2nd & 4th Tuesdays, 9am – 10am
On site: Circuit Office, behind Minehead Methodist Church on the Avenue
Please feel free to gather locally!
On line: Zoom:
https://zoom.us/j/9164301643?pwd=Y05pM0tpN3lqRGc1Ym54Rm5wQnAydz09&omn=99586003700
Meeting ID: 916 430 1643, Passcode: 24051738
Please also feel free to participate at home, whenever is convenient for you. I hope that you shall be able to join us as we journey into God’s presence together.
Our theme for this autumn month is “families within our church and community who are struggling”. This may be financial, caring responsibilities, family breakdowns, grief, emotional or physical health, housing, legal or social issues.
If you have any suggestions or questions about future topics, please let me know,
Every Blessing, Rev Andy Day.
Dear Friends,
Our theme for this autumn month is “families within our church and community who are struggling”.
WE come together today to realise that our God is an awesome God. So, although we come together today to petition for those around us who are struggling, we recognise that we need first to trust and give thanks and praise to the LORD.
Psalm 71.14 “As for me, I will always have hope; I will praise you more and more.”
With God nothing is impossible. He can calm storms of all kinds, especially those within our hearts, families & communities.
He is good and consistent even through our trials and challenges, even when we don’t feel it or see it.
WE ask God for forgiveness where we have sinned, especially where we have faced troubles and struggles and been found wanting.
We give thanks for the help God has made within our community. For our own leaders Andy and Chloe and their work with struggling families – for Priscilla who works with toddlers, for Jess’ and Penny’s outreach work, for holiday clubs and escape rooms where we bring your Word to children, for pastoral care and visits to homes, schools and colleges from those within our congregation such as the work at West Somerset college by Youth Pastors, for the food cupboard, Clare and the people and volunteers at Home Start, the Hope Centre, Community Council, Kite project, public services including care and youth work and neighbourly concern and care for others.
We remember Job’s reply to You Lord (Job 42.2) “I know that You can do all things; no purpose of Yours can be thwarted.”
Let us pray bold prayers for these struggling families.
Let us pray they will be helped by
• Asking for Your help.
• Strength, fortitude, respite and assistance of their needs.
• Neighbourly concern and understanding.
• Better advice for those in need
• The work and influence of Your people
• Recruiting new help in organisations, families and communities
• Generous donations and funding from all sources
Let us petition for people, organisations we ask for now, either silently or out loud
Let us imagine the day when Jesus returns and there will be “no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away” (Rev 21.4).
In Jesus name we pray Amen.