APPROXIMATELY 4,000 members of more than 105 churches across the island are expected to gather at Kendal Camp and Conference Centre, Manchester on Friday in a 10-hour prayer session for Jamaica.

The National Healing The Land All-Night All-Parish Prayer and Strategic Intercessory Conference is scheduled to begin at 8:00 pm.

The event is being organised by Prayer 2000, an inter-denominational partnership prayer ministry, which says it was “created and mandated by the Lord to sufficiently raise the awareness of and the need for a high level of prayer throughout the society in order to facilitate the presence-based transformation and revival of our nation”.

Praise and worship teams from Montego Bay, Kingston and Manchester, led by Jermaine Gordon, executive leader of Prayer 2000, are scheduled to help lead the all-night prayer and strategic intercession.

In addition, the island’s leading gospel performers — Kevin Downswell, Carlene Davis and JCDC Gospel winner, Keneisha ‘J Sparks’ Smith — are expected to be there, a news release from the organisers said.

“We shall cater for all persons in attendance and particularly for the diabetics and children, but there will be no official refreshment break throughout the night. Each person will quietly slip out to refresh himself or herself as necessary,” the release quotes Prayer 2000 President Rev Dr Naila Ricketts.

The event, the organisers said, will be the culmination of a month-long islandwide series of prayer and strategic intercessory sessions which began on January 4.

The prayer conference is being held under the theme ‘Humility: The Transforming Grace; The Attraction of God’.

According to the news release, Rev Dr Ricketts said God revealed to members of Prayer 2000 that the pillar of the economy and business should be targeted in this year’s conference and that “a corporate cry should be made to Him for the restoration of His wealth to Jamaica”.

“So, the focus of our prayers will be the agricultural sector and grain sufficiency, in particular, for Jamaica,” the release quotes Rev Dr Ricketts.

“In the 2006/2007 conference, we were led to pray strategically as we journeyed in prayer around the island. Since then, we have seen numerous miracles take place in the lives of many Jamaicans and our nation,” Rev Dr Ricketts said.

“In fact, over the past 14 years since the annual National Healing the Land prayer conference was launched, God has shown Himself in a very special way to people throughout the parishes and we know that He will be doing great things in the lives of those who seek Him in 2015,” Rev Dr Ricketts added.

The event organisers said that Governor General Sir Patrick Allen has expressed his desire to attend, while invitations have been extended to custodes, mayors, representatives of the agricultural sector, including Agriculture Minister Derrick Kellier and president of the Jamaica Agricultural Society Senator Norman Grant; as well as the president and CEO of the Jamaica Broilers Group, Christopher Levy and other members of the Group.

Prayer 2000 was started in 1999 with eight executive leaders and today the movement comprises approximately 213 member-leaders. The group says it has given prayer support to a number of events, such as Jamaica CAUSE, Jamaica Coalition for a Healthy Society, the Best Dressed Fun in the Son, as well as the Market Place, various government fora and church ministries.

Jamaicans praying at a church on New Year’s Eve, 2014. About 4,000 members of more than 105 churches across the island are expected to gather at Kendal Camp and Conference Centre, Manchester on Friday in a 10-hour prayer session for Jamaica.