Reading this week's prayers are Revd Tim Ling (L in picture) and Revd Mike Duff. Just before Christmas, Mike and Tim were licensed as Team Rector and Team Vicar of the Upper Wylye Valley Team - a group of 10 rural churches near Warminster.
Read this month's prayers here.
Monday 6 April: Marnhull, Blackmore Vale Deanery
O Lord,
We pray today for your abundant blessing on the community of Marnhull, that it may be guided by your word. We raise to you the Revd Gaenor Hockey and her ministry.
We pray for all who learn and teach at Marnhull St Gregory’s Primary School.
Amen
Tuesday 7 April: Okeford, Blackmore Vale Deanery
Loving God,
We pray for the communities of Okeford, asking for your blessing upon them, particularly on the Revd Andrew Gubbins.
We pray for all who help to put on services in this place. May all students, staff and teachers from Shillingstone Primary School and Child Okeford St Nicholas Primary School be blessed with your Holy Spirit.
Amen
Wednesday 8 April: Spire Hill, Blackmore Vale Deanery
Eternal God,
We pray for the communities of Spire Hill, for all who work, play and pray there. We pray for the clergy, Richard Hancock and Belinda West, and for all lay ministers and leaders who serve you in this place.
We pray for the staff, students and parents at Stalbridge Primary School.
In our prayers for our link diocese, we pray for the Most Revd Moses Deng Bol, Archbishop of Northern Bahr el Ghazal and Bishop of Wau in South Sudan.
Amen
Thursday 9 April: Stour Vale, Blackmore Vale Deanery
God of all blessings,
We hold before you the community of Stour Vale. We pray for the Revd Clare Manson Dean and that all who live there are guided by your word and know your peace upon them.
Amen
Friday 10 April: Sturminster Newton, Hinton St Mary and Lydlinch, Blackmore Vale Deanery
Loving God,
We pray for your abundant blessing on the communities of Sturminster Newton, Hinton St Mary and Lydlinch, that you will guide and bless all who worship and live there, including the Revd Mary Gubbins.
Amen
Saturday 11 April: Shaftesbury, Blackmore Vale Deanery
Living Lord,
We pray for the town of Shaftesbury, that your Holy Spirit will move in this place and bless the clergy, Donna Gibbs and Helen Williams.
We raise to you all who attend:
Shaftesbury Primary School
Motcombe Primary School
The Abbey Primary School
Shaftesbury School
Amen
Sunday 12 April: Second Sunday of Easter
Gillingham, Milton on Stour and Silton, Blackmore Vale Deanery
O Lord,
We ask for your blessing upon Gillingham, Milton on Stour and Silton, the ministry of the clergy, Becca McDonnell and Tim Heaton, and all those who worship there.
We raise to you: Milton-on-Stour Primary School and Gillingham St Mary the Virgin School.
In the Anglican cycle of prayer, we pray for Igreja Anglicana de Mocambique e Angola.
Amen