Praying deeply for our schools...

Pray for Schools have produced an inspiring and wide ranging prompt sheet to help us to to pray more deeply and meditatively for our schools. These ideas have been gathered together by a retired deputy head teacher, who is also a church leader.

These prayer prompts will help us to pray more deeply, and more fully help us to consider the schools we hold up to God in prayer.

You can read, reflect upon and pray with these encouragements and inspirations HERE.

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Tea and cake - a get together for healthcare chaplains - Fridays @ 4!

Revd Meg Burton, the Free Churches Secretary for Healthcare, invites you to bring a cuppa and have a get-together each Friday at 4pm through Zoom. Healthcare chaplains welcome!

Meg says, “I will be there between 4pm and 5pm if anyone would like to join me for an informal chat about anything.”

Often things come up in our working week we want to share or we might just appreciate a friendly face and a cuppa on a Friday… so here’s the link. Join us if you can!

Zoom Meeting ID: 819 1769 4407  Password: 585847

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Online prayer gathering for those involved in schools & colleges on 10th July @ 10am

Chaplaincy Central in partnership with Pray for Schools have set up an online prayer gathering on 10th July at 10am

For all those who want to pray for schools and colleges… whether you work or volunteer in a school or college, are involved in educational chaplaincy, lead school assemblies or run youth and children’s groups in your churches… do join us.

Please do share the link with those you know who work in schools and colleges.

To Help, Hope and Hear

An online prayer gathering for chaplains and others working in schools and colleges.
In partnership with Pray for Schools, July 10th at 10:00am

The link to register for the prayer meeting is HERE.

The Free Church Education Committee has a long an productive working history with both Pray for Schools and Chaplaincy Central who are co-hosting this time of prayer.

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To show Christ’s love to prisoners...

“To show Christ’s love to prisoners by coming alongside them and supporting them” - that is the mission of Prison Fellowship and for the last 40 years they have been working with, supporting and praying with and for prisoners across England and Wales.

The Free Churches Group and our work in prison chaplaincy have worked with The Prison Fellowship (PF) for many years.

Find out more about their work HERE. And great news! Prison Fellowship’s prayer diary for July is out now!

You can read and pray through their July Prayer Diary HERE.

To get our praying hearts off to a flying start this month, here is their prayer for today:

Loving God, help us even in these hard times, to trust that You are who You say You are, and that You are living and active in our lives, and the lives of everyone in prison. Amen

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Education Sunday is coming up on 13th September!

For well over one hundred years there has been an annual recognition of Education Sunday in England and Wales. It is a national day of prayer and celebration for everyone in the world of education. The theme is devised by an ecumenical steering group representing different Christian denominations and organisations.
The resources are intended to be used as a springboard for a variety of events on or around Education Sunday.

Education Sunday 2020: 13th September

Resources will be available nearer the time.

The theme for 2020 will be "A learning people in a time of change".

The Bible passages are:

• Exodus 14.19-31

• Psalm 114

• Romans 14.1-12

• Matthew 18.21-35

Please join us as we pray for the work of the steering group and for Sarah Lane Cawte, FCG Education Officer, as she gathers and develops this year’s resources.

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