"I support this initiative with all my heart. 'Bringing Home the Prodigals' has many aspects: a releasing from false guilt, a challenge to the local church to be communities of love, and an examination of what really matters to God. But above all this, is a nationwide call to prayer, that God, in his mercy, will touch the lives of our prodigals wherever they are - and bring them home."

David Coffey
Moderator of The Free Church Movement

A prayer for our prodigals

Lord, only you know where our prodigals are - not just the physical place but in their hearts, their minds, their spirits. None of us can hide from you, and who is lost that you cannot find?

We pray for them. Lord, bring them home - not just to us, not even first to us, but to you. Forgive us if as parents, friends, or churches we have made it easier for them to leave or harder to come back.

Wherever they are and whatever they are doing, touch their lives. And when they come home give us the spirit of the father and not the elder brother.

And, Lord, there are some of us who to the outside world seem never to have left the father's house, but we ourselves know how far we have wandered. Bring us back also.

And when they come back, those who have gone far away and those who have wandered near, then teach us all that sometimes in your kingdom it's not another meeting we need - but a party.