Morecambe Community Church

15/10/2026

Let's pray a lament

Michael Kohl led our pause today and wrote this heartfelt poem for us. Yes. We can all relate.

Broken prayer
Breaking, everything is breaking.
Breaking in a broken world.
Broken in a breaking world.
Lord have mercy.
Breaking, everything is breaking.

Dishwashers, electrics, roofs, bikes and cars.
Sleep, emotions, fingernails, wounds and scars

Printers, laptops, passwords and phones
Reliability, resolve, marriages and bones

Breaking, everything is breaking.
Breaking in a broken world.
Broken in a breaking world.
Lord have mercy.
Breaking, everything is breaking.

Heating, windows and community premises
Confidence, confidentiality and promises

Internet connections and morning pause streams
Hopes, hearts, desires, wishes and dreams

Breaking, everything is breaking.
Breaking in a broken world.
Broken in a breaking world.
Lord have mercy.
Breaking, everything is breaking.

But somehow
Glass ceilings stay in place
Vicious cycles continue to spin
Ranks remain closed
Barriers hold firm
Silence is still in one piece

Breaking, everything is breaking.
Jesus
Breaking for a broken world.
Broken for a breaking world.
Lord have mercy.

Now is the time if you're broken, you will be made whole.
Time's up for the breakers and brokers, for the suppliers of straw for camels' backs, you will be in pieces.
Lord, have mercy.

27/09/2026

We loved creating our Morecambe beatitudes. ❤️

Beatitudes for Morecambe…

Now’s the time that the council stops calling a disabled toilet on the prom a ‘suitable home’
Time’s up for them to stay in a job

Now’s the time if you’re young and have lost hope
Time’s up for politicians always blaming each other

Now’s the time for the Eden project to open
Time’s up for those who say nothing good can happen here

Now’s the time for neighbours to walk into a meeting they know nothing about
Time’s up for people being excluded and feeling unwelcome

Now’s the time for Revival that’ involves Jesus turning over tables
Time’s up if you’re only concerned about the temple

Now’s the time truly affordable housing
Time’s up for posh people worrying about the view from their conservatory

Now’s the time for underpaid people doing impossible jobs
Time’s up for exploiting employers

Now’s the time for young people in care
Time’s up for companies exploiting them

Now’s the time for young people having real, hopeful jobs
Time’s up for job centres handing out sanctions and county lines offering no hope at all

Now’s the time for the RNLI
Time’s up for people who offer hostility not hospitality

Now’s the time for artist, poets and musicians
Time’s up for AI slop…..flipin heck

…..Thank you Morecambe! You really got into the prophetic imagination and we loved your contextual beatitudes.

23/09/2026

My prayers can feel a little stale at times, keeping it general and safe, spiritual and vague enough to not rock the boat. This book stretches, feeds and makes my prayers uncomfortable enough to live for Jesus and justice with renewed passion and guts. Michael x

20/09/2026

Who's ready for some blessings?

08/09/2026

Inside the prayer horse box today ♥️
It rained in but we still prayed, especially for our neighbourhood and the 6 homeless people we know are on the streets. It was cold and windy but at least we had a little shelter

08/09/2026

Praying our little socks off

02/09/2026

Oooh, not long to go and we cannot wait. Looking forward to having Dave and Sally Mann with us. Sharing stories, writing prayers and gathering as Jesus followers!

01/09/2026

A week today - Join us for prayer in the 24/7 prayer trailer.

We'll be hosting the Prayer Trailer on the Garden of Hope (West End Impact Community Garden) on Tuesday 8th of Sept 1 - 4 pm.
Part of a week of the 24-7 Global Week of Prayer, asking that the name of Jesus would be lifted high and His Kingdom would come.
Come join us to pray, be prayed for, sit and be.

27/08/2026

We'll be hosting the Prayer Trailer on the Garden of Hope (West End Impact Community Garden) on Tuesday 8th of Sept 1 - 4 pm.
Part of a week of the 24-7 Global Week of Prayer, asking that the name of Jesus would be lifted high and His Kingdom would come.
Come join us to pray, be prayed for, sit and be.

19/08/2026

Morecambe book launch on the 26th of September 6.30pm 😊😊