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Pst nd th Sat 1 , Sun 2 – Sat 8 August If you have a visitor book, pray for all those who have come to your church and thank God for all those who will visit this summer: That they may experience God in the visit. in three Persons, by proclaiming and living our faith in you.

1. Please pray for all those in our diocese 6. The Collect for the feast of the who work to promote and uphold our Transfiguration:Father in heaven, whose diverse foreign links. Son Jesus Christ was wonderfully 2. Please pray for the Wolborough and transfigured before chosen witnesses upon Ogwell Benefice, currently in vacancy, the holy mountain, and spoke of the exodus Readers Keith Butler and Jeremy Howell he would accomplish at Jerusalem: give us and the congregations at St Bartholomew, strength so to hear his voice and bear our Ogwell, St Mary, Wolborough and St Paul cross that in the world to come we may see in . him as he is; who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, 3. Please pray for Netherexe Parishes now and for ever. Mission Community, currently in vacancy, Revd Sue Sheppard and the congregations 7. Pray for the Hartland Deanery, Rural Dean at the Church of Our Lady, , Andrew Richardson, Lay Chair Anne Irwin, St Thomas of Canterbury, , secretary Sylvia West and Treasurer St Mary Magdalene, , St Paul Dean. Mary the Virgin and St John the Baptist in 8. Please pray for all those leading and Netherexe, St Mary the Virgin, taking part in the Interfaith Ceremony with , St Cyr & St Julitta, Newton of Remembrance at the Peace Tree on St Cyres, St Anthony, Cowley, St Michael Southernhay West in to mark the and All Angels, Cadbury, and St Peter, 70th commemoration of Hiroshima Bramford Speke. Memorial Day. 4. In our link Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf, please pray for the communications team and for good communications in and from the Body of Christ. 5. Please pray for the Archdeacon of Exeter the Venerable Christopher Futcher and his PA Peter Colebrook.

.:: www.exeter.anglican.org :: twitter.com/cofedevon :: facebook search ::. Sun 9th – Sat 15th August This week spend time thinking about God’s world. How can everyone flourish and God’s creation be protected amid problems such as over-consumption and inequality? Grapple with these issues in prayer.

9. Pray for Ottery Deanery, their Rural Dean 13. Today, hold in prayer the North Creedy Catherine Edmonds, Lay Chair Shirley (East) Mission Community, currently in Ann-Williams, secretary Jenefer Golding vacancy, their clergy Kingsley Cross and and treasurer Judy Davis. the congregations at St Mary, 10. Hold in prayer Penny Hamilton chaplain at Woolfardisworthy East, St Peter, Washford and Community Pyne, St Mary the Virgin, Stockleigh Hospitals. Pomeroy, St Mary the Virgin, , St Thomas A Beckett, Puddington, 11. Please pray for Ven Joyce Kabuba and the St Michael and All Angels, Poughill, St John clergy and people of Ruiru Archdeaconry in the Baptist, and St Matthew, our link Diocese of Thika. . 12. On International Youth Day pray for young 14. Please pray for and and people everywhere, that they would have the congregations at St Disen, Bradninch the things they need to thrive. and St John the Baptist, Plymtree. 15. On this day marking VJ Day pray for all those leading and taking part in events in London and elsewhere. Bring before God all those who served and still serve in Information included in this prayer diary is the Armed Forces. Remember especially taken from the diocesan database and was the veterans, prisoners of war and civilian accurate at the time of publication. internees as they mark this historic 70th If there are any changes please email anniversary commemorating the end of the [email protected] war in the Pacific.

“And this is the confidence that we have before toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.” 1 JOHN 5:14 Sun 16th – Sat 22nd August This week pray for all the young people at Soul Survivor in Somerset: That they may fun and enjoy worship and learning that brings them into a closer relationship with God.

