Prayer Diary

Welcome to our Prayer Diary:

The prayer notes are divided into 4 weekly sections. This will allow us to be more thoughtful about each individual or topic.

If you have a specific person you wish to be added to the list please let Robin know. New entries will be included weekly for a whole cycle and then once every 4 weeks. Should situations change please also let Robin know – especially if people wish to be taken off the list.

Week 1:

In week beginning 9th March we pray for:
Holy Trinity and Mosaic; Clergy – Robin, Beth and Nicola, churchwardens Angela and Russell
Thames Hospice, we bring the work of the staff and volunteers, before God and give thanks for the many individuals and families helped by Thames Hospice.
Schools (Staff& Pupils): Harman’s Water, Holly Spring, Crown Wood, Ranelagh. We think of the learning of pupils and pray for their well-being and their families and homes
Bishop Steven, Bishop Mary, Archdeacon Stephen and all the diocesan and Archdeaconry staff.
News: The delicate situation in South Sudan, that war may not resume; our government for wisdom int the difficult choices that need to be made in both domestic and foreign policy.
We especially pray for:
Nicole and Freya Evered, Koi Wan, Steve Clark, Clint Frost (Debbie and Ellen),  Felix Dias
At Year’s Mind: Edith Napper, Clara Emily Smith, Thomas Dixon, Frederick Charles Faulkner, Maud Cheney, Norman Brown, Geoffrey Ian Smith, Jack Healey
Prisoner of Conscience: Fu Xuanjan, (46), CEO of a company which sells audio Bible players, who was arrested with others from her company on 2nd July 2020 for ‘illegal activities’. She was later sentenced to 6 years in prison and heavily fined. In April 2024 Fu became very unwell with uterine fibroids, a condition which persists and is worsening. Fu remains in Shenzhen Jiuwei Detention Centre.

Week 2

In week beginning 16th March we pray for:
Our Volunteers – those who help with maintenance morning, refreshments, welcoming, service leading, flower arranging, Children’s Activities, PCC
Refuge, we bring the work of the staff and volunteers of the charity Refuge before God, and give thanks for the many individuals and families helped by Refuge
The Hospitals, Surgeries and the Health Care Staff in our area, we give thanks for all the patients and families supported. We pray for the capacity crisis currently facing the whole NHS
Our Communities and Local Government, our Councillors and Local Authority staff .
Everyone struggling with the cost of living or having to find ways to live with poverty
News: 
We especially pray for: Sue Parker, David Foster, Oscar Taylor, Tania, Alex and Murron Garstang-Sivewright, Patricia Hughes, Ann Green
At Year’s Mind: Elizabeth Smith, Louisa M Matthews, Frederick Spragg, Herbert Hope, John Matthews, Tom Smillie, Keren Healey, Bruce Lack, Florence Harris, Jack Hunt
Prisoner of Conscience: Pastor Choi Chun-Gil a South Korean businessman and missionary was arrested and imprisoned in North Korea in December 2014 on espionage charges. In June 2015 the Supreme Court sentenced Choi to hard labour for life. He is being held incommunicado and has had no contact with his family since his arrest. 

Week 3

In week beginning 23rd March we pray for:
Our Children & Young people, Youth Group, Sparklers, children’s activities at Holy Trinity
Mission Aviation Fellowship: we bring the work of the staff and volunteers, before God and give thanks for the many individuals and families helped by MAF
Older people: Care Homes, Bickerton House, Clement House Residents, visitors and Families
The Bracknell Deanery Churches, their clergy and lay staff, especially our incoming Area Dean Revd Gareth Morley
The Bracknell Churches and the work done across the town by all the denominations who meet in Christ’s name.
Everyone affected by homelessness
News: The renewed aggression and violence in Gaza, and the seemingly endless stalls and uncertainties in the search for peace in Ukraine.
Especially we pray for:
Pippa Lloyd & family, Lucas Durand, Adelaide and Robert Bunker, Wendy Bennett, Jeff Dennis, Ann Warren
At Year’s Mind: Daphne Ada Bristow, Tom Healey, Mark Taylor, Rose Emily Butler, John Andrews
Prisoner of Conscience: Former nurse and mother-of-four Shagufta Kiran (40) who was arrested in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad in July 2021 after she was accused of forwarding a WhatsApp message that contained blasphemy. Since her arrest she has been imprisoned in Rawalpindi’s Adiala Central Jail and her case hearings were repeatedly adjourned until September 2024, when she was sentenced to death alongside 7 years imprisonment.

Week 4

In week beginning 30th March we pray for:
Our Parish: Holy Trinity and Mosaic, The Town Centre Mission, our administrators Linda and Sally
Everyone working in the local Police, Fire and Ambulance services. Those employed to manage our open spaces, collect the bins and who provide social and community services.
The many people who work for Charities and especially, in our local area Share and The Food Bank.
News: Everyone affected by the wildfires in South Korea, families and those whose lives have been lost; the worsening situation in Gaza as the ceasefire collapses, hoping for the fighting to pause again
Especially we pray for: Linda & Darren Edwards, Andy Taylor, Jean and Brian Sturges, Laura Chase, Rosalind Willatts 
We remember Don Maycock who died recently, before God and pray for his family and friends in their time of grief.
At Year’s Mind: Jennifer E Goodwin, Eileen Winifred Briggs, Charles Earnest Edwards, Elsie W Pantling, David Excell, Elsie Clarke, May Hope, Gary Kinsella
Prisoner of Conscience: Maria Ponomarenko, 46, a journalist with online media RusNews, was sentenced on 15th February 2023 to six years’ imprisonment under the Russian Criminal Code for a social media post condemning the Russian strike on the drama theatre in Mariupol, Ukraine, many civilians were sheltering. Maria is serving her sentence in penal colony IK-6, 175 km from Barnaul, southern Siberia, where she has faced ill-treatment, including placements in a disciplinary cell, solitary confinement and denial of adequate healthcare.