A year of intercessions

Our minister, Simon Perry, has written a series of intercessions for use during the church year.

Children and the Church

God of great glory and great humility, we worship you as the high King of heaven, born to a peasant family to grow as a child.

And so we pray for children in our community. We thank you for the message you bring to us from the mouths of the young people who are part of our church. May these children have a real voice in our fellowship: may we hear their insights and share their concerns. May they have space to embody and radiate your presence, and may we have the courage to listen to the Christ who speaks to us through them.

We pray for the countless young people in our world who have been taken from their families. For those vulnerable children who are being turned into soldiers or sex-objects, bring the light and peace of Jesus Christ. For the thousands of children in our world who by this morning, have not eaten for several days, we pray for daily bread and real hope. For the children who for any tragic reason have been fast-tracked to adulthood, we pray for innocence and joy and support.

Open our hearts
to the Christ whose hands and feet are the limbs of the child,
to the Christ whose insight is the piercing glance of the child,
to the Christ whose wisdom is the question of a child,
to the Christ whose judgement is the protest of a child,
to the Christ whose challenge is the teardrop of a child.

Teach us to listen properly to children, in order that we might listen properly to you.

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