NEWS
Time to pray! For our schools... 24th Feb
As you may already know, FCG plays an active part in the work and mission of the Pray for Schools network. I have been part of their steering group over the last 4 years. I am pleased to be able to share with you that, following a dynamic and prayerful meeting this week, with over 80 participants, we are hosting another prayer times on 24th February from 12.30-1.15pm.
It was a privilege to be able to pray with over 80 school chaplains, education workers, youth and children’s leaders and other Christian agencies, including Association of Christian Teachers, Open The Book and Scripture Union.
You can register for this prayer time here:
We look forward to welcoming you on 24th Feb and praying alongside you, for our schools.
Let’s take heart, believing in Jesus’s wonderful promise that ….
“If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.”
(Sara, FCG Media Support Officer)
(cover photo courtesy of Josh Boot at Unsplash)
Healthcare chaplains - tea and chat...
Tea & Chat - for mutual support.
A chance to chew over the week before you go home…..
For the next few weeks, there will be sessions on both Wednesdays and Fridays from about 3.30pm to 5pm. Everyone is welcome.
Zoom details: Meeting ID: 892 5230 8978 Passcode: 956743
Meg Burton, Secretary for Healthcare Chaplaincy (pictured below), will host these events. Meg provides the leadership on Healthcare Chaplaincy work at a national level for the Free Churches as well as in a multi-faith context.
Rev Meg Burton
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Methodist Chaplaincy Forum coming up soon! 9th March at 7.30pm
Save the date!
If you are involved in chaplaincy, there will be a Methodist Chaplaincy Forum on 9th March at 7.30pm.
This will be an event on Zoom and registration details will be available soon, on the FCG website.
(cover photo courtesy of Alesia Kazantceva at Unsplash)
JOIN US IN PRAYING WITH PRISON FELLOWSHIP this Sunday and in the weeks ahead
Will you join us to pray alongside Prison Fellowship this Sunday and in the days ahead?
For over 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.
This Sunday, we are encouraged to pray with Prison Fellowship for all of those preparing for and listening in to the National Prison Radio … With so many of our prisoners restricted to their cells for most of the day, this service is so vital.
Prison Fellowship has put together a service airing on National Prison Radio today.
Please pray that it would bring comfort and encouragement to those listening.
Amen
Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayers…
Find out more about their work HERE. You can read and pray through their January Prayer Diary.
“to show Christ’s love to prisoners by coming alongside them and supporting them”
Photo courtesy of Matt Botsford of Horizon Christian Fellowship at Unsplash)
Renewed call to persevere in prayer for the NHS
Rev Paul Rochester, General Secretary of FCG, regularly attends meetings with the National Ecumenical Officers of CTE Member Churches. That group, along with reps from CTBI and other networks, have welcomed the call issued by the Baptist Union of Great Britain to persevere in prayer. We are all invited to the new call of the Baptist Union of Great Britain to sustain our prayers for the NHS.
We were very aware that all our Churches will have been praying for those who work in the NHS throughout this situation, and many have been providing resources for churches and individuals to do so. We are also aware of various different calls to prayer and of days of prayer which are being organised by different groups.
However, there was a feeling this morning that this is a key period in which we are being called to pray in a sustained way. We are therefore commending to your attention the suggestion of the BUGB that we focus our prayer on five key areas:
Pray for all the NHS staff for their own safety, energy and peace in dealing with each and every patient.
Pray for those in hospital leadership, for wisdom and for good decisions to give the best outcomes for patients.
Pray for patients; for healing, for peace and ultimately to fight this disease and get home and pray for their relatives who feel helpless.
Pray for the vaccine, that it will and is working against this latest strain of Covid-19.
Pray for a reprieve and an end to Covid-19.
We very much feel that this is a call, not only to Baptists and to Baptist churches, but to the whole family of Christians in this country – and indeed, it is of relevance to those of other faiths.
The Baptist Union of Great Britain asks for your help in promoting this call to prayer through your denominational channels. Please do feel free to circulate the text as widely as you can.
cover photo courtesy fo Jonathan Borba at Unsplash)