Sunday Prayers

On Sundays, before our worship services there is the opportunity to explore alternative forms of prayer.

Discerning Prayer : Sundays : 10am - 10.30am

We are starting on a period of reflection and exploration as we look towards the future, and how our life here as a church might develop. So, for half an hour on a Sunday morning before the service, there is an invitation to meet together to pray for the church and its ministry, and specifically for the future work. In this meeting, we are going to draw on the tradition that has been very strong in the Free Churches, of an open prayer meeting. Although there will be somebody leading, there will be opportunity for all to take part, aloud or silently, in praying that we will discern the mind of Christ.

Guided Gospel Encounters : Sundays : 5.15pm - 5.45pm

On a Sunday afternoon, for about half an hour, before the evening service, we will have the opportunity to explore the Ignatian pattern of encountering the Scriptures in prayer. Again, this is an old and tried pattern, and the form we will use is a modified version of the full form. At each meeting we will listen together to a portion of the gospel story, and then, through guided meditation, we will have the opportunity to explore the story in personal ways.

All of these meetings are open to anybody who wishes to come. Although there is strength in the “habit of meeting together”, coming once, or occasionally, is fine.