Last Updated: 18th January 2026

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

- Please pray for Jo M’s Mum, Anne, who is recovering at home after suffering a stroke over Christmas.

- Pray for all who grieve, especially the family and friends of Julie Williams, Maurice Debnam and John Saggers.

Pray for our community

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

- our local foodbank, Gemma and the team work to supply the need for food parcels

- those who visit our churchyards to tend to the graves of loved ones

- all who visit our churches outside service times, that they will experience the peace of Christ

Pray for our outreach, our service and our churches

This week we ask you to include in your prayers:

- the team undertaking our children’s and youth work as they spend time in our church schools, at café and at Little Angels

- our pastoral team, as it visits and maintains contact with many of our church family

- those who look after our churchyards

Pray for our mission partners

In our cycle of prayers for our mission partners, this week we ask you to pray for the work of Stephen & Catherine McGoldrick. In June they were ‘installed’ as leaders of Acts 13 which is now called WEC Africa.

They are responsible for over 50 workers who are mission mobilisers for African missionaries in 19 countries.

More information about our partners can be found on our website.

Please pray for:

- all of them as they fly to Burundi on 21st January and settle back into life there

- Catherine as she home schools Jacques & Asher

- the family as they pack up their house after 10 years and prepare to move to Tanzania

- Stephen not to have a flare up of his PMR (Polymyalgia rheumatica) or any more problems with his eyes

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]).