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, 01 Feb 26

Dear Lord: I am ready to follow you courageously today but give me the strength I need to do this. Help me not to forget you nor turn from your ways, but that all I do would be done by your power and for your glory. We ask for the services this week to be so helpful for people as you build faith, build your church, and reach out to others. Amen.

Monday, 02 Feb 26

Give thanks for yesterday’s teaching from Nick and Nigel on the Wealthy and the Widow and pray that we may all learn from this passage and apply it in our daily lives. Pray too for today’s Connections Praise and this evening’s St John’s Online meetings.

Tuesday, 03 Feb 26

Pray for our troubled world, for all the places in it riven by strife and unrest. Pray for peace, not only in Ukraine and Iran, but in all those places that go unreported but where suffering is great. Pray too for the next moves to establish the way forward in Gaza.

Wednesday, 04 Feb 26

The Lent Course God's Big Picture starts 4th of March. Pray for the preparations, for good attendance, good teaching and for those leading the course.

Thursday, 05 Feb 26

Pray for Roxi and her volunteers as they host increasing numbers of children and parents/carers and grandparents at JAM. Give thanks for JAM’s success and pray that those coming may want to find out more about Jesus through our church services.

Friday, 06 Feb 26

Pray for the Church of England as it prepares to move forward with the new Archbishop of Canterbury and in particular regarding its direction of travel related to Living in Love and Faith, that there might be a greater desire to adhere to biblical truth.

Saturday, 07 Feb 26

Pray for our leadership team at St John’s and in particular Nick as he prepares for tomorrow’s services and his teaching, Mark 13 - Forewarned and Forearmed.