Did/is anyone doing this? This year the lead country was Nigeria. We had our service yesterday evening. As requested, our prayer table had African cloths, green-and-white colours for Nigeria, wooden bowls, rice and olive oil for women struggling with food poverty, a black cloth symbolising mourning and widowhood, and a schoolbag representing the story of a woman constantly afraid when her daughter goes to school that she could be abducted by Boko Haram like a neighbour's daughter.
Flowers, candles, the Bible, and rocks (which I had to gather last minute) standing for the burden of poverty.
Text for the evening, 'Come to me you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest' Matthew 11 28
The one departure we made was substituting 'Give me joy in my heart' for the low-key and unfamiliar closing hymn suggested.