No. 82                                          October 2019

This month our special focus is on St John the Baptist Church Crowthorne

 Please pray for:

• Vicar:  Rev’d Dr. Lisa Cornwell
• Associate Priest:  Rev’d David Ramsbottom
• LLMs:             Gillian Gyenes, Hazel Berry, Julia Norton, Dr Lewis Simmons
• Church Wardens:   Leslie Richardson, Leigh Welham
• PCC Secretary:        Mary Harwood
• Treasurer:                  Rebecca Al-Jadir
• Assistant Treasurer: Julie Sharpe
• Choir Director:       Katherine Bond Smith

In the Parish please pray for:

• Our clergy and all those who lead services and preach, intercessors and those who read the lessons
• Carol Frost in her training as an LLM.
• Our PCC
• The Choir and the visiting organists who play for our services
• The Net (our Sunday School): for the teachers, children and parent helpers.
• Pathfinders, the leaders and the young people attending
• Minus 5s, those who lead, singing, pray and tell stories to the children and their parents.
• More leaders for all the children and young people’s work
• The Church yard team and those who will cut and strim the hedges ready for winter.
• Our continuing Christian Spirituality Course, October 7the Formed Spirituality/ John Calvin, October 14 The Spirituality of Compassion/ Jean Vanier, Oct 21 Spirituality of Cynthia Bourgeault/ Centering Prayer
• Our annual ‘Tea and Favourite Hymns’ on 20 October
• The All Souls and All Saints services
• Our Mindfulness Quiet Day in November lead by Tim Stead.
• All the groups who use our hall during the week

In the Deanery please pray for:

• St George’s Church in Owlsmoor, someone to please come forward to become Treasurer
• The Church Urban Fund event at the Exeter Hall in Kidlington, on October 7^th when there will be an afternoon of discussion around church growth, discipleship and social action, to which all will be welcome.
• All the many new communities in our Deanery
• All young people going away to University and College.
• All the work done by C.R.O.W. – ‘Crowthorne reduce our waste’

Hazel Berry: sonningdeaneryprojects@googlemail.com

SONNING   DEANERY   PRAYER   CYCLE
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No. 81                                                         September 2019

This month our special focus is on St Paul’s Wokingham, St Nicholas Embrook and Woosehill

 Please pray for:

Rector & Area Dean:  Rev’d Richard Lamey
Team Vicar:                      Rev’d Patrick Mukholi,
Assistant Priest:            Rev’d Judi Hattaway
Associate Priest:           Rev’d Jane Kraft
Church Wardens:         David Ruddock and Peter Wells
PCC Secretary:              Lesley Ruddock
Treasurer:                         Lyn Austen
Office Administrator:Louise Cole
Director of Music:       Louise Turner

The Community Church St Nicholas Emmbrook

Pro Wardens:               Liz Gallagher and Fiona Albinson
Secretary:                       Anne Armitage
Treasurer:                      Tony Roberts
Parish Pioneer:            Paul Armitage

Woosehill Community Church

Methodist Minister: Rev’d Catherine Bowstead
Methodist Preacher: Doreen Murgatroyd

In the Parishes please pray for:

• That the insights we learnt through the PMC process about each other and about our mission to the community will become the essence of our identity, enabling us to see God at work all around us
• Our new pastoral care groups at St Paul’s (called Tithings) will become a valued way of offering each other support and encouragement on the road as disciples
• For new leaders and volunteers to respond to God’s call on their lives
• For each Church to continue to look as if we believe what we sing, enjoy what we do and can’t imagine being anywhere else on a Sunday morning and during the week. That we are in the place God calls us to be and the places He sends us into in his name and in his Spirit.

In the Deanery please pray for:

• St Eligius Church, Alpha Course starting on September 24^th
• St John the Baptist Crowthorne, Christian Spirituality Course: Mondays Sept: 9,16, 23,30 Oct: 7,14,21.
• All young people starting new school, colleges, employment
• All our Churches as activities start up again after the break and that we all return refreshed and re-invigorated..

Hazel Berry: sonningdeaneryprojects@googlemail.com