8am Congregation
with Noel Bowditch
Congregational Response
The leadership team of our 8am community has met and taken the following steps.
- Organised members of the congregation into pastoral groupings, with a convenor designated to each. This person will be in touch with you in the near future. The aim of these groupings is to ensure that people are being cared for and to maintain a strong sense of Christian community.
- Appointed Keir Steedman as our prayer coordinator for the coming months. She will communicate prayer needs to the convenors of the pastoral groupings for sharing with others.
- For those with internet access at home, arranging for a ‘virtual meeting’ to take place at 8:30am each Sunday from March 29. (If you do have internet access and have received this notice in printed form, it means that we have no record of your email address – so please email it to me directly as soon as possible.) Within the next few days those with email addresses will receive information about how to participate in this.
Individual Response
The fact that we are unable to gather in St Peter’s at 8am on Sundays does not mean that our faith should take a break. I encourage you to make sure you continue or put in place time for regular prayer and Bible reading in the coming season. Click here for some suggestions for prayer:
- Pray for people with special needs and situations that are of special concern to you.
- Pray for government leaders and health workers in their response to COVID-19.
- Pray for church leaders as they seek to guide the church through uncertain times.
- Pray for one another, that we may grow deeper in Christ in the present circumstances.
- Begin your Bible reading with systematic reading the Psalms, Gospels and/or Romans.
- Keep in contact with other members of the 8am service.
- If you want access to any of the resources of our Anglican prayer book, please let me know and I will make sure you receive them.
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