Last Updated: 30th March 2025

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:

- Pray for Emily, Dean, Lewis and Harvey, 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 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 Mothering Sunday weekend we ask you to include in your prayers:

- all mothers, natural, adoptive, foster, step-, God- or in any other category

- those who grieve for their mothers

- those who long to be mothers, but are facing challenges in bringing that about

- mothers who have lost a child, through death or miscarriage

Pray for our outreach, our service and our churches

This week we ask you to include in your prayers:

- your Church, our Mother Church, as we welcome into our family everyone who comes to Jesus

- our work with our local schools, as they gather in our churches this week for their Easter services

- our work with pre-school children and their carers, as Little Angels holds its Easter event on Saturday

- our work with families, through the café and other outreach

Pray for our mission partners

In our cycle of prayers for our mission partners, this week we ask you to remember the work of David and Marlene Fry. David and Marlene work in Austria for OM.

They ask prayer for:

- David's health following Covid, especially strength for flights and participation in the OM Far East Annual Conference, with good collaboration from all

- More specialist staff and volunteers, with sufficient support of all kinds for their upkeep

- Marlene's work among refugees with very varying numbers, especially during Ramadan

- Marlene's appointment with an Orthopaedic Surgeon for her very painful ankles

They send their love and prayers with thanks for our prayers.

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.