Prayer
As Christians, we believe it is important to pray: together, individually, for one another, for our community and people throughout the world. To help us in prayer this church has:

The Prayer Book: kept on the table in the foyer for anyone to write prayer concerns for people and situations. This is used during Sunday worship.  

Quiet and Prayer Time before Worship: a room is available for personal prayer and quiet preparation from 10.45 a.m. each Sunday. Anyone can come and go as they wish even if only for a few minutes.  

Praying for one another: Four times a year everyone is given the name of a member of the church family to pray for over the next three months. As we do this in the quiet and privacy of our own homes we know that we too are being upheld in prayer. 

The Prayer Net: is an opportunity to express a personal prayer. Thread a strand of wool through the net and silently offer your prayer. As it is covered it becomes a symbol to show this is a place of prayer.
        

Prayer Handbook:
The Methodist Church produces a prayer handbook each year with daily items for prayer and meditation.


Prayer Vigils:  
The idea of a prayer vigil is centuries old. Vigil indicates a time of "vigilance", wakefulness, a watch. Vigils were originally kept on the night before a religious feast with prayer or other devotions. Prayer vigils have become an important part of the prayer life of our Church.  

During a prayer vigil a room is available in the Church for up to 24 hours for individual or group meditation, prayer, and reflection. The room is filled with many resources that can be used in prayer including music, light, water, books, Bible verses and art materials.  The resources also reflect any focus that the prayer vigil may have.
One of our main aims in undertaking prayer vigils is to help make living prayer accessible. For this reason our prayer vigils are informal, open to all, and our young people and anyone who is uncertain is given support to take part.  

 PICTURES FROM OUR LAST PRAYER WEEKEND