Calendar of Prayer

Diocese of CanterburyCHANGED LIVES cHANGING LIVES

‘Praying for each other; praying with each other’

Sept 2020

1 Sept Walmer and CorniloClergy: Seth Cooper, Carolyn Wood

Assistant Curate: Stephen O’Connor

Reader: Malcolm Sawyer

Schools: The Downs CEPS, Kingsdown & Ringwould CE Primary School

We give thanks for our large team of volunteers who provide a weekly audio service for those shielding at home each week led by Jean Winn, our Musical Director Chris Lockyer, choir members, and worship leaders. Please pray for Rector Seth Cooper, Revd. Carolyn Wood, and Revd. Steve O’Connor, together with Mavis Stevenson, Richard Harris and Patrick MacWilliam (Churchwardens), Malcolm Sawyer (Reader), our local lay ministers Ann Ford, Julia Cox and Paul Henderson, our retired clergy the Revd. John Winn, Revd. Frank Kent; and all those engaged in our worship and pastoral activities. Pray also for the staff and students of Kingsdown and Ringwould Church of England Primary School, The Downs Church of England Primary School, Ripplevale School, and the staff and residents of the many care homes in the benefice.

Anglican Communion:Ondo (Nigeria) The Rt Revd Stephen OniCalabar (Nigeria) The Rt Revd Tunde AdeleyeKinshasa (Congo) The Rt Revd Achille Mutshindu

2 Sept Canterbury Deanery: its clergy and people

Area Dean: Mark Griffin

Lay Chairs: Janet Bentley, Liz Morrison

Secretary: Harry Macdonald

Treasurer: John Morrison

Anglican Communion:Ontario (Canada) The Rt Revd Michael Oulton

Calcutta (North India) The Rt Revd Probal Kanto Dutta

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3 Sept Canterbury Deanery: Clergy with Permission to OfficiatePlease pray with us for those with Permission to Officiate within our Deanery. We thank God for their willingness to continue serving the Church with generosity and joy. May they be upheld and strengthened in their ministry. Please pray for:

Grahame Whittlesea, Iain Taylor, Peter Freeman, John Arnold, John Barton, Julia Butterworth, Michael Fulljames, Peter Jacobs, David Naumann, Jean Taylor, Paul Wilton, Reg Humphriss, Thomas Collett-White, Derek Mottershead, Sara Bimson, Geoff Pearson, Clive Barlow, Perry Butler, Eileen Routh, Peter Ould, Juliet Woollcombe, Bill Hornsby, Richard Owen, Simon Stocks, Brian Kelly, Norman Woods, Ted Hurst, John Dilnot, Michael Stace, Helen Connoll, Jonathan Gledhill, Bob Key, David Cawley, Alan Gregory, Roy Kilford, William Campen, Brian McHenry, Michael Reeve, Mark Blamey, Nina Coulthard, Sue White

Anglican Communion:Ogbomoso (Nigeria) The Rt Revd Titus Babtunde OlayinkaCaledonia (Canada) The Rt Revd David TJ LehmannCalgary (Canada) The Most Revd Gregory Kerr-Wilson

4 Sept Canterbury Deanery: ChaplainsPray for all those exercising chaplaincy ministry - formally and informally - within Schools, uniformed organisations, residential care communities, community clubs, businesses, health care groups, prisons, police, armed services and in sport. May God give them wisdom to respond to the opportunities given, to be assured of their calling to be witnesses to Christ. May they know the support of local churches and see God at work where ever they go!

Steve Bennett, Lindsay Collins, Paul Glass, Stephen Laird, Jeremy Law, Martin Robbins, Dave Stroud, Alanna-Jayne Williams, Kevin Maddy, Helen Connoll, Ted Hurst, Geoff Pearson, Jo Richards

Anglican Communion:Oregon (The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd Michael HanleyCalifornia (The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd Marc Andrus

5 Sept Blean: St Cosmus & St DamianClergy: Stephen Laird

Reader: Peter Clough

Please pray for the people at Blean church and the neighbourhoods and school it serves as we progress with our building project, to enhance the facilities we can offer the community, and for our post-Covid pastoral and mission strategies.

