Prayer Diary

September 2020 Sunday 30 AUGUST Trinity 12

Effectively resourcing ministry Please pray for all those who Following the open conversations held around the Diocese at the start of the year, minister across our diocese. in September we are offering a series of further opportunities to engage with the That they may feel supported process as we look at how we can effectively resource a healthy and sustainable and sustained in their faith, Church into the future. able to help more people Foreword from Martin It will be a chance to hear more about the strategy for mission and ministry know the love of God. What a strange year this has been! As 2020 across the Diocese and think about how it might impact on your own church. began no one could have predicted that the Only by working together can we ensure that God’s Kingdom continues to grow in Covid-19 Coronavirus would sweep across Worcestershire and Dudley. Bromsgrove Deanery our world with such devastating effect. At Do not worry about anything, These meetings will be held Rural Dean: Paul Lawlor online using Zoom, but will a local, national and international level all but in everything by prayer and York: Archbishop , follow a similar format to the our lives have been affected. We may have supplication with thanksgiving let with Paul Ferguson (Whitby), previous open conversations, been very ill ourselves, or lost loved ones your requests be made known to John Thomson (Selby), with opportunities for people to or neighbours. As a diocese we are facing God. And the peace of God, which (Hull) and (Beverley) contribute in small groups. unprecedented financial challenges, as surpasses all understanding, will Turku (Finland): To find out more about the Archbishop Tapio Luoma, are so many businesses large and small. guard your hearts and your minds dates and times, or to book a with Bishop Kaarlo Kalliala Everyone, in different ways is facing new in Christ Jesus. place, please visit our website. South Kerala (India): levels of uncertainty and insecurity with people in our poorer areas Philippians 4.6-7 Bishop Dharmaraj Rasalam and amongst our Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities often the worst hit of all. Mon 31 Bromsgrove Deanery At times like this we need to pray. Jesus said, ‘How blessed are Kimberley & Kuruman (South M Africa): Bishop Oswald Swartz those who know their need of God, for theirs is the Kingdom of Please pray for us as we come to terms with the sudden death of David Hargreaves, our Lay Chair and loyal servant of Christ and His Church. We pray for the Holy Spirit Kindu (Congo): Heaven.’ In praying for others and for ourselves we bring our Bishop Zacharie Masimango Katanda to guide us as we look to the future. Rural Dean: Paul Lawlor. emptiness to God for him to fill with his love and promise. We bring Kinkiizi (Uganda): our despair to God for him to fill with his boundless stores of hope. Tue 1 September Bromsgrove Team Ministry Bishop Dan Zoreka We bring our grief to God that all may know the peace that comes Please pray for a continued safe return to worship at All Saints’ church and to all the Ondo (Nigeria): T from God alone. In lockdown I needed a routine of daily prayer activities that take place in our community hall. Also that we might have a clearer Bishop Stephen Oni at home to bring me through, and millions of people in England vision for outreach and growth. Clergy: David Ford; Reader: Rosemary Sumner Calabar (Nigeria): began to connect with God through private or family prayer and Bishop Tunde Adeleye through worship online or by phone in their homes. How can that Wed 2 Diocese of Peru Kinshasa (Congo): Bishop Achille Mutshindu connection continue? As one small part of the answer this prayer Lockdown has meant that the Anglican Church of Peru has very little income and diary gives some structure to our prayers at home, and joins us clergy are not being paid. Pray for the clergy and their families as they struggle to Ontario (Canada): W together as one family in this Diocese of Worcester. I commend it survive without their stipend, and for Bishop Jorge as he tries to support them and Bishop Michael Oulton to your use. guide the Anglican Church through these difficult times. Calcutta (India): Bishop Probal Kanto Dutta Thur 3 Bromsgrove Team Ministry Ogbomoso (Nigeria): Th Pray for St John the Baptist w St Andrew Charford. For the safe restart of our Bishop Titus Babtunde Olayinka community hall and worship in church. We especially pray for renewed vision and Caledonia (Canada): At the moment we will continue to produce the prayer diary purpose in the coming months. Clergy: Ray