Last Updated: 25th 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:

- Please pray for Winston, and for his parents and God-parents as they make their vows at his baptism.

- Pray for Jade, and praise God that she has been accepted for ordination training.

- Please pray for Bob Bennett, in hospital with cancer.

- 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:

- all who are clinically depressed, or entertaining thoughts of suicide

- the disabled, many of them worrying about the coming changes in PIP eligibility

- those cared for in residential facilities, and those who care for them

- our probation services, already stretched, as the demands on their time and expertise expand, and the ex-convicts they support

Pray for our outreach, our service and our churches

This week we ask you to include in your prayers:

- the various teams who make sure our churches are clean and tidy, who prepare coffee and tea, who welcome everyone as they arrive and generally take care of all that happens around our services

- John and Caroline, leading services but also doing much more in our benefice

- Michael and the benefice choir, Rob, Gaby and Rebecca, as they lead the music in our worship each week

Pray for our mission partners

In our cycle of prayers for our mission partners, this week we ask you to remember the work of CPAS Ventures. CPAS Ventures run just over 50 Christian holidays for children aged 8-18. Orwell 3 is the 11-14 holiday which Lizzy F helps to lead, and which our young people attend. More information about our partners can be found on our website.

- Praise God for the number of leaders and assistant leaders who are signed up

- Pray for the young people, that God may be preparing their hearts and minds for what they will hear in the summer

- Pray for the whole team of leaders and assistant leaders, meeting together at the end of June to plan and to pray

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.