|
PRAYER DIARY DECEMBER 2007 PARISH of |
|
St Peter’s Church, Bredhurst
All
Saints’ Church, St
Paul’s Church, Parkwood St
Matthew’s Church,Wigmore |
|
|
Daily Prayer
helps us to focus on God. As we talk with Him remember the needs in our
community and wider world
giving thanks that He hears our
prayers If you have prayers
or concerns to be included in the January Parish Prayer Diary please
advise Sue & Paul Warren |
|
|
If the prayer diary has been handed to you with the order of
service sheet and you do not wish to keep it, please hand back at
the end of the service, Many thanks |
|
|
Sat
1 Matt
11 20-end |
Pray
for Chris Ferris as he settles into his ministry at All Saints’ and responds
to the new challenges. Pray, also for Hannah and Samuel Ferris as they settle
into a new home and community. |
|
Sun 2 Ps 44 |
Prayer
and Dedication for Lasanthan
& Johanna Toy
Service, St Matthew’s Christingle,
|
|
Mon
3 Isa
25 1-9 |
Parkwood
Infants’ Christingle with Parkwood Leisure Club Final
session of 4 Gospels, One Jesus Give thanks for all that we’ve learnt
together of the different insights on Jesus |
|
Tue
4 Isa
26 1-13 |
Lord,
give us insight into the ways of the world, understanding of people and
perception of what is true and false, so that we do not harm ourselves or
others by making foolish mistakes. |
|
Wed
5 Isa
28 1-13 |
Heavenly
Father, we thank you for the great variety of weather which we experience in
the course of the year. For sunshine
and rain, clouds and wind, snow and frost, we praise and magnify you. |
|
Thu
6 Isa
28 14-end |
Chris
Butt at Abbeyfield
& Rogers House monthly Communions.
Give thanks for the Christian community and witness in our residential
and care homes. |
|
Fri
7 Isa
29 1-14 |
Heavenly
Father, give us eyes of compassion for the suffering and afflicted around us,
save us from neglecting any opportunity of giving help and may we never pass
by on the other side. |
|
Sat
8 Isa
29 15-end |
Pray
for all who are ill especially
those known to us. May
sickness, sin and sadness to thy healing virtue yield. |
|
Sun
9 Ps
80 |
Mothers’
Union Carol Service at St Matthew’s.
Pray for all who come as guests today. |
|
Mon 10 Isa 30 1-18 |
Lord,
our greatest joys are the good gifts that surround us in our daily lives: The
sun that warms us and brightens our days; the country-side in all its
matchless beauty; the gardens with their flowers and fruits; our homes and
families and friends; our books and hobbies and music. Father, for these and
all your blessings which give us joy we give you thanks. |
|
Tue
11 Isa
30 19-end |
|
|
Wed
12 Isa
31 |
Deanery
Clergy meet in the Rectory today. The
residents of: |
|
Thu
13 Isa
32 |
Fairview
School Christmas Service in St Matthew’s The
residents of: |
|
Fri
14 Isa
33 1-22 |
Deanwood
School Christmas Service in Give
thanks for the contact with our local schools in this season. |
|
Sat
15 Isa
35 |
Wigmore
Fellowship Carve-up. Give
thanks for the friendship and community expressed through the Wigmore
Fellowship. |
|
Sun
16 Ps
68 1-19 |
Nativity
plays at both St Matthew’s and The
residents of: |
|
Mon
17 Isa
38 1-8 21,22 |
Pray
for all who will be attending our Services over the Christmas Season that
they may catch the sense of wonder of the love of God expressed in the coming
of Jesus. |
|
Tue
18 Isa
38 9-20 |
Parkwood
Junior School Christmas Service at Bredhurst
School Carol Service at St Matthew’s this evening. |
|
Wed
19 Isa
39 |
Medway International Cafe: Give thanks and pray for this joint initiative
by the chaplains and members of local churches to the international students
at the university campus aimed at catering for the felt needs of the students
and aiding their integration into the local community. |
|
Thu
20 Matt
17 22-end |
School
term ends today. Pray
that children and their families and teachers will enjoy the coming break and
festive season and will return to school in the new year with renewed
enthusiasm. |
|
Fri
21 Matt
18 1-20 |
Please
pray for the clergy team coping with the pressures of this Advent/Christmas
Season without a full staff. |
|
Sat
22 Matt
18 21-end |
Give
thanks for our Readers who give so much of themselves in leading services and
preaching. |
|
Sun
23 Ps
144 |
We pray
for all who are facing change and all who struggle to understand where they
are being led. We remember all
involved in conflict and we pray for the peace of the world. |
|
Mon
24 Matt
19 1-12 |
Father,
In this
holy night there was no room for your Son in the inn, protect with your love
those who have no home and all who live in poverty. |
|
Tue
25 Matt
1 18-end |
Christmas
Day Lord,
we thank you for the message of peace that Christmas brings. Give peace among nations, peace in our land,
peace in our homes and peace in our hearts. |
|
Wed
26 Acts
6 |
Stephen, Deacon, Martyr God of
peace, we pray for a spirit of mutual interest and concern between
men and women of different colours, cultures and creeds. |
|
Thu
27 John
2 1-11 |
John, Apostle and Evangelist God of peace,
touch the wounds that racism has inflicted, heal those who have suffered
verbal or physical abuse and help us to move, in hope, towards a truly
peaceful community of peoples. |
|
Fri
28 Genesis
37 13-20 |
The Holy Innocents O God,
receive, we pray, into the arms of your mercy, all innocent victims and by
your great might frustrate all evil designs and establish your rule of love
and peace. |
|
Sat
29 Jonah
1 |
Give
thanks for our Pastoral Assistants and Bereavement Team responding to the
needs of bereaved families at this time of the year. Give thanks for our local funeral directors
for their care of bereaved families. |
|
Sun
30 Ps
105 1-11 |
"I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year, M L Haskins |
|
Mon
31 Jonah 3&4 |
|
A copy of this months Prayer Diary
can be downloaded below:-
| Prayer
Diary |
|
|
These files are designed to be printed as doubled sided - saving trees.