Our prayer focus for the week beginning 8th May 2022:
Tetbury Praying the Town: Cherry Orchard Road & Hodges Close
• The Parish of Shipton Moyne
• For all visitors to our churches – may they feel God’s presence and love
• Deanery Synod Representatives
• The Departed and those who mourn their loss including: John Saynor, and Michael Auden. We give thanks for their lives, and pray for God’s comfort for their family and friends.
• Year’s Mind: Diran Hoonaarian (07/05), Yvonne Lowe (13/5). (“Year’s Mind” is to mark the first anniversary of a death –often a difficult time for family and friends).
• Praying for Arthur and Molly Cleaver who are having a service of blessing and thanksgiving in St Marys’ Tetbury on Sunday afternoon.
• Praying for St Mary’s School: Reception Cherry Class with Mrs Boswell and Mrs Bell
• National issues: Our national government – for wisdom, integrity and unity as it faces the huge challenges of rising prices, climate change, poverty, the war in Ukraine, health issues etc.
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.
The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. Those who know your name trust in you, for you, O Lord, have never abandoned those who search for you. Ps.9.9-10