Khan, Janet Hatton, David Lingwood; Bishop David TJ Lehmann monthly in electronic format. In this diary we’re praying for Reader: Hilda Roxborough Calgary (Canada): the Deanery of Malvern. We try to pray for those with a licence Bishop Gregory Kerr-Wilson Fri 4 Bromsgrove Team Ministry from the Bishop by name, but please do remember all Oregon (USA): F We give thanks for the members of the congregation of Christ Church, Catshill who minister and witness with them in each parish. Bishop Michael Hanley who have been ensuring our older people are safe, well and have all they need, California (USA): and for being so patient as we wait for a return to normality. Clergy: Bev Robertson; Bishop Marc Andrus Reader: Geoffrey Westwood Orlu (Nigeria): S Sat 5 Bromsgrove Team Ministry Bishop Bennett Okoro Cameroon (West Africa): Bishop Please pray for a continued safe return to worship in church at St Godwald in Dibo Thomas-Babyngton Elango On Sundays we are offering a monthly prayer for you to pray for your baptism families and we also Finstall and to all the activities that take place in our community hall. Please also Kirinyaga (Kenya): continue to pray for dioceses around the world through the Poorvoo prayer calendar (Sundays) and pray for vision for our ministry amongst children and young families. Clergy: David Bishop Joseph Kibichwa the Anglican Cycle of Prayer. These are all placed in a column, on the side edge of each page. Ford; Reader: Janet Hewe Trinity 13 Sunday 6 SEPTEMBER Sunday 13 SEPTEMBER Trinity 14

Lord, We give thanks for your Today marks the first Sunday in the Readers’ Licensing annual season of Creationtide. This wonderful creation and pray that On 19 September, five people will be admitted to the office of Reader in a special year, as part of a new initiative to you grant us wisdom and energy to service. combat climate change, A Rocha be better stewards of our world. Readers are also known as Licensed Lay Ministers (LLMs) and are authorised in UK are encouraging Christian Please pray for our new Readers churches of all denominations particular to exercise a ministry of preaching and teaching. They undergo a two-year as they begin a new chapter in Bromsgrove Deanery to take action before a national Climate Sunday event on 5 September 2021. training course, which ends with the award of a Certificate in Higher Education. their ministerial journeys. Rural Dean: Paul Lawlor Churches are invited to do one or more of the following three things: After being licensed they carry out a wide range of tasks within their parishes and beyond, especially helping others to reflect on their faith and how it relates to their Praying for our Baptism families • Hold a Climate-focused service, thinking about and praying for creation care. - Loving Father, thank you for the daily lives. This year’s new lay ministers are: Bromsgrove Deanery • Make a commitment as a church community to take long-term action in reducing parents of children waiting to be • Sue Hiscocks who will serve at St John’s Charlton in the benefice of Fladbury, Rural Dean: Paul Lawlor greenhouse gas emissions. baptised. Help them to know your Wyre Piddle, Hill & Moor, Cropthorne and Charlton presence in their lives and to share • Call for the UK government to be bold and courageous in leading the UK’s • Alison Lewis who will serve at St Leonard’s, Clent in the benefice of Holy Cross North that love and care with their families response to climate change. The Anglican Church of South America: and those they meet. Amen. • Charles Morgan who will serve at St John the Baptist, Halesowen in the Halas Team The , Nicholas Holtam, said: “Climate Sunday will be a brilliant Archbishop Gregory Venables • Carol Morris who will serve at St George’s in the Kidderminster East team Salisbury: Bishop Nicholas Holtam, resource to help parishes understand and respond to the climate Bath and Wells: with Bishops (Ramsbury) crisis. As we work out how to cut our carbon emissions every year to reach net • Sally Spencer who will also serve at St John the Baptist, Halesowen in the Halas Bishop Peter Hancock, & (Sherborne) zero emissions by 2030, Climate Sunday will motivate, encourage and inspire our Team with Bishop (Taunton) Cape Town (Southern Africa): churches to keep going on this journey.” At the same time, Yukiko Johnson, who will be licensed in the Diocese of London Tuam, Killala and Achonry (Ireland): Archbishop Thabo Makgoba where she works with a Japanese congregation, will be welcomed with Permission Bishop Patrick Rooke St Asaph (Wales): Find out more and register on their website: www.climatesunday.org Bishop Gregory Cameron to Officiate in