Posted By: Noel Richards
Posted On: 08:27:20 17th May 2008Watching the FA Cup Final today from Wembley Stadium. Rooting for Cardiff City, because that is my home town. When the crowd sing 'Abide with me' before the game, that is always special. Reminds me of the time when we worshipped at that stadium (the old one) in 1997. Were any of you there? Looking forward to Penetcost 2010, when the team at the Global Day of Prayer, London, plan on filling that stadium with up to 90,000 people, to pray and worship. As someone once said - 'the sporting colosseums of this world are not just for football and baseball, but for the last big breath of God'. Bring it on!!If you'd like to have your say and post your own comments, please login using the menu on the left.

This is right. Our worship must be expressed in the horizontal as well as the vertical. This is my favourite quote. Not sure who said it: "Worship without mission is self-indulgent. Mission without worship is self-defeating...." Great to have our gatherings but we need to be constantly reaching out to those who have not heard the Good News. Posted by:  Noel Richards 16:19:51 23rd May 2008

I remember being a Wembley Stadium in 1997 very fondly. Firstly, I was there watching St Helens win the Rugby League Challenge Cup, then for Champion not long after. Having visited the new Wembley I worry that the atmosphere of the old ground is lost. It was the small hours of Sunday morning when I eventually got near home from Champion and I remember on the coach we drove past a young lady who was sitting by the road drunk and crying. The paradox of the experience I had at Wembley with her experience was striking - and one can only wonder how different her evening could have been had she been at the concert. These are the people we must seek to reach. Posted by:  Paul Henry 14:32:28 23rd May 2008

Keep in touch with what Global Day of Prayer London are doing. They are planning to hold a gathering at the Arsenal (Emirates) Stadium in 2009 and then Wembley in 2010. Both on Pentecost Sunday. Posted by:  Noel Richards 04:21:29 21st May 2008

I wish we had wembley champion of the world in the new stadium... The old is gone but behold the lord has designed a new staduim to fill and to use as a vehicle to save souls ! we haven't been to the new ! I went to the old champion of the world...it was amazing, it rained on that evening all around us in london but the wembley stadium stayed bone dry. Not a drop of rain , never had i seen that before ! What such power of God. -ste :o) Posted by:  a song 16:31:31 20th May 2008

John...thanks for writing. Yes a pity about Cardiff. But what a great game anyway. Thanks for all your help at Wembley. Regarding 2010, the website is www.gdoplondon.com You would need to write to them to see what help they need. Well, nice to meet a fellow welshman....... Posted by:  Noel Richards 18:08:19 19th May 2008

Yes, Champion of the World at Wembley Stadium was fantastic. Worship was awesome. I was there helping organise the collection, given my Spring Harvest experiences - Chief Steward, etc..... Now abide with me, well there's a tune. Only folk from the promised land can truly sing that one, can't they bach. Shame Cardiff didn't win, being a Newport boy, and ex RN/RM I was torn, between who to support, pompy being my old stamping ground. Pentecost 2010 sound great, where can I get details? Do they need any help? Posted by:  John _ Harvest30jh 17:53:43 19th May 2008