Prayers

We pray for:​

• growth in our fellowship and a renewed life in our church

• all those parts of our world enduring conflict – especially Gaza, Israel/Palestine,  Lebanon, Sudan, Ukraine

• greater understanding and tolerance between different faiths and a
  closer working together

• Safeguarding officers in all churches

• wisdom, kindness and understanding in all discussions taking place in relation to the debate on issues of assisted dying

• all who are ill in hospital, waiting for test results or surgery

• bereaved families mourning the death of loved ones

 

Amen​

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A prayer for Israel-Palestine:

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God of peace and compassion,
We pray for all impacted by the escalation in conflict in Israel-Palestine
For all who are mourning
For all who are fearful, today, and for what may lie ahead
For all traumatised and re-traumatised by what they have experienced.
Enable us to stand in solidarity with people of peace.
May your Spirit bring peace and healing to your troubled world. 

Amen

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God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;
He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear;

He burns the shields with fire.
“Be still, and know that I am God! I am exalted among the nations, I am exalted in the earth.”
The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.

Psalm 46, v1 & v9-11

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