IT was standing room only in the Cathedral as over 1,000 Christians came together to celebrate Pentecost and pray together.

Churches from all of the different Christian denominations throughout the city and beyond cancelled their usual evening services to join together for the occasion, which featured best-selling author and founder of the 24-7 prayer movement, Pete Greig.

The event marked Pentecost, a Christian festival which celebrates when the Holy Spirit descended on Jesus’s followers and is often considered the birthday of the Christian church and the start of the Church’s mission in the world.

The service, on Sunday, featured the Salvation Army band as well as a worship band from All Saints’ Church.

Leaders from Worcester’s Free Churches, Baptists, Roman Catholics and Anglican churches led prayers and reflections.

In his sermon, Pete Greig said: “It is great to gather in the Cathedral where there’s been prayer for 1000 years or more.

"It’s an amazing place to worship Jesus. When we come to God in prayer, he’s not concerned that we get the right words in the right order.

"He looks at our faces and reads our hearts; stepping into our midst and understanding all our fears and disappointments.”

All those attending the service were given two pieces of a big puzzle made up of the towns and villages of Worcestershire.

They pledged to take their puzzle pieces home to pray for people in their communities.

The service was part of Thy Kingdom Come, which began as a simple invitation to prayer from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York in 2016, but has since blossomed into a global movement.