Sunday 18 October Moderator | Please pray for the Moderator as he takes the service on Sunday morning at Cloughwater PC, as he continues to minister to the Presbyterian church family through the weekly online service and as he meets with the Church Leaders’ group this week. Young people in worship | Give thanks
Sunday 11 October Moderator | Please pray for the Moderator as he concludes his presbytery tour of Down with a service at Trinity Boardmills. Please also continue to remember him as he prepares his weekly online service and as he represents PCI at various external meetings during the week. Praise in worship | Ask
Sunday 4 October Moderator | Pray for the Moderator as he embarks on his first Presbytery Tour of Down. Pray for him as he preaches in Killinchy, Second Comber and Trinity, Boardmills, as he engages with civic officials and for the opportunity to encourage all members of Presbytery. Harvest season | Pray for the
Sunday 27 September Moderator | Pray for the Moderator as he continues to provide a weekly online service for the Presbyterian church family and also as he commences visits to churches: Ballyhenry on Sunday 27 September and the re-opening of 1st Anaghlone on 3 October. Arrangements for worship | Give thanks for all those
In this moment A prayer that we might be refined by our experience of God Lord, you have promised to be like a refiner’s fire, proving and purifying our lives as your people. You refine us like silver and test our lives like gold. In these last months we have suffered grief and known
In this moment A prayer for discernment as life returns to a new normality Lord of this season of stepping into the future, I’m beginning to think there might not be much new, in what is becoming normal again. It’s so easy to slip back thoughtlessly into old ways, as the speed of having
In this moment A prayer to hasten slowly in a world in a hurry Lord of time, all of a sudden everything has speeded up again. After the slower, steadier pace of lockdown, hurry sickness has set in once more. I feel it in myself, I sense it all around in society, I know
In this moment A prayer of new appreciation for the community of the church Lord of the church, what a gift you have given us in the body of Christ, in living stones locally assembled to be a spiritual house. Sometimes I haven’t seen my congregation that way, as I have grumbled and complained
In this moment A prayer for going back to school God our heavenly teacher, thank you for the gift of learning, that enables us to grow in wisdom and stature, in relationship with you and others. We pray for school life as it resumes again, after months of lockdown and the long summer break.
In this moment A prayer for fresh motivation on return to work Creator God, you call us to work with you that all life might flourish, spending our days in the use of the gifts that you give us, for your glory and the good of others. As our working lives begin to return
