For our GUC Community:

• Our congregation at the beginning of 2012.
• Our Children’s Ministry Leaders and groups, including the Billabong youth, Boy’s Brigade, and Oasis. We pray for support and encouragement, leaders and mentors.
• Our Church Council as it begins a new year
• Our Minister Mark and his family

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For our GUC Community:

• We pray for Jenny and Ashley Best as they find themselves in the midst of John’s death.
• We pray for other people we know who this Christmas share with family in friends in the midst of grief.
• We pray for those children we provided gifts for as part of Angel Tree, for Agape Home in Thailand, for sponsor children members of the congregation have and for those people who whom our Christmas donations go.
• We pray for each other over this time of rest, travel and new year.
• We pray for our Christmas worship, the community who will attend, and for our worship leaders over January.
• We give thanks for the year we have had as a Christian community and pray for the year ahead.
• We are mindful of the wider church at this time, made up of different denominations, people and traditions, in different countries, languages, and colours.
• We pray for those church’s we have been a part of or visited throughout our lives.
• We pray for message of the Christian Church in a diverse and changing world.
• We give thanks for the gospel, the good news, of Christ, for all people.

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For our GUC Community:

• We pray for Maggie Nangolo who as returned to Namibia to see family and friends. We pray that it would be a time of renewal and we look forward to her return in February.
• We pray for our English Conversation Group and for those who are part of our church life from other countries around the world.
• We pray for our families at this busy and demanding time of year, that in the midst of the rush we would not lose the wonder of Christ’s birth.
• We pray for our congregation in this time of Advent and as we prepare for Christmas.

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For our GUC Community:

• We pray for those who live with mental illness
• We pray for those who live with sorrow in different ways
• We pray for our Spring Getaway next weekend and for Pam and the congregation who will worship at GUC
• We pray for the McCrorie family as they prepare to leave for Darwin.
• We give thanks for simple moments of joy and peace.

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For our GUC Community:

• We pray for those amongst us whose children are unwell and struggling in life at this time.
• We pray for those amongst us who are new.
• We pray for those elected to Church Council for 2012.
• We give thanks for our Spring Getaway in the coming weeks.

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