Anglican Communion:Orlu (Nigeria) The Most Revd Bennett OkoroCameroon (West Africa) The Rt Revd Dibo Thomas-Babyngton ElangoKirinyaga (Kenya) The Rt Revd Joseph Kibichwa

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6 Sept Praying for church musicians

We pray for all church musicians, giving thanks for their talents and their commitment to serving God through their gifts. We pray for directors of music as they work out new and creative ways to sustain musical worship, and for all those who assist them. We remember especially before God today those choir members and instrumentalists who are not yet able to return to their musical ministry, and ask

that God would sustain them in this difficult time.

(Prayer Request written by Revd Max Kramer -Precentor at Canterbury Cathedral)

Anglican Communion:Pray for the Anglican Church of Southern AfricaThe Most Revd Thabo Makgoba - Archbishop of Capetown and Primate of Southern Africa

7 Sept Canterbury: All SaintsClergy: Phil Greig

Reader: Gavin Netherton

Licensed Lay Worker: Lucy Henderson

School: St John’s Church of England Primary School

Anglican Communion:Oru (Nigeria) The Rt Revd Geoffrey ChukwunenyeCanberra & Goulburn (Australia) The Rt Revd Mark Short

8 Sept Canterbury: St Martin & St PaulClergy: Mark Griffin

Assistant Curate: Hannah Thomson

Readers: Samuel Keeler-Walker, Chris Robinson, Rosemary Walters, Mary Butcher

Please give thanks for all those who helped with the technology to produce a rich diet of recorded and live streamed services, and all who have been working with our local community to help those in need and those shielding.

Please too pray for activities starting up again after lockdown especially services and our work with young people –especially as we follow social distancing guidelines. Also, for our continuing zoom meetings and recorded talks, as well as our new midweek communion live streamed from St Paul’s - all new initiatives started in lockdown but continuing to meet identified need.

Anglican Communion:Osaka (Japan) The Rt Revd Andrew Haruhisa IsoCanterbury (England) The Most Revd and Rt Hon Justin Welby (Primate)

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9 Sept Canterbury: St Mary Bredin

Clergy: Barney De Berry

Associate Priest: Stephen Carter

Licensed Lay Worker: Charmaine Muir

Reader: Martin Collings

Please give thanks that since lockdown we’ve met every weekday for Morning Prayer online. Pray for the volunteers who have given their time and

helped put together and deliver food parcels. Pray that the congregation have been encouraged through our online services. Pray for us as we plan for September.

Anglican Communion:Osun (Nigeria) The Rt Revd James Afolabi PopoolaCape Coast (West Africa) The Rt Revd Victor Atta-Baffoe

10 Sept Canterbury: St StephenClergy: Kevin Maddy, Stephen Laird

Readers: Peter Toon, Sally Walters

School: The Archbishop’s School

Give thanks that St Stephen’s is now open for public worship at 9.30 on Sunday morning and for private prayer on Wednesday afternoons. In addition, we have two online Services on Sundays and we are trying to think and pray our way through the process of determining our future pattern of worship. Together with the Diocese we are trying to discern where God is leading us, and we know that our future will look different to our past. Please pray for us during this period of discernment and for the future mission and ministry of this parish.

Anglican Communion:Osun North (Nigeria) The Rt Revd Abiodun T OlaoyeCape Town (Southern Africa) The Most Revd Thabo Makgoba (Primate)Carlisle (England) The Rt Revd James Scobie Newcome

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11 Sept Harbledown: St Michael & All Angels

Clergy: Peter HarndenPlease pray with us, for our elderly and vulnerable church family members at this time of pandemic; that we might be shown the way how to improve our church finances and other resources; that we might discern the way ahead for our beloved “tin tabernacle,” S.Gabriel’s Rough Common. And we ask for prayers of thanksgiving, that we are now drawing together more strongly and positively after such a

difficult first half of the year.Anglican Communion:Osun North East (Nigeria) The Rt Revd Ebenezer Akorede OkuyeluCashel & Ossory (Ireland) The Rt Revd Michael Andrew James Burrows

12 Sept The St Dunstan, St Mildred & St Peter Canterbury BeneficeClergy: Jo Richards, Kevin Goodman

Readers: Jane Gledhill, John Morrison, Tessa Taylor, Margaret Wells

Please give thanks for all that we have learnt during lockdown. And pray with us for discernment as to how we can become more involved with our local city community and a nurture a growing awareness of the impact of climate change.

