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CHURCH OF PRAYERS CHURCH OF ENGLAND 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 DEVON to sustain them through the rest of the year. Also pray for all involved, leaders and traders in , 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 profi t Community, their clergy Steve Weston, rayers 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 Pst nd th get the support and resources they need to and their readers John White, David Sat 1 , Sun 2 – Sat 8 August address the horrors of modern slavery. Williamson, Alan Steel and Ann Yates and the congregations at St Michael The If you have a visitor book, pray for all those who have come to your church and thank God for all 24. Bring to God the Northmoor Mission those who will visit this summer: That they may experience God in the visit. in three Persons, by Community, their clergy Stephen Cook, Archangel, West Hill, Saint Michael, St John, proclaiming and living our faith in you. 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 1. Please pray for all those in our diocese 6. The Collect for the feast of the Taylor, Kerry Friend, Michael Winter, Andrew the Virgin, & St Edward the who work to promote and uphold our Transfi guration: Father in heaven, whose Bourne, Ingrid Dodd and the congregations Confessor, Wiggaton, St Luke, Newton diverse foreign links. Son Jesus Christ was wonderfully at St Thomas of Canterbury, , Poppleford, St Gregory The Great, Harpford, transfi gured before chosen witnesses upon All Saints & St James, , St Andrew, , St Philp & St James, 2. Please pray for the Wolborough and the holy mountain, and spoke of the exodus St Thomas of Canterbury, , Escot, St John the Baptist, Ogwell Benefi ce, currently in vacancy, he would accomplish at Jerusalem: give us St Petrock, , St James, , & St James & St Anne, Alfi ngton. Readers Keith Butler and Jeremy Howell strength so to hear his voice and bear our St Petroc, , St John the Baptist, 29. In our link with the Roman Catholic and the congregations at St Bartholomew, cross that in the world to come we may see , St German, , Diocese of Bayeaux-Lisieux in France Ogwell, St Mary, Wolborough and St Paul him as he is; who is alive and reigns with St Mary Blessed Virgin, , please pray for pastoral teams, especially in . you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, St Bridget, , St Mary the Virgin, those preparing others to support parishes 3. Please pray for Netherexe Parishes now and for ever. Bratton , St Mary & All Saints, in various ministries: catechesis, tourism, Mission Community, currently in vacancy, and St Mary, . taking funerals. Revd Sue Sheppard and the congregations 7. Pray for the Hartland Deanery, Rural Dean Andrew Richardson, Lay Chair Anne Irwin, 25. Today we pray for Deanery. Their 30. Please pray for the parish of Christ at the Church of Our Lady, , secretary Sylvia West and Treasurer Rural Dean Julian Ould, Lay Chair David Church Ellacombe, their priest-in-charge St Thomas of Canterbury, , Paul Dean. Sta ord and Secretary Susan Jozsa. and pioneer priest Paul Ireton and the St Mary Magdalene, , St Mary the Virgin and St John the Baptist in 8. Please pray for all those leading and 26. Please pray for the O well Mission congregation at Christ Church Ellacombe. Netherexe, St Mary the Virgin, taking part in the Interfaith Ceremony Community, their clergy Peter Walker 31. On this Bank Holiday pray for rest and with , St Cyr & St Julitta, Newton of Remembrance at the Peace Tree on & Reader Katharine Murray and the renewal for all those involved in ministry St Cyres, St Anthony, Cowley, St Michael Southernhay West in Exeter to mark the congregations at St Cuthbert, , in your local area. and All Angels, Cadbury, and St Peter, 70th commemoration of Hiroshima St Mary, O well, St Giles, , Bramford Speke. Memorial Day. St Michael & All Angels, and St Michael, . 4. In our link Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf, please pray for the communications team 27. Pray for the parish of and for good communications in and from with , their clergy Andy the Body of Christ. Barton & Nick Law, Reader Susan Belfi eld and the congregations at 5. Please pray for the Archdeacon of Exeter St Andrew, Bere Ferrers & Holy the Venerable Christopher Futcher and his Trinity , Bere Alston. PA Peter Colebrook.

