You can also find this video on the Prayer Spaces in Schools Vimeo channel (along with the taster version, and a shorter 2.5 minute version), and links to it on our facebook and Twitter pages. As before, please feel free to use the embedding code and paste it onto your blogs, facebook pages, Twitter feeds, or just send the link to friends and colleagues.

Having watched this video, we hope that you will join with us in any (or all) of the following ways;

1. You can PRAY. Pray for the national team and also for local churches who are partnering with primary and secondary schools all over the UK and Ireland to host Prayer Spaces.

2. You can GIVE. We urgently need to raise funding for the coming year to continue offering all that we do to grow Prayer Spaces in Schools. Please consider joining with us as a Prayer Spaces in Schools Supporter. Click here for more information.

3. You can GO run a Prayer Space yourself. Use the resources on this website. Get trained and inspired at a workshop near you (or invite us to come and host one). Visit a Prayer Space 'in action' (if we'll email us, we'll try to connect you). And go for it.

And please let us know what you think of the video. We'd love to be in touch. :)

Posted by Phil

Phil Togwell lives in a large community house in Romford (UK) with his family (three daughters - Megan, Poppy and Angel, and one wife - Emma) and various visitors and pilgrims... exploring and experimenting with rhythms of prayer, mission, hospitality, life together. Phil is learning to cook, slowly. He likes curries, mountains, lengthy late-night conversations and reading books. He dislikes cats. Phil leads 24-7 Prayer's UK team and the Prayer Spaces in Schools team.