MAY 2025 - for your prayers
A huge thank you to everyone for your part in our keeping of Lent, Holy Week and Easter. And for the many answered prayers for new people to feel welcome, for the refreshments, for the flower arrangers, for the 12 children welcomed to receive Holy Communion, for care and safety as the large wooden Cross was carried out of Church on Good Friday and Easter Day as a symbol of Jesus’ forgiveness and rising to new life.
Bishop Guli’s Tribute to His Holiness Pope Francis
“In an increasingly divided and troubled world, Pope Francis was a powerful and important voice for unity. He will be remembered for his commitment to ecumenism and interfaith relations and as a passionate advocate for the poor, the marginalised and the least powerful, never more so when speaking up for refugees and migrants. As we mourn his death, we give thanks for his faith, leadership and compassion.”
- 7th: CONCLAVE begins to elect new Pope: pray for the Spirit’s guidance
- 8th: VE DAY COMMEMORATIONS: gratitude for our freedom and peace at great cost. We pray for lasting peace in many areas of conflict in the world
- 17th: PCC LISTENING Morning 9.30-11.30am
- 20th: NEW PCC MEETS 7.45 in Church: pray for vision and wise decisions
- 26th: HOLIDAY CLUB 10am in Church Halls: for fun, safety and learning
- 29th: ASCENSION DAY SERVICE 7.30pm in Church
- 29th-8th June: THY KINGDOM COME useful prayer resources to use between Ascension and Pentecost
PRAYER FOR CHURCH GROWTH
God of Mission who alone brings growth to your Church, send your Holy Spirit to give vision to our planning, wisdom to our actions, and power to our witness. Help your church to grow in numbers, in spiritual commitment to you, and in loving service to our local community, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
We pray GOD’s BLESSING on all who live or travel in these roads in the Parish:
- Cairns Avenue
- Canfield Road
- Chapelmount
- Chigwell Road
- Claybury Road
- Copford Close
Posted 30 April 2025
