Inviting you to think about our own church community, the wider church, the world!

• We pray for our Play Group, coordinator Cassandra, our Grandparents who help and for all who find this group a welcoming part of their week and family life.
• We pray for Emergency Services Chaplaincy. For Chaplain Phil Anderson and also for paramedics, firefighters, people in management roles and volunteers.
• This week we pray for France and Germany. For revitalization of the church amid increasing secularism and atheism.

Inviting you to think about our own church community, the wider church, the world!

• We pray for Church Council as it meets this week for the first time this year. Pray for each person on our Church Council and for our Minister. Chris Dodd, Heather Lamb, Randy Albrecht, Wanda Beeby, Margaret Ford, Mark Phythian, Christine Walmsley, Pauline Loughhead, and Mark Faulkner.
• We pray for University Chaplaincy- concern over the increasingly decreasing support amongst administrators, but also that there would be an effective Uniting Church presence on campus.
• This week we pray for Italy, Malta, Portugal, Spain. Wisdom and guidance in dealing with immigration issues. Pray also for the victims of human trafficking.

For our GUC Community:

• We pray for Maggie Nangolo in Namibia, Gail Curtis in France, Anand Deo in QLD, Tony Chong in Korea, Steph Craw in New Zealand and others who we know who live elsewhere.

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For our GUC Community:

• We pray for our congregation as we seek leaders for Oasis in 2014.
• We pray for our congregation as we ponder small groups as part of our life.
• We pray for our new Church Council as it serves the church throughout the coming year.
• We pray for our Minister Mark as he prepares for Advent and Christmas.

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For our GUC Community:

• We pray for our minister Mark, that healing will continue since surgery and for peace and hop for him and his family.
• We pray for guidance for each of the teams that are preparing to lead us in worship in the next weeks.
• We pray for those among us who are considering who to nominate for Church Council, and those who will need to make decisions about accepting nomination, that God’s choice for this time will be clear.
• We pray for those among us who are homesick for a place and a community that they have left behind, that they will be comforted.
• We pray for our neighbours who come to the food pantry, that they will find friendship and hope there.

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