Anglican Communion:Ottawa (Canada) VacantCentral Buganda (Uganda) The Rt Revd Michael Lubowa

13 Sept Praying for Kent UniversityPlease pray today for Kent University, (the Diocese’s most culturally and internationally diverse community), we have a multi-faith Chaplaincy Team, led by our full-time Anglican Chaplain. We have a strong, positive profile among students and staff, and need your prayers as we adapt to the changes during the Covid situation: we are seeking to help staff under pressure; and to find new mission and pastoral strategies among students who will

be studying and socialising under unfamiliar conditions. Please pray for the Team as we strengthen our own relationships and seek to model a work-partnership which is both ecumenical and multi-faith.

(Prayer request written by Revd Stephen Laird - Chaplain to Kent University)

Anglican Communion:Pray for the Anglican Church of South AmericaThe Most Revd Gregory James Venables - Presiding Bishop of the Anglican Church of South America & Bishop of Argentina

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14 Sept Sturry: St Nicholas with Fordwich: St Mary the Virgin & Westbere: All Saints with HerSden

Clergy: Peter Cornish

School: Sturry Church of England Primary School

Please pray for the church as we emerge from lockdown; over recent months we’ve been trying to keep connected both to each other and to the living God. Pray for those church members who are anxious about mixing socially again even among friends; for our church officers; and for our work in the wider community, praying especially for our local schools and care homes. Pray especially for our joint working with Anglican and Methodist partners, as together we look towards the future.

Anglican Communion:Otukpo (Nigeria) The Rt Revd David BelloCentral Busoga (Uganda) The Rt Revd Patrick WakulaKisangani (Congo) The Rt Revd Lambert Funga Botolome

15 Sept Thanington: St Nicholas & St FaithClergy: Vacant

Churchwarden: Caroline Mettam

Anglican Communion:Owerri (Nigeria) The Rt Revd Chukwuma OparahCentral Ecuador (The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd Victor ScantleburyKita Kanto (Japan) The Rt Revd Zerubbabel Katsuichi Hirota

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16 Sept Canterbury: Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of ChristThe Dean: Robert Willis

Archdeacon: Jo Kelly-Moore

Canon Librarian: Tim Naish

Canon Missioner: Emma Pennington

Canon Treasurer: Andrew Dodd

Receiver General: Christopher Nickols

Lay Members of Chapter: Janice Reid, Caroline Spencer, William Pettit

We give thanks that the Cathedral is once again open to welcome worshippers, pilgrims and visitors and for all those members of staff who continued our ministry of prayer, hospitality and care during lockdown. We pray especially at this time for the Dean and Chapter and all the staff as we undergo the hard and heart-breaking task of restructuring as a result of Covid 19, that we may be given strength compassionately to navigate these difficult times, heal broken relationships and have hope for the future of all.

Anglican Communion:Owo (Nigeria) The Rt Revd Stephen Ayodeji FagbemiCentral Florida (The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd Gregory Brewer

17 Sept East bridge Deanery: its clergy and people

Area Dean: Stefan Thomas

Lay Chair: Steve Sheath

Lay Chair Assistant: John Andrews

Secretary:John Andrews

Treasurer: Michael Gallagher

We pray for our wonderful deanery and its pockets of light that penetrate the darkness of uncertainty in

these uncertain times, as all our churches continue bear witness to God’s mission. We are grateful that all benefices have incumbents and an interim minister, and we pray for the coming curacy of Rev Dr Lesley Hardy and her family in the Barham Downs and Adisham Benefice. We pray for our Church Wardens, Lay Readers and ALMs and PTO’s in our deanery, and particular for those who are ‘shielding’ for health reasons. We pray that the Holy Spirit continues to guide our Synod and elected members and that everything can be done so that the church may be built up - 1. Cor.14:26

