Last Updated: 13th April 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:

- Pray for Emily, Dean, Lewis, Harvey and Sue, who are preparing for their confirmation in May.

- Please continue to pray for Hayley and her family.

- Please pray for those who are grieving, especially the family and friends of Suzanne Dow, Philip Pudsey-Dawson and Bridget Wentworth-Stanley.

- 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:

- our MP and others as they consider how to vote on the Assisted Dying bill

- the work of our local foodbank, and for all who have need of it, as many of us prepare to over indulge over the Easter period

- those in care homes and sheltered housing, especially those who will not have friends and family around them this week

- those who have been released from prison, and the probation service as it seeks to help them reintegrate into society

Pray for our outreach, our service and our churches

This week we ask you to include in your prayers:

- our Holy Week and Easter services, and all who will attend

- our flower arrangers as they decorate our churches for Easter

- our electoral roll officers as they gather in and process the applications

- those whom God is calling to serve on our PCCs

Pray for our mission partners

In our cycle of prayers for our mission partners, this week we ask you to remember the work of Stephen and Catherine McGoldrick. Stephen and Catherine are planning to return to Burundi when Stephen’s health allows, in order to continue their work partnering the church in Africa in training African Christians and equipping them to make disciples in their own countries. This ministry goes under the name of Acts 13, and Stephen and Catherine have been asked to take over the leadership of the organisation from June this year.

They ask prayer for:

- God to show them his desire for Acts 13

- his provision for all they need

- peace and wisdom about timings for their future plans

- his healing for Stephen’s health problems

They also ask us to give thanks that they have been assured of the tenancy of a house in Buckinghamshire until they return to Burundi.

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.