Man at Prayer

Prayer is a vital part of our life as a church. We believe that God delights to hear and answer prayer, which is a crucial part of everything we do.

Prayer meetings

Described as the “engine room” of the church, our monthly prayer meetings are where we gather as God’s people to pray for our world, community, and church. These occur directly after the Sunday morning service at 11:30 am in the church hall on the second Sunday of each month. They are open to anyone, and we encourage everyone to come along. Please connect via Zoom for those who can’t be there in person. We pray for different areas and topics each month, and there are always activities for children so that families can get involved, too.

Prayer Chain

To keep us praying for one another as a church family, we send an email out weekly with requests for personal prayer from congregation members. If you would like to request to be on the prayer chain for any given week or to receive the weekly email if you don’t already, please get in touch with the office who will be in touch (you will also need to have completed a church GDPR form). Due to the personal nature of the requests, the prayer chain is not made publicly available, and we would not grant permission to receive it from someone not known to us.

Other opportunities to pray

Prayer themes

Subscribe to daily prayer suggestions from St John’s in the Prayermate app

Scan the QR Code, and PrayerMate should allow you to subscribe to our Prayer feed.

QR Code for St Johns Payer feed

Or you can subscribe to RSS feeds from many popular feed reader applications using the feed URL below.

https://www.prayermate.net/feeds/f4587d9c97e8c43fb37fb63ea7301f4e8d50e/rss

Download the PRAYERMATE app to receive weekly prayer themes or access them here.

Prayer Calendar

Receive daily prayer prompts in your calendar: please get in touch with the office for more details. Prayer during our services: All our services include a time of corporate prayer that a church member leads.

Prayer after the service

Opportunity to be prayed for by a member of the prayer team.  

Would you like us to pray for you?

Please feel free to submit a request to be shared in confidence with members of our leadership team, who will be praying for you.

Submit a Prayer Request. Please get in touch with the office for more details.

Prayer Calendar

Sunday, 28 Jun 26

Dear Lord, help me to learn the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, living in plenty or in want. Help me to remember that I can endure all things through the power of the one who gives me strength. Amen

Sunday, 28 Jun 26

We pray for ourselves this day, that we would treat Sunday as a day of worship and a day of rest. We pray too that the Lord would continue to send us enquirers to hear the Gospel preached, and that the Holy Spirit would enlighten them and empower us, both in our preaching and in our lives.

Monday, 29 Jun 26

Dear God\nThank you for your word and especially for what you are teaching us through it in the book of Phillipians. Would you help us to find contentment in you in every circumstance today. Help us like Paul to pursue learning this ability! Thank you for the love that exists in our church family. Please help it to continue to grow as we share in one another's joy and troubles.\n\nAmen

Tuesday, 30 Jun 26

Dear Lord God,\n\nWe continue to pray for a youth worker to be appointed at st. Johns. MAy they be someone who loves you and your word who is committed to coming alongside and discipling the next generation. Thank you for the faithful commitment of all those who serve our youth week in, week out. Thank you for the faith that we see in our youth, we ask you to protect, encourage and equip them, Lord.\n\nAmen

Wednesday, 01 Jul 26

Christ,\n\nWe look to you in the middle of this week. Help us as we love and serve our church. Thank you for homegroups and the friendships within those. Please help us as we support one another practically to keep going in the faith. Remembering your beautiful promise is Galatians 6:9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.\n\nAmen

Thursday, 02 Jul 26

Dear Father God,\n\nWe thank you for JAM out toddler group this term. Thank you for all the families and childminders who we have got to know. Please continue to build those relationships and draw them nearer to you. May seeds that have been scattered take root in good soil. We pray that we will have a good last session this week at our summer party.\n\nAmen

Friday, 03 Jul 26

Dear God,\n\nThank you for sustaining us this week. For your presence and loving hand to guide us. Please help us today to be coming to you regularly in praise, prayer, worship and thankfulness. May our lives with you not be constrained to a morning quiet time but would you help us to think of you more and more each day, would you be our first love.\n\nAmen