Last Updated: 26th July 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 those mourning the deaths of Anna Miles, Stella Illot, Keith Smith and Lilian Millward.

- Please continue to pray for those of our church family who are unwell, undergoing treatment, waiting for tests or procedures or grieving.

Pray for our community

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

- children attending holiday activities, and parents juggling work and childcare through the holiday

- those who look after our public spaces

- our emergency services, responding to increasing numbers of call-outs

Pray for our outreach, our service and our churches

This week we ask you to include in your prayers:

- plans for HBC, that more helpers will step forward and that we don’t have to turn children away

- leaders of our various groups as they take a break over the summer to refresh and recharge

- our visiting clergy and organists, helping us out during this continuing vacancy

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 and Catherine McGoldrick. They face a time of transition as they prepare to take up their new ministry in Tanzania. More information about our partners can be found on our website.

Stephen and Catherine ask for prayer:

In August:

- returning to UK for an Africa Support Conference

- Stephen visiting their team in Ghana

- family visits

In September:

- heading back to Burundi to empty their house, saying farewell to friends and then driving to Arusha, Tanzania

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]).