2024 - year of unbroken prayer

24-7 Prayer is hosting a Year of Unbroken Prayer. More than fifty prayer communities across North America have committed to pray non-stop for a week from January 1 to December 31 this year! Imagine, every moment of every day, someone within the 24-7 Prayer community in North America is praying!

Now … and now … and now! Amazing!

GOHOP is partnering with other prayer communities across Canada to be part of this important initiative. Our friends at the Quebec House of Prayer (Sherbrooke), Many Rooms Prayer Room (Winnipeg), Salvation Army Church - Bloor Central (Toronto) and McMaster University students are working together to pray without ceasing from November 25 to December 1!

GOHOP’s days are Friday, November 29 to Sunday, December 1.

  • We will be praying at Trinity Lutheran, 1907 King St E in Rosedale.

  • On Friday, November 29, from noon until 3 p.m., we will focus on praying about homelessness in partnership with Helping Hands, Open Homes and Indwell.

  • We will have 12 hours of worship from noon until midnight Saturday, November 30.

We are also supporting McMaster students in their 28 hours of Prayer for, by and with Students.

  • Students are praying in West Hamilton near the McMaster Campus. This will take place at St Cuthbert’s Presbyterian Church in Westdale. We are so grateful for their hospitality in hosting these hours of prayer!

  • Students will be praying from 8 p.m. on Monday, November 25 to 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, November 26.

  • This event will include a time of worship and creative prayer stations.

We will have a dedicated prayer space and at least one person there hosting the space at all times. There will be creative prayer stations set up to help focus your prayers if you wish to use them.

We have found that God consistently shows up in powerful and beautiful and surprising ways when we set aside our regular schedule of busyness to make lots of space for Him. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to be part of what God is doing in our city!


 

GOHOP Celebration - Oct 24, 2024 - Trinity Lutheran Church

GOHOP Celebration

We had such an amazing time celebrating God’s goodness to the GOHOP community at our gathering at Trinity Lutheran on October 24. We spent time thanking Andy, our director, for the countless ways he has enriched our community. We blessed and released him into a new season. We took the opportunity to look forward to what God is inviting GOHOP into in the days to come.

It was great to be in our new space. We are deeply blessed by the partnership and support of Indwell. We look forward to setting up our prayer space and office at 1907 King St E in Rosedale in the very near future!

 

The Greater Ontario House of Prayer (GOHOP) is a praying community, following the way of Jesus through shared spiritual rhythms.  As part of a larger, global prayer expression within 24-7 Prayer, we exist to serve and equip the Church and do our part to create, nurture and sustain a local, Hamilton expression of prayer.

As a house of prayer ‘for all nations’ we are called to practice and champion rhythms of personal and corporate prayer in a way that celebrates the diversity of prayer in the Global church, past and present. 

We are committed to a lifestyle and spiritual practices that will help us become formed into the likeness of Christ. 

We are committed to serving the Church through prayer, teaching, spiritual direction, resource-sharing, prayer courses & internships, and regular, annual prayer events.  



We are getting ready to move into our new prayer space. In the meantime, our gatherings continue in different locations!


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Find out how you can participate in Gohop with These programs:

Explore becoming a GOHOP Companion. Companions participate in the GOHOP Community and live by a Rule of Life. There is no financial cost, and a few hours per month of commitment, this is designed for anyone from moms, to students, to those working full time. This is for those who are already familiar with GOHOP. If you are not, we recommend first taking an Internship or Prayer Course.

Explore more about Companions.

The best onramp into the GOHOP Community is to take our Internship. This 3 month immersive experience is designed to take you deeper in your faith, exploring Spiritual Disciplines, and the Work of the Holy Spirit. You will grow in Community, and have the opportunity to serve and learn in the Prayer Room. Internships run in the Fall and Spring.

Learn more about the Form and Fire Internship


“Now is the Time to Pray” GOHOP promo trailer

The vision is Jesus. Dangerously. Obsessively. Undeniably Jesus...
— Pete Greig, 24-7 Vision Poem

Those who give themselves to prayer and worship and communion with the living God often find that their prayers have legs, legs that take them out of the prayer room and into their neighbourhoods, cities and nations.