PRAY THIS CITY

The Prayer walking map was reset to zero for the Turn the Battle prayer initiative in January and we are encouraging every believer from across Southampton to join us in praying for every street in this city in the coming weeks and months:

See the progress at PrayerWalk.app

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With the App you can mark the routes you have prayed or you can live track as you pray. You can also add specific prayer needs for the areas you are praying for.

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Leaders Collective Lunch

Next one:

Thursday 26th February 2026

All church and project leaders welcome, sign up by emailing James - contact@onebodysouthampton.com

Prayer gatherings

Good Friday Gathering

Over the past few years, we have supported the Good Friday Gathering in the Guildhall Square, run by Paul Woodman and Steve Lee.

Watch this space for news on the plans for this coming year

SoHoP Wednesday night prayer meetings for the city - 19:30-21:00 (venues tba)


28th January 2026

Other dates for the next 6 months:

• Mar - Wednesday 18th

• Apr - Thursday 23rd

• May - Wednesday 20th

• June - Thursday 18th

• July - Wednesday 15th

Previous events

‘Turn the Battle’ was a national prayer and fasting initiative bringing churches together to pray for our nation, with 3 days of prayer and fasting on 21-23 January 2026.

OneBody Southampton, together with many church leaders across the city, supported this initiative and hundreds of believers met together to pray over the three days.

Many people from across the city to the opportunity to pray and fact and a number of joint events were held to enable people to come together to pray

Those events started on Wednesday with a fresh commitment to PRAYER, appropriately beginning at 06:30 at Ascension Church in Bitterne. In the evening many gathered together for prayer and worship at St Marys Church in the centre of the city.

On the Thursday a number of events took place focusing on a fresh commitment to CONSECRATION, including a well attended prayer walk from Lordshill Church, Lordshill, to Kings Church, Lordswood, via City Life Church centre at Aldermoor Farmhouse. Prayer meetings were held during the day at Elim Church in Shirley and at Barton Peveril College, hosted byt the CU there. The evening finished up with another large and lively prayer and worship gathering at Covenant Church in Shirley.

Friday was focused on a fresh commitment to BOLD LIVING and started off with a 05:30 prayer meeting at Southampton Lighthouse International Church. The final evening was also held at Lighthouse Church where many gathered in prayer and worship, with a heartfelt prayer for the church in Southampton to be live boldly, knowing that the battle is the Lord's.

Turn the Battle prayer initiative - January 2026

OneBody Launch event - 19th November 2025

The OneBody Southampton launch event gathered together Christian leaders from across Southampton, representing 44 churches in the city and 15 charities and projects working in Southampton, 98 people in total during the day. It was hosted by St James in the Park in Shirley and included talks about the vision and activities of OneBody Southampton along with opportunities for discussion and networking between the leaders attending.

Temi opened the day in prayer before we went into a time of worship led by Nathan and Mikey. The worship included a specially written verse for "Be Still for the Spirit of the Lord"; recognising God's heart for unity amongst his people.

Dan then introduced OneBody Southampton, explaining the vision and history. His key message was that if our heart is to reach this City then each of us needs each other to achieve that: "I need you and we need us":

The morning session then moved into some quick fire updates on the activities that OneBody Southampton had been working on so far, including the Prayer Walking App (Duncan), Communication, Website & Mapping (Andrew), The Leaders Collective (Nathan), plans for "Christians in spheres" events (Dan), the Turn The Battle prayer initiative (Christine) and the new OneBody video release - on the home page (James).

Next was an opportunity for the leaders attending to give feedback on what they saw as most helpful amongst these initial activities before we then split into geographical groupings to consider how we could work better together in our local areas.

After a great networking lunch, kindly organised by Alice and a team of helpers from St James, we were then treated to an inspiring talk by the Anglican Bishop of Southampton, Rhiannon King. Bishop Rhiannon talked about her previous experience in Ipswich of working across the 88 churches in the city and offered great encouragement to the leaders in Southampton of the fruit that they had seen from that work. Bishop Rhiannon stressed that it was her great desire to see this initiative thrive across all denominations in the city and made the offer to hear from any of those there how she could contribute further to that. (Handout)

The day finished off with an opportunity to pray together for the city and the future of OneBody Southampton. Together we prayed a Jubilee Declaration for Southampton: A Jubilee Declaration for Southampton.pdf

Recordings of the afternoon session will be available soon...

OneBody Launch event - 19th November 2025