16. In Melanesia, we pray for the diocese 20. Hold in prayer the North Kenn Team of Isabel and for its Bishop, the Rt Revd Mission Community, their clergy Martin Richard Naramana who retires in October. Wood and the congregations at 17. Please pray for the North Creedy St Catherine, St Thomas & Pathfinder: (West) Mission Community, their clergy St John the Evangelist, Whitestone with Lindsey Starrs, Reader Fred Cann Oldridge, St Mary, Cheriton Bishop, and congregations at St Peter, Zeal St Mary, , and St John the Monachorum, St Bartholomew, Nymet Baptist, . Rowland, St Mary, , 21. Pray for your local clergy team and Thomas of Canterbury, , St Mary the for all those who lead worship in your Virgin, , St Boniface, Knowle, local churches. St Andrew, Colebrooke, St Matthew, 22. Please pray for the Northam & Appledore , St Petrock, and Mission Community, their clergy Ian Lovett St Bartholomew, Bow. David Carrington & Sandra Juniper, the 18. Today hold in prayer the Tiverton and Readers Deborah Bayliss, Glen Yeo, Deanery, their Lay Chair and Nigel Price, Jonathan Ellis & Anne Foster secretary Simon Friend and treasurer Ginny and for the congregations at St Margaret, Metherell, and their former Rural Dean Bideford, Holy Trinity, Westward Ho and Barry Dugmore as he takes up his new St Mary, Appledore. role as Mission Enabler this month, and his successor (to be announced). 19. Pray today for the Coast Mission Community, currently in vacancy their clergy Jean Loveday and the congregations at St Peter, , Christ Church, , St Martin, , St Mary the Virgin, , St Bartholomew, , St John the Evangelist. , St John the Baptist, , St Peter, , St , Brendon and St Peter, . CHURCH OF ENGLAND DEVON PRAYERS Sun 23rd – Sat 29th August, Sun 30th – Mon 31st August This week pray for all traders around the diocese that they may earn enough in the tourist season to sustain them through the rest of the year. Also pray for all involved, leaders and traders in Exeter, as they prepare for the launch of the Exeter Pound on 1st September.

23. On Slave Memorial Day pray for an end to 28. Hold in prayer the Otter Vale Mission the exploitation of human beings for profit Community, their clergy Steve Weston, in its many forms. Pray for support agencies Mark Ward, Cate Edmonds, Ann Turner, and police in their work, that they would Mac Dick, Richard Allen, John Pangbourne get the support and resources they need to and their readers John White, David address the horrors of modern slavery. Williamson, Alan Steel and Ann Yates 24. Bring to God the Northmoor Mission and the congregations at St Michael The Community, their clergy Stephen Cook, Archangel, West Hill, Saint Michael, St John, Ruth Hansford, Dave Atallah, Richard Bache Tipton St John & St Gregory, Venn Ottery, and their Readers Sandra Collier, Christine St Mary the Virgin, , St Mary Taylor, Kerry Friend, Michael Winter, Andrew the Virgin, & St Edward the Bourne, Ingrid Dodd and the congregations Confessor, Wiggaton, St Luke, Newton at St Thomas of Canterbury, , Poppleford, St Gregory The Great, Harpford, All Saints & St James, , St Andrew, , St Philp & St James, St Thomas of Canterbury, , Escot, St John the Baptist, St Petrock, , St James, , & St James & St Anne, . St Petroc, , St John the Baptist, 29. In our link with the Roman Catholic , St German, , Diocese of Bayeaux-Lisieux in France St Mary Blessed Virgin, , please pray for pastoral teams, especially St Bridget, , St Mary the Virgin, those preparing others to support parishes Bratton , St Mary & All Saints, in various ministries: catechesis, tourism, and St Mary, . taking funerals. 25. Today we pray for Deanery. Their 30. Please pray for the parish of Christ Rural Dean Julian Ould, Lay Chair David Church Ellacombe, their priest-in-charge Stafford and Secretary Susan Jozsa. and pioneer priest Paul Ireton and the 26. Please pray for the Mission congregation at Christ Church Ellacombe. Community, their clergy Peter Walker 31. On this Bank Holiday pray for rest and & Reader Katharine Murray and the renewal for all those involved in ministry congregations at St Cuthbert, , in your local area. St Mary, Offwell, St Giles, , St Michael & All Angels, and St Michael, . 27. Pray for the parish of with , their clergy Andy Barton & Nick Law, Reader Susan Belfield and the congregations at St Andrew, Bere Ferrers & Holy Trinity , Bere Alston.

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