Anglican Communion:Oxford (England) The Rt Revd Steven CroftCentral Gulf Coast (The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd Russell KendrickCentral Melanesia (Melanesia) The Most Revd Leonard Dawea (Primate)

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18 Sept East bridge Deanery: Clergy with Permission to OfficiatePlease pray with us for those with Permission to Officiate within our Deanery. We thank God for their willingness to continue serving the Church with generosity and joy. May they be upheld and strengthened in their ministry. Please pray for:

Alan Duke, Gerald Greenwood, Lizzie Hopthrow, Nigel Hale, Andrew Way, Barbara Way, Paul Francis

Anglican Communion:Oyo (Nigeria) The Rt Revd Williams Oluwarotimi AladekugbeCentral New York (The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd DeDe Duncan-Probe

19 Sept East bridge Deanery: ChaplainsPlease pray with us for those who minister as Chaplains within our Deanery. Please bless them with energy, resilience and joy as they share the good news of the gospel. May they reach out with your hands of love, to the lost, the forgotten, the imprisoned and the dying. Please pray for:

Lorraine Apps-Huggins, Hilary Hills, Ray Horton

Anglican Communion:Pacong (South Sudan) The Rt Revd Joseph Maker AtotCentral Newfoundland (Canada) The Rt Revd John WattonKitale (Kenya) The Rt Revd Stephen Kewasis

20 Sept Praying for the Reader Licensing Service

On this day we pray for those to be admitted and licensed as Readers in the Church and Diocese: Margaret Bowers, Ann Harrison, Isobel Legg, Anne Loat, Sharon Paine, Peter Roberts and Graham Snellin. We pray also for June Noakes and Nicholas Tomaszewski who will receive new licenses during the service. This year the service is being conducted online as a consequence of the current restrictions and guidance on

public worship. Readers are licensed by the Bishop as ministers of the Word, ministering in the church and wider community. May they know God’s Blessing upon them as they seek to be a Blessing to others.

(Prayer request written by Nigel Collins - Warden of Readers)

Anglican Communion:Pray for the Province of the Episcopal Church of South SudanThe Most Revd Justin Badi Arama – Bishop of Juba and Archbishop of the Province of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan

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21 Sept Aylesham: St PeterClergy: Stefan Thomas, Nick Ratcliffe

Reader: Esther Jonas

Prayers are very much needed for the challenges we face in a post-Lockdown community, albeit with some restrictions, but where the mission of God continues through food parcels to impoverished parishioners. Give thanks that we are still able to provide three meals a week for the elderly; along with youth packs providing activities, treats and voucher snacks. Give thanks too that our church building remains a place of prayer and service and increased attendance

Anglican Communion:Kiteto (Tanzania) The Rt Revd Isaiah ChambalaKitgum (Uganda) The Rt Revd Wilson KitaraKitui (Kenya) The Rt Revd Josephat Mule

22 Sept Barham Downs with Adisham Benefice

Clergy: Stefan Thomas

Assistant Curate: Lesley Hardy

School: Adisham CE Primary School

Barham CE Primary School

We pray for the values of the kingdom of heaven, (exemplified by good and caring neighbourliness throughout the COVID19 crisis), to continue within our communities. We give thanks for the

technology that enables the Gospel to be proclaimed. We give thanks for the generosity shown by many in supporting our pastoral relief fund. We pray for all who work in the Adisham and Barham schools and Barham pre-School, and in our nursing and special needs homes. We pray for our churches to become beacons of hope when they are open for prayer and during our weekly benefice service. We pray for a good harvest to come, as we work as labourers of the Gospel, and praise God for all our blessings - Matthew 9:37-38

Anglican Communion:Panama (Central America) The Rt Revd Julio Murray Thompson (Primate)Central Pennsylvania (The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd Audrey ScanlanKivu (Rwanda) The Rt Revd Augustin Ahimana

