Diocesan Cycle of Prayer

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Kilwarlin Upper & Lower
5th October 2025

Priest-in-charge: Elaine Pentland

  • Please pray with us: “Lord grow your church here, grow it deep and grow it wide. Purify our motives and glorify your name.” 

  • Pray for Elaine, for direction in how to lead both parishes.

  • For our Sunday School young folk and teachers as they start a new season.

  • Pray for a hunger within the congregation to be in God’s word as we start Bible study in November and for hearts that are stirred to cry out in prayer. 

  • For creative ways for us to reach out into the rural community and God’s favour on activities already arranged between now and Christmas.

  • Please pray for new people to come to faith and those who have wandered to come home.

  • Pray for an organist/musician to lead sung worship.

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LAMP Churches
12th October 2025

Rector: Henry Blair, Curate: Peter Booth

LAMP is a big team of small parishes - fourteen in total - whose mission is to support each other as we seek to be worshipping communities in the Lecale area of County Down.

  • We give thanks for the start of the new church season and the successful start of a new parent and toddler group in Downpatrick as well as thanking God for the group in Seaforde.  

  • Please pray for the growth of all the LAMP churches.  Pray that we will grow in a desire to be prayerful in all we do, and for a deepening relationship with God. 

  • Pray for clarity of vision for the future and a clear sense of all that God is leading us to do in the next year.  

  • Pray for the planning of Bible study and Alpha courses across the group in the next year.

  • Pray for a growing realisation across the group of churches that with God all things are possible and no matter how the future looks our fate is not predetermined. Ask God to release a sense of hope for the future across the group.

Moneyreagh Community Church
19th October 2025

Ordained Local Minister: Rory Blake-Knox

  • Please pray for our new Alpha course starting in Ballygowan - for good interest and that people who come along would encounter the Holy Spirit and come to know Jesus.

  • Pray that we would be able to integrate newcomers into the life of MCC.

  • Pray that we would see new leaders raised up to lead home groups and be able to meet the needs of the children and young people we are meeting with. 

  • Pray for financial provision for MCC as we pursue ministry to reach Moneyreagh and beyond with the good news of Jesus. 

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Movilla Abbey Church
26th October 2025

Rector: Alan Peek

  • The congregational phase of our Church & Community Development process is taking place this autumn and will be run in conjunction with CAP and Thrive Ireland. Please pray that every member will catch the vision for holistic transformation of their own lives, and holistic transformation in the community through our engagement.

  • Pray for our thriving Youth Ministry and our volunteer leadership, especially Gareth McBurney and Daniel Craig.

  • Please pray for our Church Leadership Team as we navigate the care and discipleship of a growing congregation and seek to discern and implement God's vision for our mission.

  • For more adult (and youth) conversions and baptisms!

  • Pray for an increasing and deepening comfort and confidence in our united Methodist and Anglican identity.

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