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Our next Standing Strong Live will be held on Ascension Thursday (13 May) and will focus on prayer for secret believers all over the world.
We will be spending time hearing from the Thy Kingdom Come movement, a global prayer movement that invites Christians around the world to pray for more people to come to know Jesus. You’ll also hear Mojtaba’s story of life as a secret believer in the Middle East, and about his time imprisoned for his faith.
We'd love for you to join us on Thursday 13 May at 8:15pm!
Following on from the success of last year, Standing Strong 2021 will be online again this year, taking place on Saturday 25 September. This year, we will be specifically encouraging supporters to gather together to watch, worship and pray with us in groups – as families, friends, in churches and in small groups. This is a freedom that more than 340 million Christians around the world don’t have. We have all felt the challenge of the limitation of our freedoms in lockdown, and we want to encourage you to remember, in our post-lockdown freedom, the reality for our family facing persecution, and to stand in solidarity with them in heart and mind.
We are also excited to share that, for the first time, we will also be hosting a youth event, on Friday 24 September, which will inspire young people and youth leaders to engage with their persecuted church family in a fresh way. More details to follow soon.
After the challenges of the pandemic, we can't wait for the Standing Strong Live physical gatherings to resume, and we are excited to announce that we have started our plans for 2022. We have secured the Resorts World Arena, NEC, Birmingham on 24 September 2022 and will also be working with local churches across England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland to host a series of other events. We will share further dates and venue details in due course.
All those who booked tickets for 2021 will be contacted on Monday 22 March with further information. If you have purchased tickets for Birmingham, all tickets, whether they are individual, group, children, youth or family tickets, will be transferred to the corresponding event on 24 September 2022. There are no extra fees to pay. Refunds are also available on all tickets.
For all Scotland, Wales and Ireland events, your tickets will be fully refunded to you. For further information please see the FAQs at the bottom of this page.
At Standing Strong Online 2020, we heard inspiring stories of courageous faith from Syria, Nigeria and China. Standing Strong Online is an amazing opportunity to stand with the persecuted church in prayer, and hear first-hand how God is working. Whether you want to watch again, or couldn’t make the event, you can catch up here with all the testimonies, worship and prayer.
Watch Standing Strong 2020 Online On Demand
You’re invited to meet those who dare to follow Jesus no matter the cost.
Standing Strong is a celebration of all that God is doing in and through His church around the world, thanks to your prayers and support. This is a unique opportunity to hear speakers who are courageously following Jesus, despite the dark and dangerous reality of persecution they face.
At Standing Strong, join with hundreds of others in worship and prayer and find out how you can support your persecuted family. Learn more about the dangers, risks and joys that being faithful to Jesus brings and the work Open Doors is doing to support those whose faith costs them the most.
An all-day children’s programme for ages 5-11 and optional youth sessions for ages 12-15 are available at Birmingham only.
Location: Resorts World Arena, NEC Birmingham
Date: Saturday 24 September 2022
Time: 10.30am – 4.30pm
Further dates and venues to be announced
We have all felt the challenge of the limitation of our freedoms in lockdown, and we want to encourage you to remember, in our post-lockdown freedom, the reality is not the same for our family facing persecution. Due to the uncertainty still facing our persecuted family around the world, we have decided to take Standing Strong online again this year.
Following on from the success of last year, Standing Strong 2021 will be online again this year, taking place on Saturday 25 September 2021! We were really encouraged by all the feedback we received last year, and have taken this on board, using it to shape this year’s event to further enrich our fellowship with one another and with our family facing persecution.
This year, we will be specifically encouraging supporters to gather together to watch, worship and pray with us in groups – as families, friends, in churches and in small groups.
We are also excited to share that, for the first time, we will also be hosting a youth event, which will inspire young people and youth leaders to engage with their persecuted church family in a fresh way. More information on this will follow soon.
After the challenges of the pandemic, we can't wait for the Standing Strong Live physical gatherings to resume and we are excited to announce that we have started our plans for 2022. We have secured the Resorts World Arena, NEC, Birmingham on 24 September 2022 from 10.30am-4.30pm, and will also be working with local churches across England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland to host a series of other events. We will share further dates and venue details in due course.
Birmingham - All tickets, whether they are individual, group, children, youth or family tickets, will be transferred to the corresponding event on 24 September 2022. There are no extra fees to pay. Refunds are also available on all tickets.
For all Scotland, Wales and Ireland events, your tickets will be fully refunded to you.
Yes, if you purchased a lunch ticket, this will also be transferred. Or, if you have requested a refund, it will be refunded instead.
For all Scotland, Wales and Ireland events, refunds will be issued automatically to you. Please allow 30 days for refunds to be processed.
For the England event, which was due to take place at Arena Birmingham, if you booked online then you will need to request a refund via your Ticket Factory account. You can contact Ticket Factory and request a refund via the form saved here. Ticket Factory will also contact you directly via email.
If you booked for the Arena Birmingham event over the phone with our Inspire team, then your ticket provider is Eventbrite. Details on how to request a refund via your Eventbrite account can be found here.
If you have any difficulties with this, or if you have any further questions, please email us at inspire@opendoorsuk.org or call us on 01993 460015.
You can request a refund for those tickets that are affected rather than your whole order. Please see refund instructions on how to do that.
No – unfortunately administrative complications mean that donating your ticket is not possible.
Though we hope to offer the same speakers, we can’t at present confirm that.
If you would like more information about the impact of Covid-19 on the work of Open Doors, please visit the Covid-19 page.
-Your support helps persecuted Christians continue to courageously follow Jesus.
Together, we can reach those where persecution hits hardest.
