Reading this week's prayers is Sarah Musgrave. Sarah is a psychotherapist and an LLM in the Marlborough Team. She has various roles within the Diocese – Discernment, Wellbeing, Bishop’s Visitor, canon, chairing a link with +Data of South Sudan, Lay Chair of Marlborough Deanery and therapist to clergy and laity.
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8 Jan
Lord,
We pray for HMP/YOI Portland - for all staff, volunteers and inmates. We pray that they may work together to find ways to make stays more bearable, and to work towards improving education and rehabilitation to improve lives as people come to the end of their prison terms.
Amen
9 Jan
Creator God,
Today we pray for Sherborne Deanery and its Rural Dean: Tony Gilbert and Assistant Rural Dean: Tim Greenslade and Lay Chair: Andrew Graham. We pray for all within the deanery, and for all that they do to serve you and Make Jesus Known.
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10 Jan
Lord God
In our prayers to you we lift before you Melbury, and itsits Clergy: Tim Greenslade, Daniel Ingles, Linda Wilcock. and licensed Lay Ministers: Paul Rendell, Janet Danks. We pray we can all “Make Jesus known” so that people in our villages get to see and know who Jesus Christ is. We pray for your wisdom to explore how to structure the team for the future in a way that is sustainable with decreasing resources.
Thank you for the staff and pupils of Maiden Newton Greenford CE VC Primary School Evershot Sticklands CE VA Primary School In our prayers for Episcopal Churches in South Sudan and Sudan: we pray for the Rt Revd Samuel Lomude Eluzai, Bishop of Mundu in South Sudan.
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11 Jan
Our Lord and Our God
Thank you for Queen Thorne, and its Clergy: David Bond. We pray for your blessing upon all those who live and work in the deanery. We pray for our brothers and sisters in Ezo, South Sudan and the strengthening of links between Trent Youngs Primary and Masumbu Primary Schools. We lift before you the staff and pupils of Trent Young's CE VA Primary School
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12 Jan
Lord Jesus
In our prayers today we raise to you the communities of Sherborne with Castleton, Lillington and Longburton, and Clergy: Martin Lee. We pray your blessing on the staff and pupils of Sherborne The Abbey CE VC Primary School and The Gryphon School
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13 Jan
Lord Jesus,
We raise to you in prayer today the Three Valleys, Sherborne Deanery and its Clergy: Anthony Gilbert. We ask for your blessing upon the students and staff of: Yetminster St Andrew's CE VC Primary School Bishop's Caundle All Saints CE VC Primary School Bradford Abbas St Mary's CE VC Primary School Thornford CE VA Primary School. We pray that all in these schools may come to know you and may flourish and grow
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14 Jan
Today we pray for Blackmore Vale Deanery and its Rural Dean: Tim Heaton and Lay Chair: Pauline Batstone. On this second Sunday of Epiphany, as we hear the call of our Lord to Philip and Nathanael, "Follow me," we pray that people throughout the Blackmore Vale may hear the same call and be drawn to service in Christ's name. In our Anglican Cycle of Prayer: we pray for Church of the Province of South East Asia
Amen