Prayer pointers was last updated in time for Sunday 21st September
This page offers prayer suggestions relating to our Benefice for personal use, or in public prayers of thanksgiving and intercession. Don't feel obliged to use all of it; and make sure to add matters from outside our small part of the church and world!
Please pass on prayer requests to Stephen, via email. Please do not request prayers for the health or wellbeing of named individuals in this public space.
Appeal for help
We pray that Stephen's pew sheet appeal for assistance with the ministries of administration, publicity, social media and baptisms will be answered and that these important areas of church life will be blessed with a larger team to share the workload and the diverse contributions which others might bring.
The week to come
We pray for the PCCs of Askham and Bampton as they prepare to meet together for the first time, to begin their new phase of journeying together as one parish.
We pray for the PCC of Crosby Ravensworth as it meets to direct the affairs of its busy church.
Next weekend we look forward to a band concert in Shap and Harvest services in Shap and Bolton. We pray for their success.
Good Neighbours
We pray for Debbie, our new Good Neighbour project coordinator, and for Sue, as they prepare to take the project live. We give thanks for the time we have spent together designing materials, planning our safeguarding systems, and getting IT systems to work as we need them to. We give particular thanks for our first volunteers signed up.
Growing Younger
Our prayer priority this week is for the Big One in Keswick on Saturday 27th. We pray for all the children and leaders attending, and especially pray for Ruth and Andy Ward as they complete their preparations.
We also pray for JAM in Morland; school lunch club also in Morland; collective worship in Morland and Crosby Ravensworth; youth groups in Shap, Morland, Maulds Meaburn and Bolton; and for the congregation of our Youth Cafe Church.
We continue to be thankful for the great success, and many new faces, at our youth groups. We give thanks for the delight with which our programme of activities has been received by our young people, especially our planned Weekend Away in November, and for our volunteers and the activities they plan to deliver in the coming term.
Ministers
We pray for our ordinands, Sue and Lou, and for their supervision meetings with Stephen this week.
We pray for the ministry of all our churches as the busy time of Harvest, Remembrance, Advent and Christmas approaches.
We pray for Deanery Chapter, for all its ministers, and for the Deanery Retreat which will be held in our Benefice on 7th and 8th October.
About prayer pointers ThePrayer pointers page was a suggestion made at one of our Saturday morning training sessions on 15th February 2025. Talking about leading interecessions, we identified the importance of praying, as a benefice, for all the different needs and activities of our communities, churches, PCCs and congregations. In order to do this effectively, we need to know what each other are doing.