24/7 Alive

For three weeks over June, the Durham CU are operating a 24/7 prayer room - a space for Christian students to pray at any time, day or night - under the banner of 24/7 Alive. 


As a Christian, I am well aware of the constant need to depend on God in prayer - but I am certainly also well aware of how easy it is to neglect this privilege. Our Father holds the world in the palm of His hand - after all, creation is his handiwork. Our Lord and Saviour sustains all we see by His powerful word. Is any more motivation and incentive to pray needed?


The goal of this CU initiative isn't to pride ourselves in the amount we pray, nor is it about trying to "twist God's arm" into dispensing the items on our prayer shopping list. The goal is to pray. The goal is to pray as a community of Christians seeking to reach Durham University with the good news of Jesus. There is nothing intrinsically deeper or richer or better about praying at 3am then 3pm, and there is nothing spiritually special about a particular space we set up to be our prayer room - but in giving over a portion of resources into operating 24/7 Alive we remind ourselves of our priority and our privilege to be continually dependent on God in prayer. 


In order to promote this venture, a friend and I created a promotional video to help students in Durham CU catch the vision for 24/7 prayer this term. 


We borrowed (read: stole) the concept from a brilliant video produced by a few St. Andrews students. Though the videos are similar, we began our project with prior permission from them!


The final result is embedded below, but I've also pasted a few shots that didn't make the final cut, as well as some high quality versions of a couple that did. 

Firstly, some high res versions of a few of the shots:

This is one of my favourite views in Durham -
all the more so this time of year!

We were very lucky and managed to get onto
a roof in the centre of Durham

A scaffold free shot of the Cathedral! 

And then some that didn't make the cut: 

I do like this shot - I'll be using an edited version elsewhere I think

And then some just for fun!

Creativity fuel - quality!

Creative Director and Editor: Danni
(I'll be in trouble for posting this!)