Unity Events for Christian Churches in Southampton

Leaders Collective Lunch

Next one:

Wednesday 21st January 2026

All church and project leaders welcome, sign up by emailing James - contact@onebodysouthampton.com

Turn the Battle

Together, OneBody supports this initiative and we are working to bring together people and churches from across the city to pray. We’re not alone in supporting this, and you can find out more from the Turn the Battle website.

"Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer lies in the One who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference." — Max Lucado

At this stage, we are gathering those who would like to opt into something together. Leaders of churches opting in are invited to a meeting on 8th December 2025 to find out more and co-ordinate our plans. If you would like to join us, please register your interest with Christine: christine@onebodysouthampton.com

Prayer gatherings

Good Friday Gathering

Over the past few years, we have supported the Good Friday Gathering in the Guildhall Square, run by Paul Woodman and Steve Lee.

Watch this space for news on the plans for this coming year

SoHoP Wednesday night prayer meetings for the city - 19:30-21:00 (venues tba)

26th November 2025
10th December 2025
14th January 2026
28th January 2026

‘Turn the Battle’ is a national prayer and fasting initiative bringing churches together to pray for our nation together, with 3 days of prayer and fasting, 21-23 January 2026.

We recently met with Steve Uppal, who came to Southampton to share his experience of the call of God to our nation to come together to pray as one, asking God to ‘turn back the battle at the gate’, Isaiah 28:6. As we pray and express our need for God, we believe that God both hears and acts.

Upcoming events

OneBody Launch event - 19th November 2025

The OneBody Southampton launch event gathered together Christian leaders from across Southampton, representing 44 churches in the city and 15 charities and projects working in Southampton, 98 people in total during the day. It was hosted by St James in the Park in Shirley and included talks about the vision and activities of OneBody Southampton along with opportunities for discussion and networking between the leaders attending.

Temi opened the day in prayer before we went into a time of worship led by Nathan and Mikey. The worship included a specially written verse for "Be Still for the Spirit of the Lord"; recognising God's heart for unity amongst his people.

Dan then introduced OneBody Southampton, explaining the vision and history. His key message was that if our heart is to reach this City then each of us needs each other to achieve that: "I need you and we need us":

Previous events

The morning session then moved into some quick fire updates on the activities that OneBody Southampton had been working on so far, including the Prayer Walking App (Duncan), Communication, Website & Mapping (Andrew), The Leaders Collective (Nathan), plans for "Christians in spheres" events (Dan), the Turn The Battle prayer initiative (Christine) and the new OneBody video release - on the home page (James).

Next was an opportunity for the leaders attending to give feedback on what they saw as most helpful amongst these initial activities before we then split into geographical groupings to consider how we could work better together in our local areas.

After a great networking lunch, kindly organised by Alice and a team of helpers from St James, we were then treated to an inspiring talk by the Anglican Bishop of Southampton, Rhiannon King. Bishop Rhiannon talked about her previous experience in Ipswich of working across the 88 churches in the city and offered great encouragement to the leaders in Southampton of the fruit that they had seen from that work. Bishop Rhiannon stressed that it was her great desire to see this initiative thrive across all denominations in the city and made the offer to hear from any of those there how she could contribute further to that. (Handout)

The day finished off with an opportunity to pray together for the city and the future of OneBody Southampton. Together we prayed a Jubilee Declaration for Southampton: A Jubilee Declaration for Southampton.pdf

Recordings of the afternoon session will be available soon...