For our GUC Community:
- We pray for people we know who are hurting.
- We pray for our Easter Worship Services
- We give thanks for the many gifts, people, cultures, within our church.
- We give thanks for those things which are good in our church life and we pray for those things that trouble us.
For Presbytery & the wider church: Hospital Chaplaincy
Pray for:
- The patients and all their families that come to Canberra for treatment and feel far from home and their faith communities
- The volunteers of the Uniting Team and all the teams that give graciously of their love to those in need
- Pray that we might find those special people to fulfil our volunteer roster and ensure that there is a helping hand for every patient and their families
- Pray that those entering their clinical pastoral care training have a rewarding and enriching experience that helps prepare their for their ministry
For our World: Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Taiwan
Pray for:
- Those who continue to be affected by the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
- An end to nuclear weapons.
- Greater protection of human rights and a decrease in political corruption.
- Those families torn apart by the separation of Nth and Sth Korea.
- Peace in this region of frequent tension and misunderstanding.
- Those in Nth Korea who suffer from malnutrition and face starvation.
- Hope for people in Nth Korea who have seen only despair, deprivation and violence.
- A just and peaceful resolution to the conflict between China and Taiwan, and an end to the ambiguous understanding of Taiwan’s identity in the world.
- Those who seek power, prestige and wealth at the expense of spiritual wholeness, that they may be filled and renewed.
- Aboriginal peoples in Taiwan.
- Those still rebuilding their lives after powerful earthquakes.
- Children forced into prostitution.