‘Come in and Pray’ with Jubilee House’s refreshed phone box

If you’ve ever visited Jubilee House in Southwell, you will have passed our bright red phone box as you drove or walked into the car park.

This phone box was little more than an unused historical curiosity for many years, but we’ve now given it a new lease of life as a space to pause and pray. Anyone can now walk into the phone box and use the freshly installed phone to hear one of ten prayers that have been recorded on a wide range of topics. The options include dialling 1 for the Lord’s Prayer, dialling 4 for a prayer of gratitude, and 7 for a prayer of healing.

While most have been recorded by members of our Jubilee House staff team, we do have one guest appearance from the local area. Revd Jon Morley, vicar of Holy Trinity in Southwell, wrote and recorded a special prayer for the town. He prays for those who live, work and visit this town, and asks for God to “protect whatever is good, pure, noble and true.”

While the prayer phone is the main feature of the revitalised phone box, it was important to us that the space also offers a point of connection for the future. A poster inside the box features a QR code that takes you to a web page containing details of local churches, Alpha courses and discipleship resources.

Even if you’re unlikely to be passing by the phone box yourself, we ask  you to pray with us that it will be a point of hope for those living in and passing through Southwell, and that it will lead those who pray inside it to warm and welcoming church families and future encounters with the Living Hope of Jesus Christ.

And if you do happen to be visiting Jubilee House and you have a spare minute, why not step inside, pause and pray? It only takes a few seconds to bring your attention back to God in the midst of whatever else is going on.