Advent Prayer Guide addresses slavery, past and present
23 November 2006
In anticipation of the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in 2007, the Advent Prayer Guide 2006 acknowledges the role that the Church played in the maintenance, as well as the abolition, of the slave trade. The prayer points address modern day slavery, including bonded labour and the exploitation of women and children.
Over 25,000 copies of the Advent Prayer Guide 2006 have already been sold. The guide is in its sixth year of production and gives an opportunity to engage daily in prayer on an issue of importance; this year the theme is slavery.
This year’s guide is written by the Reverend Arlington Trotman, Director of AW Trotman Associates and former CEO of the Racial Justice Commission, Churches Together in Britain & Ireland.
Reverend Trotman said: “The Advent Prayer Guide is a timely reminder that evangelicals have an important stake, through earnest prayer and focussed action, in the bicentenary of the abolition of the Slave Trade Act.
The prayer guide serves as a tool of inspiration for challenging us, assuring the ends of modern forms of slavery and its legacies such as trafficking in human beings, unlawful racial discrimination, negative racial stereotypes and poverty.”
The guide supplies daily bible readings, reflections and prayer points from the start of Advent on 27 November to its end on 24 December and can be ordered through the Evangelical Alliance.
See details on how to order
Media Contact:
Bill Shaw
Evangelical Alliance
020 7207 2115
b.shaw@eauk.org
Notes to editors:
The Advent Prayer Guide has been produced by the Evangelical Alliance in association with:
African and Caribbean Evangelical Alliance www.acea-uk.org
Stop the Traffik www.stopthetraffik.org
Set All Free www.setallfree.net
The Evangelical Alliance UK, formed in 1846, is an umbrella group representing over one million evangelical Christians in the UK and is made up of member churches, organisations and individuals. As part of a movement ‘uniting to change society’, the Alliance promotes unity and truth, acts as an evangelical voice to the state, society and the wider Church, and provides resources to help members and other evangelicals live out their faith in their communities.
