Last Updated: 2nd 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 (at www.achurchnearyou.com/church/7825/page/77358/view).

Church family news:

- Please pray for Barbara. She suffered a heart attack while staying with her son and is in hospital in Worcester, where she has received treatment for the underlying cause. There is a slight delay in her discharge, due to a damaged vein but she is in good spirits.

- Please pray for Alison, recovering from her surgery on Thursday, which went well.

- Ann is continuing to progress; please pray for her complete recovery.

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

- Please pray for all who are feeling 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 will attend our service of memories this weekend, and all who are living with grief

- those who live with life-limiting or life-restricting conditions, and those who care for them

- social services personnel, doing their best with stretched resources to meet ever increasing need

Pray for our outreach, our service and our churches

This week we ask you to include in your prayers:

- our vacancy team as it meets this week to discuss service cover and other vacancy matters

- our café team as it struggles to cover Wednesday afternoons; pray that more will volunteer

- our various teams working on the profile and recruitment plans and processes

- our continuing outreach and ministry, despite all the necessary admin going on as well

Pray for our mission partners

In our cycle of prayers for our mission partners, this week we ask you again to remember the work of Stephen and Catherine McGoldrick. Catherine and Stephen are working for church growth in Burundi and Central Africa. More information about all of our mission partners can be found on our website.

Please pray for:

- the 45 people attending the gathering to receive blessings from the retreat and the training

- all the speakers to clearly hear and share God’s message

- good communication between people from different countries

- Stephen not to have a flare up of his PMR (Polymyalgia rheumatica)

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]).