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Seasonal Prayers – Lent & Easter

Seasonal Prayers are designed to provide prayer ideas for specific times of the year.  Prayers for Lent and Easter are now available. Check it out here

Materials inlcude a wide range of prayers and reflections including:

Mothering Sunday – Praying with Pretzels – Wilderness God – Lenten Reflections – Lent & Easter Prayer Stations – Lent & Easter

Meals – Holy Week Prayers – Worst Week – Easter Day – Resurrection sketch – A friend who walks our way

Praying our days

The Prayer Year booklet, written by the prayer group, has been mailed out to all churches. There has been such enthusiasm for the booklet that many new churches have signed up to Vision4Life. We still have supplies which you can order from Church House. However you can also download a pdf of the booklet by clicking the image to the right. If you have spare booklets that you have not used, please take them to your March Synod meetings and offer them to other churches who are short of copies.

Building our relationship with Christ

In partnership with Vision4Life, the Nationwide Christian Trust have produced a booklet on the subject of prayer. It covers biblical teaching on prayer and includes a number of studies on the theme. All Churches who signed up to Vision4Life before November received a free copy. Further copies are available for purchase through the NCT website by clicking here or the logo below.

Prayer toolkit

The toolkit includes resources and ideas to encourage you in your prayer life and offers suggestions to help you in personal, group or church prayer. There are new items in the toolkit and it is being regularly added to.

Current items include:

Bible Studies for Prayer Year – Praying with the Bible – Daily prayer – Listening prayer – Telephones, texts and emails – Bread making prayer – Setting up a prayer station – Examen prayer – Lord’s prayer – Mourning prayer – Prayer Garden – Prayer Crafts – Praying hands – Prayer and art – Prayer scrapbooking – Prayer and climate change

Other resources

Some resources already used by other people have been submitted. Initially these include

• The Occupational Prayer Cycle of the South Yorkshire Workplace Chaplaincy
• Prayer – the walk of encounter, submitted by Dunamis & GEAR
• Gateways into prayer

Lets make it easier

We felt it was right to give ourselves dates by which the core seasonal material should be up on the web. This is to help you with planning, the deadlines are;  April 2010 Ascension and Pentecost; May 2010 for Summer ; July 2010 for Harvest.