Last Updated: 12th October 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:

- Several of our church family members have been listed in this sheet in recent weeks. Please continue to pray for them.

- There are several bugs and viruses doing the rounds at the moment, including the latest Covid variant. Please pray for all who are feeling unwell or just a bit under the weather.

- Pray for all who are in pain in any way.

- Please pray for those who grieve, particularly remembering the family of Jean Aldridge

Pray for our community

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

- all who have attended or will attend the various concerts and events in our churches, that they will find a warm welcome from us and an opening to explore who Jesus is

- all who turn to us in times of joy or distress, that we will act to them as Jesus would

- all who provide community activities to draw in the isolated and lonely

Pray for our outreach, our service and our churches

This week we ask you to include in your prayers:

- the meeting of PCCs on Wednesday with our Patrons and the Bishop, to start the process of preparing for the recruitment for our next Rector

- the person God has chosen and is now preparing to serve him here

- those who are taking on more work during the vacancy to maintain our mission and ministry in this benefice

Pray for our mission partners

This week, we ask for your prayers for Operation Christmas Child. OCC is the branch of Samaritan’s Purse which distributes shoeboxes full of gifts to children in areas of the world affected by war, natural disaster, or other challenges. More information about all of our mission partners can be found on our website.

Please pray for:

- everyone in the UK who is getting ready to fill shoeboxes ready for the drop off week in November

- the group of children at Little Munden who have decided to form a committee organising collections there

- all the OCC staff who are setting up processing centres and organising transport from there

- the children who will receive the gifts; that God would be working in their lives already

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]).