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23 Sept The Bridge BeneficeClergy: Estella Last

Reader: Margaret Clarke

School: Bridge & Patrixbourne CE Primary School

Please pray for our Parish as we prayerfully discern what it means to be a new single parish and how we can realise this in the current circumstances. Pray for our Churchwardens, PCC members, Treasurer, Administrator, Lay Reader and Priest and all those who support our 5 churches. Pray for the future of our Parish as we consider how we can serve our communities in new ways and continue to adjust to change. Pray too for Bridge and Patrixbourne Primary school for all staff, pupils, parents and Governors and for the staff and residents in Care Homes in our Parish.

Anglican Communion:Pankshin (Nigeria) The Rt Revd Dr Olumuyiwa AjayiCentral Philippines (Philippines) The Rt Revd Dixie Copanut Taclobao

24 Sept Canonry BeneficeClergy: David Moulden

Readers: Janice Willett, Anne Talbert

Schools: Ash Cartwright & Kelsey CE Primary School

Goodnestone CE Primary School

Nonington CE Primary School

Please give thanks with us as we continue our live-streaming service each Sunday. The popularity of this service and the recording on facebook and youtube is not only exceeding our expectations, but has also provided a further means of ‘glueing’ and forging our identity as a Benefice. However, like many other Christian communities, many folks in our Benefice are grieving the loss of seeing one another and singing together. Pray especially for Goodnestone choir, and our other worship groups, who are struggling to practice and are thus losing a sense of purpose and momentum.

Anglican Communion:Panyana (South Sudan) The Rt Revd Seme Nigo Abinda Central Solomons (Melanesia) The Rt Revd Ben SekaCentral Tanganyika (Tanzania) The Rt Revd Dickson Chilongani

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25 Sept Nonington: The Living WellChaplain of The Living Well: Lorraine Apps-Huggins

Assistant Chaplains: Hilary Hills, Ray Horton

Please pray that God will be with us as we plan and revise our programme for 2021. Pray for the continued outpouring of goodness, grace and healing to be found at The living Well, The Diocesan Centre of Healing & Wholeness and for that to be easily accessible and transportable and translatable for all. Amen!

Anglican Communion:Central Zambia (Central Africa) The Rt Revd Derek Gary Kamukwamba (Diocesan Bishop)

26 Sept Praying for the Ordination of Deacons

Please pray for the ordinands, parishes and training incumbents as we joyfully prepare for the ordination of our Deacons today. We pray especially for the ordinands in what has been a time of uncertainty and the unusual start to parish life that those being ordained deacon have experienced.

By name we pray today for; Alice Bates, Ylva Blid-Mackenzie, Charlotte Coles, Ben Forbes, Lucy Henderson, Paula Jardine-Rose, Charmaine Muir,

Cathrine Fungai Ngangira, Deb Scoble, Angie Stupple, Jen Walters.

We thank God that he has brought each of them to us, and we pray that he will continue to make them a blessing among us.

(Prayer Request written by Revd Jenny Corcoran, Chaplain to the Bishop of Dover)

Anglican Communion:Paraguay (South America) The Rt Revd Peter John Henry BartlettCentral Zimbabwe (Central Africa) The Revd Ignatius MakumbeKobe (Japan) The Rt Revd Augustine Naoaki Kobayashi

27 Sept Littlebourne BeneficeClergy: Gillean Craig

Readers: John Styles, Katharine Harris

Schools: Wickhambreaux CE Primary School

Littlebourne CE Primary School

Anglican Communion:Pray for the Province of the Episcopal Church of SudanThe Most Revd Ezekiel Kumir Kondo - Archbishop of the Province of Sudan & Bishop of Khartoum

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28 Sept Reculver Deanery: its clergy and people

Area Dean: Carol Smith

Lay Chair: Amanda Boucherat

Secretary: David Kemp

Treasurer: David Kemp

We give thanks to God for the countless new opportunities we’ve been given to connect through prayer and worship with the people who live in our deanery on a much wider scale than we’ve ever seen, or perhaps even imagined, might be possible. We pray for clarity of thought and purpose as we discern which parts of the old to resurrect and which parts of the new to sustain, as we strive to stay connected to God whilst serving those with whom we connect in this part of

God’s kingdom.

