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CHURCH OF PRAYERS DEVON Sun 25th – Sat 31st January ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ Acts 20:35. Think this week about those people you know who may need to receive a comforting or encouraging word or gesture. Bring them to God in prayer. Prayers 25. Pray for the Alphington Mission 28. ‘For where two or three gather in my Thu 1st – Sat 3rd January 1. At the start of a new year, we pray for Community. Their clergy Stephen Bessent name, there I am with them.’ Matthew God always o ers us a new day and a new peace in our world: and Mark Nightingale, their reader Lesley 18:20. Thank God for Bible study and God, our refuge and strength, dawn, no matter what has gone before. Phillips-Cannon and the congregations of prayer groups who meet around the bring near the day when wars shall cease St George, Shillingford St George, Diocese, faithfully praying for the life of As a new year begins, give thanks for last and poverty and pain shall end, St Ida, Ide and St. Michael & All the Diocese, and holding before God its year, seek forgiveness for where you have that earth may know the peace of heaven Angels, Alphington. diverse communities and people. failed, and commit the new year to God – through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. to serve Him and love Him afresh. 26. Remember in prayer our Acting 29. We remember the Benefi ce of Christ 2. In hope and faith we o er ourselves anew Archdeacons the Ven Mike Edson in Church Ellacombe, their Priest in Charge, to God, asking that God be with us and Archdeaconry and the Ven Paul Ireton, and the congregation of committing ourselves to the task ahead. Clive Cohen in Archdeaconry. Christ Church, Ellacombe. 3. Pray for all those involved in microfi nance Thanking God for all their commitment 30. Pray for the ministry of the Bishop of in our Companion Diocese of Thika in and energy. , the Rt Revd . Kenya - setting up savings and loans 27. Please pray for the Ashburton & Moorland 31. Pray for all attending the diocesan groups for hundreds of people who Mission Community. Their clergy David safeguarding training day in The Old cannot access formal banking - providing Sherwood, Corynne Cooper, Geo rey Deanery, Exeter and bring to God the fi nance and business training. Fenton, their Readers Peter Kennett, work done by Sarah Miller and Catherine “And I tell you, ask, and it Marion Kaye, Keith Miller and the Allen in that department. congregations in , will be given to you; , Leusdon, , Huccaby, Ashburton, Buckland in the Moor seek and you will fi nd; and . knock, and it will be opened to you.” LUKE 11:9

.:: www.exeter.anglican.org :: twitter.com/cofedevon :: facebook search ::. .:: www.exeter.anglican.org :: twitter.com/cofedevon :: facebook search diocese of exeter ::. Sun 4th – Sat 10th January Sun 11th - Sat 17th January Sun 18th – Sat 24th January This week hold before God your local God created this beautiful planet as a Let us pray for unity among the churches during this Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. school. Pray for pupils and teachers as place where we might fl ourish in a just and From this year’s resources (www.cbti.org.uk) we pray: they return following the Christmas sustainable way. Pray for all those a ected Triune God, following the example of Jesus, make us witnesses to your love. holiday. Ask God to help the sta and by corruption and climate change. Pray Grant us to become instruments of justice, peace and solidarity. young people as they face the new for God’s wisdom and grace for these May your Spirit move us towards concrete actions that lead to unity. challenges and exciting opportunities that issues. Thank God for those who work for May walls be transformed into bridges. this year brings. a change in attitudes. This we pray in the name of Jesus Christ in the unity of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

4. Today remember the Withycombe Raleigh 11. Pray for the Yealm and Erme Mission 18. Pray for our Companion Diocese of 22. Bring to God the Mission Mission Community: their clergy, Robert Community: Priest in Charge, Anne Legge Bayeaux-Lisieux in France. Especially for Community. Their clergy John Leonard Sellers, Stephen Hoyle and Trevor Smyth, and the congregations of All Saints, a warm welcome for speakers taking part and Gill Still, their readers: Ian Firth, and the congregations of All Saints, , Holy Cross, , in this week’s preacher exchange. Ruth Bettesworth, Tim Collins, and the St John in the Wilderness and St John the and St. Peter, Revelstoke. 19. On Martin Luther King Day we thank God congregations of St Mary, Kingskerwell, Evangelist, Withycombe Raleigh. 12. We pray today for Hartland Deanery, for his life and witness to the gospel. As St Bartholomew, Co nswell and the 5. As the new school term begins, please particularly their Rural Dean, Andrew he said ‘To be a Christian without prayer Blessed Virgin Mary in Abbotskerswell. pray for all pupils, students and teachers Richardson, Lay Chair, Anne Irwin, is no more possible than to be alive 23. Refl ect on Psalm 139: 11-12. In these dark, across the Diocese. Secretary, Sylvia West, Treasurer, Paul without breathing.’ Lord help us to pray as winter days consider how you can bring 6. God revealed his Son to the nations Dean, and Chapter Clerk, David Price. if our lives depended on it. light and life into the lives of by the guidance of a star. Today we 13. Pray for the benefi ce of and 20. Please pray for the Yealmside Mission people around you? pray that we, too, may be led into His in Archdeaconry: Community: their clergy Julia French and 24. Pray for the congregation of presence by the light of faith. for the clergy, Andy Barton and Nick Owen Murphy, and the congreagations of , their minister Guy 7. Pray for Barnstaple Deanery, especially Law, reader, Susan Belfi eld, and the St Mary, Brixton, St Werburgh, , Chave-Cox and Reader John Hartfi eld. for their Rural Dean, Giles King-Smith, congregations of St Andrew and Holy and St Bartholomew, . their Lay Chair, Marguerite Shapland, Trinity (Bere Alston). 21. Pray for those involved in supporting our their Secretary, Peter Martin, and their 14. Pray for the life of , church schools as they meet today. Treasurer, Paul Cooper. bringing before God all those who 8. Please hold in prayer Francis Otto, minister and worship there. priest-in-charge of and the 15. Please pray for our Companion Link with congregation of St Helen. the Melanesian Mission remembering 9. Bring to God the Archdeacon of Cyprus especially the Diocese of Banks and the Ven Dr John Holdsworth in our Torres in Melanesia, made up of 13 Companion Diocese of Cyprus and the islands. Pray for their diocesan Bishop Gulf. Pray for his pastoral and prophetic the Rt Revd Alfred Worek. ministry in the . 16. Please pray for the Diocesan 10. Pray for ordinands and readers in training Communications Team. Director Rebecca as they attend the annual South West Paveley, Publications O cer Nicky Davies Ministry Training Course lecture and Digital Media O cer John Moxon. in Plymouth. 17. Bring to God the Bishop’s Diocesan Council as they do work to prepare for Diocesan Synod.