Prayer Focus Preview

 

Each week we place a prayer focus on our Home Page highlighting  a particular profession or area of work. To enable you to use these in your Sunday service at the beginning of the week in which they will appear, we include a preview section here. For ease of use, you can download a PDF version to cut and paste into your service sheet, powerpoint etc. This material is free to use provided you acknowledge the source and do not include it in any publication that is sold for profit.

 

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Week 10 – commences 7th March 2010

 

      

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

            

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Those who work with the vulnerable in our society

 

Paid and voluntary workers in the fields of alcohol and drug abuse, legal advice, benefit rights, housing need, marriage and divorce, supporting the physically and mentally impaired, the elderly frail living alone, gamblers, children and adolescents estranged from their families, exhausted carers for relatives and friends, the racially harassed, the suicidal, persistent offenders, victims of crime, the destitute and refugees. Staff of Citizens’ Advice Bureaux and official help lines.

Our tender and compassionate God, in Jesus you give us a picture of your own vulnerability.  You come to us as a refugee escaping violence, as a stranger with no place to call home, as a common criminal condemned to die.  You discard power and authority to be alongside those who experience brokenness and need.  So we pray for all those who today live out that same commitment to being with, and offering help to, those in our communities who are most vulnerable.  Give perseverance, encouragement and wisdom to the many voluntary and paid workers who seek to assist those who are caught up in addictive habits, whose minds are deeply disturbed, who feel they have reached the limits of their own endurance, whose lives are blighted by frailty, loneliness and fear.  And may our whole society learn that the measure of its worth is in the care it shows for those who are the weakest members.  Amen.