UK: Shine Your Light

4 December 2025

This year, CMS is endorsing Shine Your Light, an outreach movement aiming to bring the message of hope and joy to communities across the UK.

Please pray for the movement to touch hearts across the nation and stir curiosity, especially among people who may have never considered that the Christmas story is more than just a fictional story.

Pray for God to work powerfully through an online carol service due to reach 56,000 prisoners on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Andy Roberts, CEO of CMS, says, “Singing carols fills so many with hope, so let’s move outside our comfort zones and take that hope out onto the streets for all to hear.” (Read more from Andy and go to shineyourlight.org.uk to register as an individual, a church or ministry organisation.

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