For our GUC Community:
- We pray for leaders for our church life in 2012.
- We pray for our community events together; the Curry Night and the Spring Getaway!
- We pray for those who will help lead worship in the coming month.
- We pray for those in our congregation who are finding life overwhelming at this time.
- We pray for those whose lives seem consumed and where hope is a distant thing.
For Presbytery & the wider church: South Woden Congregation
Pray for:
- We give thanks for our children and for the invigoration of our Sunday School program
- We give thanks for our regular shared community meals
- We celebrate our ongoing friendship with the congregation of St James, and give thanks for our recent combined service and meal.
- We pray for the coming Pearce community Christmas Carols
- We pray for Christmas outreach opportunities
For our World: Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine
Pray for:
- Guidance, as these nations work to reconfigure political and economic structures.
- Compassion and integrity for all peoples in these nations with such diverse ethnic histories.
- Those who suffer from alcoholism, HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis and other life-threatening diseases.
- The large numbers of people who now live in poverty and are unemployed.
- Revitalization of the churches after decades of official atheism.
- Those in Belarus and Ukraine who suffer from the continued effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
- Those who struggle for democracy and truthfulness in the media.