.:: www.exeter.anglican.org :: twitter.com/cofedevon :: facebook search ::. .:: www.exeter.anglican.org :: twitter.com/cofedevon :: facebook search diocese of exeter ::. Sun 9th – Sat 15th August Sun 16th – Sat 22nd August This week spend time thinking about God’s world. How can everyone fl ourish and God’s creation This week pray for all the young people at Soul Survivor in Somerset: That they may fun and be protected amid problems such as over-consumption and inequality? enjoy worship and learning that brings them into a closer relationship with God. Grapple with these issues in prayer.

9. Pray for Ottery Deanery, their Rural Dean 13. Today, hold in prayer the North Creedy 16. In Melanesia, we pray for the diocese 20. Hold in prayer the North Kenn Team Catherine Edmonds, Lay Chair Shirley (East) Mission Community, currently in of Isabel and for its Bishop, the Rt Revd Mission Community, their clergy Martin Ann-Williams, secretary Jenefer Golding vacancy, their clergy Kingsley Cross and Richard Naramana who retires in October. Wood and the congregations at and treasurer Judy Davis. the congregations at St Mary, 17. Please pray for the North Creedy St Catherine, St Thomas & Pathfi nder: 10. Hold in prayer Penny Hamilton chaplain at Woolfardisworthy East, St Peter, Washford (West) Mission Community, their clergy St John the Evangelist, Whitestone with and Community Pyne, St Mary the Virgin, Stockleigh Lindsey Starrs, Reader Fred Cann Oldridge, St Mary, , Hospitals. Pomeroy, St Mary the Virgin, Stockleigh and congregations at St Peter, Zeal St Mary, , and St John the English, St Thomas A Beckett, Puddington, Baptist, . 11. Please pray for Ven Joyce Kabuba and the Monachorum, St Bartholomew, Nymet St Michael and All Angels, Poughill, St John clergy and people of Ruiru Archdeaconry in Rowland, St Mary, , 21. Pray for your local clergy team and the Baptist, and St Matthew, our link Diocese of Thika. Thomas of Canterbury, , St Mary the for all those who lead worship in your . Virgin, , St Boniface, Knowle, local churches. 12. On International Youth Day pray for young 14. Please pray for and and St Andrew, Colebrooke, St Matthew, people everywhere, that they would have 22. Please pray for the Northam & Appledore the congregations at St Disen, Bradninch , St Petrock, and the things they need to thrive. Mission Community, their clergy Ian Lovett and St John the Baptist, Plymtree. St Bartholomew, Bow. David Carrington & Sandra Juniper, the 15. On this day marking VJ Day pray for all 18. Today hold in prayer the Tiverton and Readers Deborah Bayliss, Glen Yeo, those leading and taking part in events Deanery, their Lay Chair and Nigel Price, Jonathan Ellis & Anne Foster in and elsewhere. Bring before secretary Simon Friend and treasurer Ginny and for the congregations at St Margaret, God all those who served and still serve in Metherell, and their former Rural Dean Bideford, Holy Trinity, Westward Ho and Information included in this prayer diary is the Armed Forces. Remember especially Barry Dugmore as he takes up his new St Mary, Appledore. taken from the diocesan database and was the veterans, prisoners of war and civilian role as Mission Enabler this month, and his accurate at the time of publication. internees as they mark this historic 70th successor (to be announced). If there are any changes please email anniversary commemorating the end of the 19. Pray today for the Coast [email protected] war in the Pacifi c. 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, Barbrook, St John the Evangelist. Countisbury, St John the Baptist, Lynmouth, St Peter, , St , Brendon “And this is the confi dence that we have and St Peter, . before toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.” 1 JOHN 5:14