Prayer pointers was last updated in time for Sunday 3rd August.
This page offers prayer suggestions for personal use and for intercessions relating to the Benefice in our Sunday services. Don't feel obliged to use all of it!
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.
Giving thanks for the last week
Our ministers are enjoying a quieter week. We are giving thanks for the lovely gathering of some of our young people from 3 youth groups at Askham pool on Monday.
We give thanks for Morland Choristers' Camp and for the joyful praise it has produced. We pray that it will have inspired young people in their art and in their faith. We pray that it will bring benefits to our own benefice, its life of worship and its young people.
The week to come
We pray for our meeting with Dr Susan Young of the Jesuit Institute next week, as we seek to develop that relationship.
Wednesday 10am
Pray for the congregation of our Benefice service of Holy Communion, which takes place every Wednesday, 10am, in Morland. They pray for you also. Give thanks for this faithful, lively and welcoming congregation, whicfh gives such support to our ministries. Consider prayerfully whether you might be able to join us from time to time.
Good Neighbours
Give thanks for the appointment of a coordinator for the Good Neighbours project. Pray for the success of this project as those involved in coordinating it meet for the first time this week.
Growing Younger
Pray for Ruth as she prepares to lead summer camp for Scripture Union this weekend, while also planning our own Autumn and Christmas programme.
Give thanks for the 10 families who have currently booked baptisms with us for this year. As Ruth develops new systems for the administration of baptisms, we pray for all the visits she will make to baptism families, that they may be fruitful, and the start of a journey of exploration in faith, however tentative. Ask God to bless the worship during which families will be welcomed into the church. Pray that we will find new and innovative ways to use this ministry to grow faith in those who come to us for this special ministry.
Online presence
We give thanks for the use we are able to make of online communications and social media. Help us Lord to prosper this work and reach out beyond our congregations. In this most hazardous of human activities, keep us on a straight and narrow path. May our corner of the internet always be one that glorifies you.
Diocesan Development Plans
Pray for the working group emerging within Deanery Synod to direct the expenditure of our Rural Pilot grant.
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.