Each month we are being asked to pray for a Mission4Life Partner.
Here are the prayer requests for December 2009 - March 2010
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Revd David Whiting visits the city manager and retail companies especially Debenhams in Stockton on a regular basis. Debenhams has a national policy of opening on Boxing Day, yet in Stockton they are the only store open. The pressure this can put workers and their families under is immense and the chaplain provides a listening ear.
God amongst us
We thank you for those
who give expression to your presence
as work-place chaplains.
Help them to critique businesses that dehumanise,
challenge injustice in the market place.
offer a listening ear and be a supportive companion
to employers and employees,
and to support Christians
in their every
Revd David Herbert is researching the impact of the St Cuthbert’s Way on people. This will help churches engage with outdoor spirituality and tourism as part of their mission. Keeping rural issues on the agenda is also important for the Rural Advisor alongside supporting rural churches in engaging with their communities through projects such as cinema, heritage or green issues.
Loving God,
For food so delicious.
For taste and for flavour,
For feeling hungry
And the joy of eating.
We thank and praise you.
Loving God,
For all in the food chain,
From field to factory,
Seller to buyer
Each one depending on the others
We thank and praise you.
Loving God
For our beautiful countryside
For crops and animals
Fruit and fish
For sunshine and rain
We thank and praise you. Amen.(Prayer from the Arthur Rank Centre)
Mission 4 Life provides small grants to churches which can help to develop children’s work. This may be an after school club, Messy Church or holiday play scheme, and may fund training for workers, equipment or trips.
This month as well as giving thanks for churches able to support such ministry through Mission 4 Life grants your prayers are also asked for the discussions that are to take place in regard to synod-wide support of children’s and youth work.
Jesus, you said the way to God’s kingdom
Is to become child-like.
Empower us to do so
As we wonder and see you all around.
Help us to support children
As they grow to know you
By offering love, kindness and space.
Enable us to encourage Christian workers with children
And to support them in their ministry.
Amen.
The Centre’s mission is inspired by St Cuthbert and therefore focuses on kindness and hospitality to visitors. It is a space for teaching and encouraging folk in the Christian life and witness. Through the 'bothy', retreats at the Centre, and the setting of the island visitors find peace and solitude. It is a place of reconciliation and the renewal of worship.(www.holyisland-stcuthbert.org/mission.htm)
Almighty God,
Who called your servant Cuthbert
From following the flock to follow your Son
And to be a shepherd of your people:
In your mercy,
Grant that we, following his example
And caring for those who are lost,
May bring them home to your fold
Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen(Common Prayer - Collect for St Cuthbert’s Day, March 20th)