What and why?

Prayer – We believe that there is an urgent call for us, the church in Taunton and across Somerset, to seek God wholeheartedly and to give ourselves to prayer. Just as every great move of God has always been birthed and sustained from a foundation of persistent prayer, prayer is the foundation of our relationship with God and the well from which all our church activity and mission flows.
(Col 4:2, Lk 11:1-13, 18:1-14, 2 Ch 7:14, 1 Thess 5:17)

• Primary vision – to know and love God (Mt 22:37)

• To establish regular, united prayer gatherings for the church in Taunton (Acts 2:42)

• To encourage, equip and support the church particularly in corporate prayer but also in personal prayer

• To create a dedicated space for people to pray – an environment and inter-church community that encourages prayer (Acts 3:1)

How to find us...

Our main building for Sunday nights, Friday nights and events is the main sanctuary at North St Church, Taunton. TA1 1LW. (What3Words: ///dots.clear.tapes)

PARKING: There is very limited parking at the church so we try to reserve these for musicians with equipment to carry and those with limited mobility. Please park in Canon St Car Park (W3W: ///hails.below.full) Wood St Car Park or after 6pm there are often spaces on Middle St which is an easy 1 min walk down the alley from behind the church.

PRAYER ROOM: For our smaller midweek meetings we use our prayer room which opened last year. This is in the Chamberlains room accessed down the alley at the side of North St Church. The door is just before the gate on your left. (W3W: ///handle.held.busy)

Our story

Oakwood / Riverside / Greenway

Pursuit started in 2017 at Oakwood church as a fortnightly evening of worship and prayer. It soon became weekly and ran for several years before moving to Riverside Church. During lockdown in 2020 we moved to Greenway Chapel and had some incredible times of encountering God’s presence, and seeing the Spirit move.

A taste of lockdown and beyond

We had run two 24 hour days of prayer and in January 2020 opened a 24/7 prayer room and started 40 days of prayer and fasting. Lockdown arrived halfway through so we moved online. We hosted virtual worship times, held a 24/7 day of prayer online along with teaching, interviews and prayer nights while partnering with Awaken

2021 The Bridge & St George's

In Sept 2021 we moved to The Bridge in the town centre for 6 months, we started Gospel Nights, and started a lunchtime session at St George’s Church. We started mid week prayer sessions

2022 @North St Church

A new partnership with North St Church where we currently meet in the main Sanctuary every Sunday night. We are incredibly grateful to be partnering with the church here and for their generosity in hosting us over the last few years. We started WWW sessions, mid week meetings and in 2025 opened our new prayer room in Chamberlains

”… for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”

Isaiah 56:7, Matt 21.:13, Luke 19:46