Last Updated: 16th November 2025

Here we suggest focus areas for prayer, but please continue to pray for the work of our churches and missionary partners around the world (details on our website).

Church family news:

- Please continue to pray for those who have been listed here in recent weeks.

- Please pray for all who are in pain, unwell or just a bit under the weather.

- Please pray for those who grieve, particularly the families of Jean Aldridge and Walter King.

Pray for our community

In our cycle of prayers, this weekend we ask you to include in your prayers:

- those who have chosen a path in life that harms others, that they will find a new way to live

- those who live with any kind of abuse, that they will find the help and support they need

- those who live with poverty that makes impossible much that most people take for granted

Pray for our outreach, our service and our churches

This week we ask you to include in your prayers:

- pray for our new youth work team, and for the children, who are hungry to hear the gospel

- pray for our parish reps as they prepare to play an important part in the recruitment process

- pray for our Patrons, and for all involved in the process of finding and appointing our new Rector

- pray for that person, as God prepares him or her to serve here

Pray for our mission partners

In our cycle of prayers for our mission partners, this week we ask you to pray for Operation Christmas Child.

More information about all of our mission partners can be found on our website.

Just over 100 shoeboxes will be collected this Sunday afternoon, ready to head to the children who will receive them as a Christmas gift.

Please pray for:

- the volunteers who will check them at the warehouses before packaging them into crates

- the lorry, boat and plane personnel who will transport them to countries such as Liberia, Malawi and Ukraine

- the local volunteers who will distribute them to those who most need them

- the children themselves, that they would know this Christmas that someone cares enough to pack a present for them

If you are aware of anyone who would like our prayers, or who would like the church family to share in some news, good or bad, please let Caroline know ([email protected]).