For our GUC Community:
- We give thanks for those who the many volunteers in our congregation
- We give thanks for those people who are new as part of our life
- We pray for our discernment as a congregation as we seek to elect our Church Council for 2013
- We pray for those amongst us who are struggling in life at this time.
For Presbytery & the wider church: Bega-Tathra Congregation, NSW
Pray for:
- Direction in continuing ministry in PNG
- Preparation of Christmas services
- Safety for many people traveling over Christmas
- End of year activities in schools.
For our World: Comoros, Madagascar, Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles
Pray for:
- An awakening of the churches’ leadership in the political arena, that their eyes and ears be opened to the plights and cries of the people and that their hearts be wise to discern what makes for peace with justice.
- That all believers assume their gift of priesthood and thus carry one another’s burden for the sake of the mission of the church.
- Good governance and leadership with vision.
- Those living along coastal lines, that they may be protected from the devastation of annual typhoons and hurricanes, and those living in arid places that they may be saved from drought and famine.
- Christians in the southern islands to be more eloquent with their deeds than with their words.
- God’s justice to prevail in the political arenas and for good results from elections.
- God’s love to permeate and transform all the work of the churches in the islands.
- Every Christian to gain understanding of and commitment to God’s justice in society.