our diocese. Ribe (Denmark): Bishop Elof Westergaard Mon 7 Holy Trinity Dodford & St Mary Mon 14 Christ the King Team Ministry Otukpo (Nigeria): M Bishop David Bello Please pray for unity for all at Dodford Church as we consider the planned changes At St Matthias & St George, Astwood Bank, please pray for the Recovery Group Central Busoga (Uganda): M Oru (Nigeria): which will be made to our worship and services. Clergy: Bev Robertson; Reader: that has been set up to look at mission and ministry as we emerge from lockdown Bishop Patrick Wakula Bishop Geoffrey Chukwunenye Sally Burdett and the effects of pandemic; that we may discern the leading of the Holy Spirit as Kisangani (Congo): Canberra & Goulburn (Australia): we plan for the future. Clergy: Glenn Reading, Victoria Barlow; Reader: Roger Ling Bishop Lambert Funga Botolome Bishop Mark Short Tue 8 Redditch Town Centre Ecumenical Covenant Tue 15 Christ the King Team Ministry Owerri (Nigeria): T T Canterbury: With Redditch Baptist Church without a minister and with new leaders starting at Bishop Chukwuma Oparah Archbishop with our Methodist / URC LEP (Emmanuel) and the Redditch Salvation Army; we pray for At The Bridge, Headless Cross, please pray that we may discern the leading of Central Ecuador (USA): Bishop Rose Hudson-Wilkin (Dover) good relationships to continue and form. the Holy Spirit in our plans for the future as we set up a group to look at mission Bishop Victor Scantlebury Osaka (Japan): and ministry as we begin to emerge from the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic. Kita Kanto (Japan): Bishop Bishop Andrew Haruhisa Iso Wed 9 Diocese of Morogoro Clergy: Glenn Reading, Victoria Barlow; Reader: Roger Ling Zerubbabel Katsuichi Hirota With additional pressure placed on members of the medical profession due to W Osun (Nigeria): Wed 16 The Protestant Church of Central Germany Owo (Nigeria): W Bishop James Afolabi Popoola Covid-19, we continue to pray for the work of Berega Hospital and its satellite Bishop Stephen Ayodeji Fagbemi Cape Coast (West Africa): health clinic in the village of Tunguli. May God bless the efforts of the doctors and Pray for our bishop, Friedrich Kramer, who is touring our vast church to celebrate Central Florida (USA): Bishop Victor Atta-Baffoe nurses who continue to care despite a lack of resources and staff and pray for the evening prayer with a different congregation every week. God bless his work and the Bishop Gregory Brewer Director, Isaac Mgego. people he meets who let their prayers rise to heaven from the most remote churches. Th Carlisle: Oxford: Bishop with Th Bishop James Newcome Thur 10 Ipsley Team Ministry Thur 17 Christ the King Team Ministry Bishops (Dorchester), with Bishop Emma Ineson (Penrith) (Buckingham) & Osun North (Nigeria): At St Peter’s Church, we thank God for the regular online services during lockdown Please pray for the people of St. Peter, Crabbs Cross as they look to a new future (Reading) Bishop Abiodun T Olaoye and pray for safety as we gradually open the church for private prayer, services after Fr Mike’s retirement serving the parish for 30 years. Also prayers for Fr Mike Central Gulf Coast (USA): Cape Town (South Africa): and occasional offices. Clergy: Garth Nathaniel; Readers: Peter McLaren, David and his family as they start a new chapter of their lives in retirement. Clergy: Vacant Bishop Russell Kendrick Bishop Thabo Makgoba Hargreaves, Christine McLaren, Catherine McLaren, Linda Nicholas, Chris Tilley Central Melanesia (Melanesia): Fri 18 Holy Trinity Team Ministry Bishop Leonard Dawea F Cashel & Ossory (Ireland): Fri 11 Ipsley Team Ministry At St Leonard, Beoley, please pray for our ongoing work with schools and young Bishop Michael Burrows Oyo (Nigeria): Bishop Williams F Osun North East (Nigeria): We pray for guidance in how to support the church family at St John the Evangelist, people; that we find new and relevant ways of reaching out in a new academic year; Oluwarotimi Aladekugbe Bishop Ebenezer Akorede Okuyelu Greenlands and our local community and vision as we seek new ways to that we adapt our mission and ministry in a new season of church life to engage Central New York (USA): connect with those around us in these ever changing times. Clergy: Paul Lawlor; with existing and new members alike. Clergy: Francis Moloney, Paul Irving. Readers: Bishop DeDe Duncan-Probe S Ottawa (Canada): Vacant Readers: Rosemary Humphrey, Maureen Hughes, Vicki Quarton Norma Walters, Margaret Lloyd, Enid Mullis. Central Buganda (Uganda): Pacong (South Sudan): S Bishop Michael Lubowa Sat 12 Ipsley Team Ministry Sat 19 Holy Trinity Team Ministry Bishop Joseph Maker Atot Central Newfoundland (Canada): Pray for Christ Church, Matchborough and give thanks for outreach into our At St Bartholomew, Tardebigge, please pray that the Lord would bless our relationship Bishop John Watton community in these unusual times. Pray for the appointment of a new Community with all associated with Tardebigge CE First School; build our ministry to young Kitale (Kenya): Missioner. Clergy: Ian Evans; Readers: Phil Williams, Marilyn Bishop families, and grow our churches spiritually and numerically. Clergy: Richard Clark. Bishop Stephen Kewasis Trinity 15 Sunday 20 SEPTEMBER

