
Prayer focus for the week beginning 25th June 2023:
• Tetbury Praying the Town: Church Street & Market Place
• The Parish of Long Newnton
• The Departed and those who mourn their loss especially Yvonne Amor, Pat Boulton (Funeral at Cheltenham Crematorium on Wednesday 4th July at 1pm), Eliza Dear (Funeral in St John The Baptist, Shipton Moyne on Friday 14th July at 4pm), and David Lowsley Williams (Memorial service in Tetbury on Thursday 27th July at 2pm). We give thanks for their lives and pray for God’s comfort for their family and friends.
• Year’s Mind: David Evans (25/06). (“Year’s Mind” is to mark the first anniversary of a death –often a difficult time for family and friends).
• Praying for Isabella Fenton being baptised in Holy Trinity Long Newnton on Sunday 25th June and her parents and Godparents
• Praying for St Mary’s School: Year 3 Willow Class with Mr Hainsworth and Mrs Begum
• Local issues: for the Benefice Eucharist on 25th June, followed by lunch in the vicarage garden – may it be a time of fellowship (and fine weather!) Also the church fete on Saturday 1st July
• National issues: for those preparing to lead Christian holidays and camps – may they be well equipped and supported in this valuable work
• World issues: June 20th-26th is Refugee Week. May compassion be shown particularly to those fleeing violence, famine, repression and all forms of injustice.
And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith. Matt.21:22
Are you, or someone you know, in need of prayer? You are welcome to hang your prayer request on the prayer tree in the prayer corner at the front of St Marys’ church