Pray for Disability Awareness Sunday

Pray for Disability Awareness Sunday

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Can you join us in prayer?

We invite you to join us to pray for disability inclusion and all the churches who registered to take part in Disability Awareness Sunday.

Many churches in the UK and around the world hold services and events to celebrate disabled people in church and Christian life: either on Disability Awareness Sunday itself, 27th September 2026, or on a different day.

We want to cover these churches and their Disability Awareness events in prayer and we’d love you to pray with us.

The prayer continues, following on from a 24-hour prayer chain which took place in 2025 from 12 noon (UK time) on 27th Sept till 12 noon on 28th Sept '25. Our Together at Home group produced a main DAS Prayer Guide with ideas for prayer, as well as some shorter and longer prayer guidance (see below).

Prayer is still much needed! Only God can transform our churches to be more fully inclusive of disabled people.

How do I join in?

We asked people to sign up for a slot to pray, so that we could try to fill any gaps. Now, after the official Sunday, you can pray any time! But it's still really important.

The original event was set up through the organisation '24/7 prayer', who run the Global Week of prayer each September. We just used the same sign up sheet to pray for Disability Awareness Sunday.

Anyone can pray any time, anywhere!

A screen shot of a webpage showing time slots for 24/7 prayer.

Resources and prayer prompts

We provided short prayer prompts (see bullet points below) as well as longer prayer resources:

1. A main DAS Prayer Guide produced by our Together at Home fellowship group (find out more about Together at Home here)
2. A longer prayer exercise in Lectio365-style, also produced by the Together at Home fellowship.

Some short prompts are in the bullet points below. The prompts and resources should have been sent by email to everyone who signed up to pray. But you can access them at the links above.

You do not have to use the prompts or resources – they are just a guide.

  • Pray for churches/people taking part in Disability Awareness Sunday, that God will bless and encourage them to celebrate and fully include disabled people.
  • Pray for the Biblical message to be shared that God's people, the Church, are ‘One Body, Many Parts’ (1 Corinthians 12), which is the theme for Disability Awareness Sunday 2026.
  • Pray for Christians to reach out and include disabled people on Disability Awareness Sunday, and to actively work towards disability inclusion as an essential ministry.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

 

What is Disability Awareness Sunday?

Disability Awareness Sunday is a day to celebrate and ensure disabled people are fully included in church and Christian life. This year it is on Sunday 27th September 2026.

Every year, our charity Through the Roof suggests a theme for Disability Awareness Sunday and produces a free resource for churches and ministries. You can access this year’s free resource at: https://throughtheroof.org/forchurches/disability-awareness-sunday/

Why pray for Disability Awareness Sunday?

Disability inclusion is not an ‘add-on’ to the Gospel, it IS part of the Gospel.

Jesus called disabled people and asks others to do the same in Luke 14’s parable of the Great Banquet, where the Bible says:
“Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the town. Bring in those who are poor. Also bring those who can’t see or walk.” (NIrV)

All people, including disabled people, are made in God’s image, and are part of God’s plan. A church without disabled people is an incomplete church. So praying for Disability Awareness Sunday is a first step to more and more churches fully including disabled people.

What are we praying for?

For churches and communities who take part in Disability Awareness Sunday: a day to celebrate and ensure disabled people are fully included in church and Christian life. This year it is officially on Sunday 27th September 2026, but any (Sun)day can be Disability Awareness Sunday!

  • We pray for churches and people taking part in Disability Awareness Sunday, that God will bless and encourage congregations to celebrate and fully include disabled people.
  • We also pray for the Biblical message to be shared that all people are needed in the body of Christ: the Church. Disability Awareness Sunday's 2026 theme is 'One Body, Many Parts'.
  • The most important thing about Disability Awareness Sunday is that Christians reach out and include disabled people. And that churches continue to actively work towards disability inclusion – e.g. by nominating a Roofbreaker or disability champion in their church.

There are longer prayer resources at the links below with more ideas and prompts on how you could spend your DAS prayer time:

1. A main DAS Prayer Guide produced by our Together at Home fellowship group
2. A longer prayer exercise in Lectio365-style, also produced by the Together at Home fellowship.

You do not have to use the prompts or resources – they are just a guide.

When are we praying?

This year, the plan is to invite people to pray any time from the evening of Friday 25th September 2026 until the evening of Sunday 27th September, which is Disability Awareness Sunday.
This is so that we are praying before, during and after many Disability Awareness Sunday services and events. But you can pray any time!

Do I have to pray for a whole hour?

No, even on the prayer signup sheet, you could sign up for the same one-hour slot as someone else, if you agree to do 30 mins each.

We just encouraged people to choose a slot not yet filled, so we cover the whole period, if possible. And it is fine to sign up for more than one slot, if you can!

The hope was to have every slot filled, so we cover the event in prayer for the whole weekend!

How do I scroll up and down in the prayer signup sheet?

The DAS prayer sign up sheet for 2026 is not yet ready, but if we use the same 24/7 prayer sign up sheet, here are the instructions:

You use your mouse (or swipe with your finger) to scroll down the prayer sign up sheet. There is no scroll bar at the side, but you can move down the sheet by clicking and dragging with your mouse (or with your finger on a phone/tablet).

How do I select a time slot?

Just click the box between the times you want to pray – by using your mouse or tapping with your finger on a phone/tablet.

Do I have to put my name publicly on the list?

No, you can sign up anonymously. Just click ‘Book anonymously’ in the box when you register.

You will be asked to give an email address so we can send you information, but that is kept private and won’t be shared by the organisers. You do not have to create an account, as you can ‘Book as guest’.

A pop-up box on a webpage to sign up for a prayer slot, askign for name, email, and if you want to book as a guest.

Is there a virtual prayer room on Zoom/video chat?

No, we have decided to invite people to pray independently, without the need to login to a video chat or Zoom room. However, individuals are welcome to set up their own virtual or in-person prayer rooms, if they want to pray together.

I have a different question about the DAS day of prayer – who do I ask?

The easiest way to ask a question is to email annette@throughtheroof.org

What is the Together at Home fellowship group, and can I join?

We would love new members of our online Together at Home Fellowship group, which is a virtual home group for Christians who meet on Thursday afternoons every week, 2-3pm UK time, to share community and pray or read the Bible together. Many of the group have lived experience of disability, but it is open to all.

Please visit our Together and Home webpage for more details and email together@throughtheroof.org to request the Zoom link for future meetings. 

How do I find out more about Through the Roof and church disability inclusion?

Please do fill in this short form to Get Updates from us at Through the Roof, the Christian disability inclusion charity.

Let us know on the form if you'd like information from Through the Roof about: