Women's World Day of Prayer is a global, ecumenical movement of informed prayer and prayerful action, organised and led by Christian women who call the faithful together on the first Friday in March each year to observe a common day of prayer and who, in many countries, have a continuing relationship in prayer and service.

The service is written by a different country each year and that country then becomes the focus of the world's prayers on the day itself, which begins as dawn breaks over the islands of Tonga in the Pacific and continues across each continent until the last services of this special day are held back in the Pacific, on the islands of Samoa, circling the world in prayer for 36 hours.

Day of Prayer - 7th March 2008 – Guyana

The Co-operative Republic of Guyana is a country of exceptional beauty, perched on the north-east corner of South America. It lies between Suriname to the east, Brazil to the south, Venezuela to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the north and is the only English speaking country in the continent. Culturally, Guyana is Caribbean and is part of the West Indies. The Amerindians are the original inhabitants.

The symbol of the Women's World Day of Prayer was designed by an Irish nun in 1982 and adapted as the international logo. The design comprises arrows converging from the four points of the compass, four figures kneeling in prayer, the Celtic cross and a circle representing the world and our unity through all our diversity.

Brother Roy