Children and Families’ work There will be an extra to our pattern this week with children’s activities offered at Goring during the 9.30am service. Please pray for this and discerning what might be further done to support families over the coming months. Thank you.
Moonrakers concert, Friday 27th June at 7:30pm Moonrakers is an Oxford-based group of four musicians who pride themselves in having brought traditional and contemporary folk music to new audiences in village halls, churches, arts centres and festivals across the UK.
This week we are asked to pray:
Prayers for the week from Roots on the web Heavenly Father, on this day of Pentecost, we ask that your Church here and all over the world will know a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit. May we as Christians be unafraid to tell others about Jesus. Loosen our tongues, Lord, to tell your wondrous story! We pray that you will help us to speak in ways that those in our communities understand. May we be clear in our message of love, hope, and faith. Loosen our tongues, Lord, to tell your wondrous story! We ask that your Holy Spirit will be with us, bringing down any barriers which divide us. Loosen our tongues, Lord, to tell your wondrous story! May we be empowered to leave our comfort zones and tell others about our faith! Loosen our tongues, Lord, to tell your wondrous story! Amen Father, we pray for a world where divisions so often lead to warfare. Today we think particularly of the Middle East, where our faith began, different yet sharing things in common with other faiths; and we pray for peace among all the descendants of Abraham. Lord, let there be peace. And we pray for the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, asking that common humanity might be recognised and common ground be found. Lord, let there be peace. In all places where weapons wield unholy power, may your Holy Spirit break down barriers and bring peace. Amen We think of all the things which divide us as Christians, Lord – varying beliefs and ways of worship, different ideas on how things should be done – and we pray that we might learn to value this rich diversity for the blessing it is. As we picture in our minds all the churches within our community, we pray for empowerment in our common purpose to bear witness to you. May we be aware this day and always that our prayers rise as one to the God who listens to his children. Therefore, hear us, O Father, as we pray for those who are unwell at this time, and for the bereaved, and for those who are vulnerable in our community; may we know how to reach out and touch them with your love, for the Holy Spirit has come among us in gentleness as well as power. Hear our prayers, O Lord, and may the Holy Spirit open our ears as well as our lips, so that we listen to what you have to say to us in this day and age, your people ever walking onwards in the Way of Jesus. Amen