Please pray that this conference Clergy Conference provides refreshment and a Clergy from around the Diocese will gather time of relaxation for our clergy. together online to explore the theme of Please also pray that they are ‘Water in the Wilderness’ for this year’s renewed by God’s blessing conference over 29 and 30 September. during this time. Together, our clergy will take time to pray and reflect helped by several speakers from outside the Diocese. David Runcorn, a Bromsgrove Deanery well-known writer and teacher, will provide Rural Dean: Paul Lawlor biblical reflections on ‘Losing and Finding’. Bishop Emma Ineson of Penrith will consider what Trinity-shaped ministry looks like, whilst Mark Oakley, a who Episcopal Church of South Sudan: writes profoundly about poetry, will draw on a treasury of verse to enrich everyone’s Archbishop Justin Badi Arama thinking. Sheffield: Bishop Pete Wilcox, In between the online sessions, there will be plenty of space for conversation, with Bishop-designate Sophie Jelley silence, walking, relaxing and gathering in small socially-distanced groups, where (Doncaster) possible. For many people, lockdown has proved long, difficult and tiring, feeling Sodor and Man: Bishop Peter Eagles very much like a wilderness. Greenland (Denmark): Bishop Sofie Petersen Mon 21 Holy Trinity Team Ministry M Kiteto (Tanzania): At St Stephen, Redditch, we pray that God will help us show his love to the wider Bishop Isaiah Chambala Redditch community as we seek to open our doors for prayer, worship and in loving Kitgum (Uganda): Bishop Wilson service. Clergy: Paul Lawlor. Kitara Kitui (Kenya): Tue 22 Holy Trinity Team Ministry Bishop Josephat Mule At St Philip, Webheath, please pray for our relationship with our Primary School; T Panama (Central America): that we can successfully relate to our growing local community. Please also pray for Bishop Julio Murray Thompson funding to complete the church annex. Clergy: Richard Clark Central Pennsylvania (USA): Bishop Audrey Scanlan Wed 23 Economy and Daily Life Kivu (Rwanda): Bishop Augustin Ahimana Pray for the ministry of workplace chaplaincy through the Ecumenical Partnerships, the Black County Urban Industrial Mission (BCUIM) and Faith at Work in W Pankshin (Nigeria): Worcestershire (FWW). Pray for staff, volunteers, trustees and those they minister Bishop Olumuyiwa Ajayi to at a time of great need in the economic life of our communities. Central Philippines (Philippines): Bishop Dixie Copanut Taclobao Thur 24 St Laurence, Alvechurch Th Panyana (South Sudan): Please pray for our growing as disciples, as we seek to come through the pandemic Bishop Seme Nigo Abinda with wisdom and patience. Please pray for all those involved in our mission and Central Solomons (Melanesia): ministry, especially our weekly online services. Clergy: Richard Bubbers; Readers: Bishop Ben Seka Sue Phillips Wardle, Helen Ayling Central Tanganyika (Tanzania): Bishop Dickson Chilongani Fri 25 Retired clergy in Bromsgrove Deanery If you have a story to feature on a Sunday in a future diary, please do F Central Zambia (Central Africa): We give thanks for the prayerful presence of retired clergy in the Deanery, especially get in touch! Large print copies of the diary are always available – email Sam Bishop Derek Gary Kamukwamba in recent months, and ask for God to bless them in this ‘ministry from home’. Setchell, Communications Officer [email protected] , or contact the Diocesan Office reception on01905 20537 S Sat 26 Princess of Wales Community Hospital, Bromsgrove Paraguay (South America): if you or someone you know would like one. Bishop Peter John Henry Bartlett Please pray for our in-patients, outpatients and all who rely on our services. For all Central Zimbabwe (Central Africa): nursing teams led by Matron Phil Shakeshaft, doctors, consultants, support staff, Bishop Ignatius Makumbe Kobe (Japan): volunteers and fundraisers. Praying also for the Healthcare chaplaincy team led by Bishop Augustine Naoaki Kobayashi Andy Green. Design: IndigoMoonDesign