How?

Here’s how it works: you draw up a list of forty names and write them on slips of paper.  You can do this as an individual, as a couple or as a family. 

The names should include a mixture of people in your world: family members, relatives, neighbours, friends, teachers, colleagues, and random strangers (e.g. somebody on the bus or train, or in a shop, or on the way to school, or who serves you coffee every day).  It is fine to put in people whose names you don’t know – or to just write “a random stranger” – God knows their names.  The names are put into a special container.

Every day (except Sundays, as these aren’t counted as part of Lent) you draw a name from the container – you can pray together as you do this.  The name that is drawn becomes a focus for that day and you then choose how to love that person and see what God can do through you.