As the academic year gets underway, we pray for our ministry to the children and young people in our parishes, benefices and schools.

Anglican Communion:Patna (North India) The Most Revd Dr Philip MarandihChandigarh (North India) The Rt Revd Younas Massey

29 Sept Reculver Deanery: Clergy with Permission to OfficiatePlease pray with us for those with Permission to Officiate within our Deanery. We thank God for their willingness to continue serving the Church with generosity and joy. May they be upheld and strengthened in their ministry. Please pray for:

Clifford Goble, Donald Lugg, Geoff Neale, Joyce Outen, Christopher Smith, Barbara Nicholson, Michael Chandler, David Springthorpe, John Currie, Chris Morgan-Jones, Keith McNicol, Chris Skingley, Howard Such, Philip Atherton, Denise Critchell

Anglican Communion:Pelotas (Brazil) The Rt Revd Renato Da Cruz RaatzChelmsford (England) Vacant

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30 Sept Reculver Deanery: Chaplains

Pray for all those exercising chaplaincy ministry - formally and informally - within Schools, uniformed organisations, residential care communities, community clubs, businesses, health care groups, prisons, police, armed services and in sport. May God give them wisdom to respond to the opportunities given, to be assured of their calling to be witnesses to Christ. May they know the support of local churches and see God at work where ever they go!

Anglican Communion:Pennsylvania (The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd Daniel GutierrezChester (England) The Rt Revd Peter Robert Forster

Prayer in Worship – two workshops on leading others in prayer

Presented online by Lyndall Bywater and Primrose Northrop, both part of the Changing Lives Prayer Network Team

Session 1 – Using art and Creativity in Prayer

Session 2 – Leading Intercessions

NB. These sessions last 90 minutes each and are stand-alone, meaning you can choose to do one or both, depending on what you most want to learn more about.

Session 1 – Using art and Creativity in Prayer

Saturday 24th October 2020 10-11:30am

The use of art and creativity can bring prayer to life in beautiful ways, especially when we’re praying together with others, but it can be hard to know what to try and where to start. This session is for those who’d like to explore how to lead others in multi-sensory prayer, using art, music and creativity. We will discover how art can help deepen our wonder and open our hearts and minds to hear God’s voice; we will explore how using our creativity can help us respond to God’s voice in prayer. And we will consider how we can use art, music and creativity in online settings as well as face-to-face.14

This session will be a mixture of teaching and prayer, and will prove particularly relevant as we journey through our diocesan season of ‘Listening and discerning further along the way’.

This session is open to all. You don’t have to be artistic or creative, and you won’t have to create anything for others to see.

The session will be held on Zoom. It is free of charge and will last 90 minutes.

To book your place, email Lyndall on lbywater@diocant.org

Session 2 – Leading Intercessions

Saturday 21st November 2020

10-11:30am

An inspiring, informative, interactive training session for anyone leading Intercessions in church services (or interested in doing so).

We’ll think about what intercessory prayer is and we’ll talk together about preparing Intercessions for a service or other time of gathered worship. How do you decide what to pray for? How do you structure your prayers? And what are some of the practical things to bear in mind, especially now that we’re often praying together online.

No experience of leading Intercessions is necessary, and you won’t have to lead any prayers in the session itself unless you want to.

The session will be held on Zoom. It is free of charge and will last 90 minutes.

To book your place, email Lyndall on lbywater@diocant.org

NB. This replaces the workshops we had planned to run in March and April. If you had signed up to attend the workshop on 21st March, you will receive an email soon, asking if you’d like a place on this session.

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Cover painting: Primrose Northrop, Sept Swallows, acrylic on cloth 2020

Join a deeper spiritual conversation this autumn

Find out more here: www.canterburydiocese.org/listening

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