Last Updated: 11th May 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:

- Continue to pray for our baptism and confirmation candidates as the Holy Spirit continues to work in them.

- Please pray for Jade, who has two days this coming week of interviews for ordination training.

- Please pray for those who are grieving, especially the family and friends of Suzanne Dow.

- Those for whom we have been praying recently are still in need of our prayers. Please don’t forget them just because their names are no longer listed.

- Each week, there are people we know who are unwell but who prefer not to be named here. God knows who they are; please pray for them all.

Pray for our community

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

- those who witness the baptisms in the Rib on Saturday, perhaps with simple curiosity, perhaps with minds open to finding Jesus

- the members of Standon Sing, who plan to sing at the river, and for whom St Mary’s is their ‘home’

- Little Munden School choir as it visits St Edmunds College on Tuesday

- that we might reach the people in Sacombe who seem to be ambivalent about engaging with St Catherine’s

Pray for our outreach, our service and our churches

This week we ask you to include in your prayers:

- the recruitment process for our youth worker, that the person God has chosen will come forward

- our new PCCs and continuing church wardens, and that a CW for Little Munden will hear God’s call

- our Open Gardens events next month, and for all the preparations currently underway

Pray for our mission partners

This week we ask you to pray for all our mission partners. Please remember:

- Catherine and Stephen McGoldrick, working for church growth in Burundi and Central Africa

- Andrew and Samara Ellis, part of a church leadership team in Harare, Zimbabwe

- David and Marlene Fry, working with media in Germany reaching out to unreached peoples

- John and Gillian Robinson, working with the poorest in Bangkok, Thailand

- Kisiizi Hospital in Uganda, working for health and Christian outreach

- The Holy Land Institute for the Deaf in Jordan, working with deaf children throughout the country

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.