Prayer pointers was last updated in time for Sunday 14th September
This page offers prayer suggestions for personal use and for intercessions relating to the Benefice in our Sunday services. Don't feel obliged to use all of it!
Please pass on prayer requests to Stephen, via email. Please do not request prayers for the health or wellbeing of named individuals in this public space.
Benefice activities in the week just gone
We give thanks for:
- the meeting between representatives of Bampton and Askham parishes and for the grace and love each has shown the other as they prepare for merger. We are thankful for the generosity of individuals and PCCs in offering support and collaboration, and for the spirit of hope in which we are planning our future.
- the Benefice Bible Study group, which drew support from several parishes and brought us together as a Benefice.
The week to come
We pray for Shap PCC as it meets this week and for Bampton and Askham PCCs as they prepare to meet together for the first time.
We pray for the ministry of all our churches as the busy time of Harvest, Remembrance, Advent and Christmas approaches.
We pray for Deanery Chapter, for all its ministers, and for the Deanery Retreat which will be held in our Benefice on 7th and 8th October.
Good Neighbours
We pray for Debbie, our new Good Neighbour project coordinator, and for Sue, as they prepare to take the project live. We give thanks for the time we have spent together designing materials, planning our safeguarding systems, and getting IT systems to work as we need them to. We give particular thanks for our first volunteers signed up.
Growing Younger
We are especially thankful this week for the great success, and many new faces, at our youth groups - particularly our new Youth Cafe Church in Shap on Tuesdays. We give thanks for the delight with which our programme of activities has been received by our young people, especially our planned Weekend Away in November, and for our volunteers and the activities they plan to deliver in the coming term.
We give thanks for JAM in Crosby Ravensworth; Collective Worship in Morland and Shap; governing bodies meeting in Shap and Bolton; and lunch club in Morland.
About prayer pointers ThePrayer pointers page was a suggestion made at one of our Saturday morning training sessions on 15th February 2025. Talking about leading interecessions, we identified the importance of praying, as a benefice, for all the different needs and activities of our communities, churches, PCCs and congregations. In order to do this effectively, we need to know what each other are doing.