Last Updated: 22nd December 2024

Here we suggest focus points 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 continue to pray for the grieving families of Margaret Bennett, Posy Williams, Patrick Perry, Dorothy Smith and Stephen Ince.

- Gwen fell early this week and broke her hip. She received surgery on Thursday and is now recovering in hospital. Please pray for her, for Ken (whose birthday was on Friday) and for Elaine and all those who have been helping out. If you can spare an hour to spend time with Ken, please speak to Jacqui.

- Please continue to pray for Angela C and the staff at Westgate House who care for her.

- 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 week we ask you to include in your prayers:

- all who are seeking meaning in their lives, that they will find it in Christ

- all who will travel in the next days, to visit family or friends, that journeys will be smooth and safe

Pray for our outreach, our service and our churches

This week we ask you to include in your prayers:

- our flower arrangers, who have worked so hard to make our churches beautiful for Christmas

- our Christingle services and carol services, that all who come will meet with Jesus

- Flo and Dave, as they prepare for their wedding on 28th

Pray for our mission partners

In our cycle of prayers for our mission partners, this week we ask you to remember The Holy Land Institute for the Deaf, Salt, Jordan. More information about our partners can be found on our website.

This Christian School is a safe haven of peace for 150 young people from the ages of 4 to 25. Some of us visited this school whilst in Jordan - a visit none of us will ever forget.

Please pray for:

- the school’s full range of therapeutic services for hearing-impaired, deaf, and deaf-blind students

- its academic boarding programme and wide range of vocational training programs

- the deaf blind children to understand and appreciate the glory and beauty of this time of joy

- its commitment to the need to have another language to serve the deaf: the language of love

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.