Praying for Streets
See article in the Parish Blog
We share this comment received through the website about the flyer being distributed to the streets on the prayer diary.
'Dear Parishoner' Flyer
I have lived in Fleet for about 40 years. Yesterday your Dear Parishoner flyer was dropped through our door in Pondtail. I must applaud the initiative and warm feeling shown by this missive. Neither of us are C of E members but we welcomed your letter. J & P
Churches Together Prayer Wall
Churches Together in Fleet Prayer Wall. To read more or sign up, ask in Living Stones, or go to http://www.ctfleet.org.uk and select ‘Prayer Wall’.
Fleet Parish Prayer Programme
Prayer opens up the way for God to work out His plans and grow His kingdom. We therefore invite you to join us as we enter the second year of our exciting Parish Prayer Programme (PPP). The idea behind this programme is to enhance our collective prayer life by asking you to take part in any of the following prayer options that appeal to you. Together we can support and enrich our entire ministry in the parish by underpinning any new initiative with prayer. Additionally, we can support the prayer life of each other by using up-to-date information about prayer needs and by accessing a wide range of prayer styles and methods.
A key objective of the Parish Prayer Programme is to involve as many people as possible in focused prayer aimed at underpinning God’s work in our parish. We are all different in the ways we like to pray, and have varying amounts of time available, so the PPP deliberately offers a varied menu of prayer activities. In this way we hope that everyone will find at least one aspect of the PPP that fits his or her requirements, and may also choose to try out something new. For example, those who like to pray with someone else may be attracted to the Prayer Partner or Prayer Triplet schemes. Others may prefer to use the information in the Prayer Diary to allow their private prayers to be more specific and focused and this is particularly useful for those with very little time to pray each day. The Prayer Diaries fold up to go in your pocket or handbag so you can even make good use of time on the train! If you would rather commit half an hour a week and are interested in a more ecumenical flavour, Churches Together In Fleet runs a Prayer Wall which would be ideal for you. Some people may want to invest more time and be involved to a greater extent by praying for the parish ministry at the weekly Prayer Hub, or through intercessory prayer for one another through the Prayer Telegraph or by attending the Tuesday Morning Prayer Group. Finally, if you prefer to pray in church, Morning Prayer is said four times a week in P&J, and there are regular Taizé Prayer and Celtic Worship services that are prayer based.
We also want to provide additional routes for people to request prayers, for people, initiatives or events, and the Prayer Telegraph is intended to allow rapid dissemination of prayer needs, whether urgent or requiring persistent prayer over a long period. We encourage the inclusion of thanksgiving prayers so we can all rejoice in the answers to our prayers. To this end, the Prayer Boards, at the back of each church, will be extended to become Prayer and Thanksgiving Boards. You can jot down your prayer request or thanksgiving prayer and pin it to the board. These prayers will then be circulated via the Prayer Telegraph and also prayed, as before, by the Tuesday Morning Prayer Group. No request is too small – we want to share in bringing the needs of our church and our membership to God.
Finally, I hope that you will understand our enthusiasm if I finish with a summary of the objectives of the PPP initiative, which are as follows:
To underpin in prayer:
o the establishment of a shared vision
o the decisions that we make
o every event that we organise
o our mission to those outside the church
To support in prayer:
o our ministry team
o one another
o new Christians
To provide support for the prayer lives of our congregations:
o through learning experiences (courses, literature etc)
o by providing information on prayer needs
To develop, grow and evolve:
o more ‘specific’ prayer lives
o deeper prayer experiences
o our relationship with God.
Robert Smith
Chairman of the Parish Prayer Programme Working Group
For more details on the prayer activities see the Prayer Program page
You can send prayer requests for the Prayer Program from our prayer request web page
All the articles and sermons on the Parish prayer program can be read on the parish blog