CTF Community Prayers March 2022

In March we had Andrew Jarrold, representing Churches Together in Suffolk. Andrew talked about some county-wide activities and intitiatives that we in Felixstowe can be and should be associated with. We will give you more information on these in the coming weeks, so please keep looking at this page and look in our social media.

Lightwave www.lightwave.community is a county-wide Christian group meeting throughout the county in small groups based in homes, pubs, schools and other places that works alongside more traditional church. Do check out their website and pray for their activities.

Suffolk in Prayer https://www.light-wave.org/suffolk-in-prayer is very much linked to Lightwave and is a movement of Christians praying for the people and places in this county. We often post prayer materials from Suffolk in Prayer on our social media and it’s a great opportunity to join with other sin the county to both pray for our area, but to also pray for some of the great issues in our nation and world.

The Big Suffolk Prayer Walk is a county-wide prayer walk to be held between 22nd and 24th April 2022. We will post more on this as we get it but it’s an opportunity, to pray with others for our locality and our county. Details are on https://www.suffolkinprayer.uk/bigsuffolkprayerwalk and you register oyur interest with them by email.

Churches Together in Suffolk will be having a tent at the Suffolk Show and we will be giving more information out nearer the time. Here’s some general blurb about the show https://suffolkshow.co.uk/. Please pray for this as plans are being put together for this outreach.

Another initiative associated with the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee is The Suffolk Blessing. Details can be found here: https://www.cofesuffolk.org/suffolk-blessing.php https://www.cofesuffolk.org/suffolk-blessing.php

Andrew left us with by sharing the Ipswich Blessing which we will bless you with below.

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World Day of Prayer 4th March 2022

This event used to be known as the Women’s World Day Of Prayer, but the organisers stress that the World Day Of Prayer is an event for all, not just women. The theme this year is “I know the plans I have for you.” Do come along to the Salvation Army on Friday 4th at 2pm to worship and pray.

CTF Community Prayers – February 2022

We were pleased to welcome Jake Pass who is the interim Mission To Seafarers Chaplain for Felixstowe & the Haven Ports until a new Chaplain is appointed later in the year. He is also an ordinand with the Church of England, based in Cambridge but prior to that was a Chaplain in MTS in a number of locations, most recently in Hull, where he swapped with Father Herbert Fadriquela last year. For those of you who missed this interesting and informative session here is a video he made for Sea Sunday in 2017 which tells us more of the work of MTS.

Jake gave us a series of prayer points and we reproduce them here so that you may use them in prayer meetings Sunday services and home groups.

Besides a new MTS Chaipain, one of the big changes in Felixstowe will be a takeover of management of the Seafarers Centre by Queen Victoria’s Seaman’s Rest, a Methodist charity committed to ecumenical working with other agencies. Please pray that this change will proceed smoothly and that work amongst seafarers will be blessed by the move.

As a bonus, we’ve added this little video which was produced last year that gives us a little more insight into global work amongst seafarers by a number of mission organisations.

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (17-25 January 2022)

This year’s Week of Prayer is going to be held in Felixstowe from 17th -25th January. The overall international theme has been chosen by Christians from the Middle East and we shall be posting daily devotions from Tuesday 18th on our Facebook Page.

Our Community Prayers on Monday 17th will be led by John Gillett of Open Doors who will give a picture of what life is like for many Christians in the Middle East and tell us about the work of Open Doors and its partners in various locations. It will be on Zoom on our usual third Monday of the month.

LINK:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84879483232?pwd=eHJJblFHNWpuOU1qbkVzdktGQlR4dz09

Meeting ID: 848 7948 3232
Passcode: 803451

As in previous years, we plan to hold a Pilgrimage to many of our churches, taking to opportunity to pray outside at each location we visit. We are planning holding this event as it is an outdoors, but this may be subject to change. Please monitor social media and this web page for possible changes before 22nd.

Unfortunately our keynote event of the week, the United service, had to be changed from a face to face service to a live broadcast on YouTube as had been the cast for of our major services in the last 18 months. Details are below. Connection information will be circulated shortly.

Please note that this service will be signed for the deaf and hearing impaired. There will also be a social time on Zoom after the service – details on the advert above.

Daily Devotions

As in previous years we shall be producing the Churches Together in Britain and Ireland’s daily devotions on our Facebook page from Tuesday 18th to Tuesday 25th. They have been produced by Christians in the Middle East. Please use them in your personal devotions or at church prayer times. The complete set can be downloaded and printed below:

The complete CTBI booklet with the devotions in it is below should you wish to take a look at that.

Fizzability

Walton Parish Nursing has restarted its group for working age people who experience challenges to their physical abilities. Details are below.