Resident Chaplain (House for Duty) for Goring Heath Almshouses The Bishop of Dorchester and the trustees of Goring Heath Charities are looking for a Resident Chaplain (House for Duty) for Goring Heath Almshouses, Goring Heath, RG8 7RS. They are seeking a "People Person" priest for the "parish in miniature" of the Goring Heath Almshouses, set in 23 acres of grounds in the beautiful South Oxfordshire countryside. Please click here for more information.
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 for:
Prayers for the week Thank you to Judith for this week’s prayers. Heavenly Father, we thank you for all the ways in which you have blessed us in our community, for the volunteers who enable the drop-in, the lunch club, pick-a-flick, Goring in Bloom, and many other activities to take place, helping people to socialise and work together. We thank you also for our doctors, nurses and carers, our firefighters, postal workers and shopkeepers and all who work to protect us and help us thrive. For all these blessings we give you thanks and praise. Merciful Lord, we pray for our world. There are so many areas where there is war or political unrest, countries where drought and famine are rife, or where earthquakes, landslides, forest fires and flooding have made many people homeless. We acknowledge that as human beings we are responsible for many of these problems. We have failed to share what we have with those less fortunate, and we have failed to look after our planet and its resources. Please forgive us and help us to commit ourselves to making the world a better place. Please bring peace between Russia and Ukraine and between Israel and the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank, as well as the many other places where there is conflict today. Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer. Father, we pray for the relatives and friends of those who died in the air crash in India on Thursday. Please comfort the bereaved and the injured and help the investigators to discover the cause of the accident. Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer. Almighty God, we pray for your church worldwide. We thank you for the growth in numbers of people coming to faith in Jesus in various parts of the world and pray for a similar growth in our own land. Help us to be more courageous and share our faith more readily with those around us. Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer. Lord, please bless our mission partners, Steve and Lindsey, and their baby daughter. Help them with all the projects they are involved in, in Honduras, and protect them and the young people they work with from harm, especially from the gangs. Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer. Merciful Father, please bless and heal all those we know who are sick at this time. Show us how we can support them and grant that they will feel your presence with them. We pray also for those who have recently lost loved ones and ask you to comfort them. Merciful Father, accept these prayers for the sake of your son, our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.