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Prayer Letter
September / October 2006 “Ask
the Lord for rain in the springtime; it is the Lord who makes the storm clouds.
He gives showers of rain to men, and plants of the field to everyone.”
(Zechariah 10:1) Mindful
of our approaching harvest festival, this verse from Zechariah 10 is a timely
reminder that it is the Lord who meets all our needs on a daily basis and that
it is to the Lord that our requests ought to be made. So the forthcoming harvest
season is an ideal time to both celebrate and give thanks to the Lord for all
his generous blessings and also to raise up our needs before Him afresh. In
the last prayer letter I drew your attention to problems we were having with a
fresh spate of vandalism at the church. Since that prayer letter went out in
July I have to tell you that we have been blessed with a trouble free few
months! Considering the increased opportunity for vandalism in the longer
evenings in July and August, this has to be a cause for rejoicing and
thanksgiving! I
would also like to mention the Holiday Club at St John’s at the end of August
for special thanksgiving. Several of our young people from Christ Church
attended during the week and by all accounts both enjoyed and gained
tremendously from the experience. Please give thanks to God for all those
leaders and young people who worked so hard to make the Holiday Club an
enjoyable and edifying experience for all who came. Finally,
we were delighted as a congregation to learn at the end of August that Glyn
Lucas has been accepted to train for ordination. Glyn attended a selection
conference earlier in the summer and after a rigorous selection procedure,
received a very warm commendation from the bishop’s advisors. That Glyn should
have been selected for training will come as little surprise to those who have
benefited from his ministry both here and at St John’s, though it is true to
say that the Church of England’s gain will be our loss! Please pray for Glyn,
Anne and the family as their plans for moving take shape in the next 12 months. Looking
forward into the coming months, I would ask for your prayers for the resumption
of our Sunday school and youth groups. Please pray for the leaders as they
prepare their teaching programme and for the young people as they return to the
groups. The Growth Groups will begin again on the 27th September. Please pray
for the group leaders, Dave and Jean Jones and Danny and Janet Greaves and for
the group members as those meetings re-commence. It is our desire that through
this ministry God will strengthen our congregation by deepening our love for Him
and for one another, and by leading us to growing maturity in our Christian
faith, witness and ministries. Thank
you again for your invaluable prayer and support.
David
Please contact Ruth Port or Morag Sutton if you’d like to contribute to the bi-monthly prayer letter. Deadline for
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