15th January, 2016
A former football club chaplain in the UK has launched a campaign to build a wall that will be a national landmark representing one million prayers being answered.
Christian Today reports that "The Wall" is the ambitious dream of Richard Gamble, the former chaplain for Leicester City football club.
The wall would be built using one million bricks, each bought by an individual, and located alongside a motorway in Leicestershire.
Mr Gamble, CEO of Sports Chaplaincy UK, says he is going to ask Christians from across the country to buy a brick for £10 and tell what prayer God has answered for them.
The answered prayer will be inscribed on the brick.
For every brick, the project will buy a brick in social housing, ensuring it will have a positive social impact.
Mr Gamble hopes that this wall, inspired by Nehemiah 1:3, will "be an iconic structure that, as a piece of art, provokes a discussion about prayer and shows the positive impact of the Church."
He plans a design competition with the Royal Institute of British Architecture to find the right design.
– STAN HUNT
