August

Monday 26

Norway: (includes Bergen, Drammen, Kristiansand, Oslo, Stavanger, Tromsö, Trondheim) Chaplain: Joanna Udal, Asst Chaplain: Martin Chirume, Readers: Iris Evans-Bjørnø, Susan Boyd.  Emeritus Reader: Priscilla Beck. Please pray for those newly baptised and confirmed; for those supporting the ministry in Trondheim and Bergen congregations; for outreach in Stavanger and for the 140th anniversary celebration of St Edmund's in Oslo.   Please join in thanksgiving for the Chaplaincy retreat and for the much-valued contribution of church musicians to our worship. We pray for our Children's ministry around the Chaplaincy and for more opportunities to engage with students and youth.     

Tuesday 27

Menton: Chaplain: Christopher Parkman. Please pray that our church community will be refreshed over the summer period, whether visiting others or hosting friends and family here. And please pray for the rentree, and particularly the younger families loosely associated with our church, as they start another school year and we seek to grow in our connections with and support for them.

Nice: (serves Vence) Chaplain: Jeremy Auld. We give thanks for the arrival of our new chaplain.

Wednesday 28 

Lanzarote: (Includes: Playa Blanca, Puerto del Carmen) Pray for encouragement for our small number of members and for our witness in Playa Blanca as well as St Laurence as a whole during a difficult vacancy period.  

Thursday 29

Arnhem-Nijmegen: Assistant Curate: Dorienke de Vries.  We pray and give thanks that we will soon welcome a newly appointed chaplain. 

Eindhoven: Chaplain: Harrison Chinnakumar Ephraim. We humbly ask for your prayers for the five people who recently received baptism. Among them, two have just begun attending the church. Please pray that they find joy in growing in the knowledge of God and that they become deeply rooted in their faith in Jesus. We also request your prayers for the volunteers in our church, that they may be encouraged and equipped well for ministry both within and outside our congregation. Additionally, we seek your intercession for our youth ministry, along with our dedicated youth leaders, with a special mention of Pamela. May our youth cultivate deep and meaningful relationships with Jesus through their involvement. Lastly, please remember our church in your prayers, so that we may continue to be a powerful and effective witness of Jesus in Eindhoven and beyond.

Friday 30

Archdeaconry of Switzerland: Archdeacon: Peter Hooper. Pray for Peter with his responsibilities for Switzerland alongside those he holds in France.

Basel: Chaplain: Caroline Throup, Assistants: Anne Lowen, Russell Hilliard, Reader: Nigel Spencer. We pray for our chaplain Caroline as she begins her ministry in Basel.

Berne: (Also serves Thun and Neuchâtel) Chaplain: Helen Marshall, Reader: Archana Jacob. Please pray for James Morgan who was ordained as self-supporting minister in June, and for his wife Lilian. We give thanks for all James and Lilian have already contributed to the life of St Ursula's and pray for this new phase of ministry. Please pray for our work with children and young people: for our Junior Church teachers, children and parents, week by week and we give thanks that the children's work has grown over this last year. Please also pray for a new monthly group we are starting for teenagers, that this will nourish the teenagers we already have in our church and draw more young people in.

Saturday 31

Las Palmas (Gran Canaria): (Also serves Playa del Ingles) Chaplain: David Brown. We give thanks for the people who have loved and supported the Chaplaincy over the years and for the new people of all ages who are joining our Church family. We pray that the worship may be enriched by the setting up of a choir and for all those who will be involved in the renovation of the Holy Trinity church building and surrounding gardens. We pray for the people of this beautiful island of Gran Canaria and that we may help to spread Love and Light especially to those struggling with life.

September

September

Sunday 1 

Give thanks and pray for our fellowship with the German Protestant Churches (Evangelische Kirche Deutschland) (Meissen Declaration). 

Diocesan Office in London: Locum Ministry Administrator: Emma Biaggi and for the Communications Team: Ruth Blanco and Susi Doherty.

Monday 2

Warsaw: (also serves Kracow, Gdansk) Chaplain: Kasta Dip. We are thankful for the arrival of our new chaplain, Kasta Dip. Pray for continued energy and wisdom as he settles into life in Poland and for a fruitful ministry.

Tuesday 3

Paris St George: Chaplain: Mark Osborne, Assistant Chaplain Jeffrey John. Assistant: Nicolas Razafindratsima. Give thanks for the way our Bicentenary celebrations have opened up new connections and strengthened old relationships. Pray for our witness during the Olympics and the upcoming Bicentenary events in September at the Embassy (24/9) and with Dr Diarmaid MacCulloch (28/9). Pray for the Chaplaincy Council and Finance Committee as we have to make decisions about our staffing going forward and pray for all those who lead areas of work here in the Chaplaincy that the summer break has refreshed and given renewed energy. Pray too for France – giving thanks for the renewed interest in the Faith and praying that we might live out liberté, égalité et fraternité as Christians to build God’s kingdom.

Paris St Michael: Chaplain Jay Colwill Readers: Andrew Wallace-Burnett, Debbie Orleach.  On the return to work and school (la rentrée), we pray for all those who are beginning life in Paris and seeking a spiritual home, for our welcome programme, the launch of our Alpha Course and our sermon series: ‘Soulful Paris’ and for the resumption of our children/young people and young adults programme and their growth in life and faith.

Wednesday 4

Madrid: Chaplain: Sally-Anne McDougall, Assistant Curate Solomon Uche Ike, Reader: Celia Paterson. Prayfor guidance to keep our church moving forward and also prayers for the new priest who will take us on the next stage of our journey 

Thursday 5

Haarlem: Chaplain: Bruce Elliot Rienstra, Pray for our Chaplaincy Council.  Pray for those who we have welcomed in the last six months and for all of us as we continue to look for new ways to reach out to others. 

The Hague: Chaplain: Michael Roden, Curate: Jonathan Halliwell, Assistant Chris Nicholls. Readers: Katherine Fortier, Jan Huber. Pray for the Ministry Team, our outreach ministry to international students in universities and colleges in The Hague and Delft, that we can be a spiritual 'home away from home', our work with children and youth, that it will grow and flourish and our provision of hot meals and warm, friendly atmosphere for unhoused and vulnerable adults at the Straatpastoraat Meal for homeless. 

Friday 6

Geneva: Chaplain: Daphne Green, Assistant Curate: Glen Ruffle. We give thanks for the gift and ministry of our curate, Revd Glen Ruffle, over the past year, for our Ordinand, Humberto Henderson and Reader in Training, Elizabeth Brown. We are grateful for our growing children and youth ministry and pray that more leaders and helpers may come forward to assist with this.  As we give thanks for growing links with UN agencies through Glen’s ministry with the Anglican Communion Office, we pray for our special UN services later this autumn. We pray for those preparing for Confirmation and in this season of Creationtide, we pray that as a church, we may deepen our commitment to care for the environment.

La Côte: (Includes Divonne-les-Bains (France)) Chaplain: Carolyn Cooke, Assistant Chaplain: Julia Chambeyron, Reader: Betty Talbot. We pray for Betty Talbot training for ordination. We give thanks for renewed direction and hope for our community. We ask for a listening spirit to discern how our founding story “Who is my neighbour?” can be embodied in our worship and service. Please pray for our children and youth, and how best we can support them in faith. Pray too for our involvement with supporting the local refugee community. 

Saturday 7

Leipzig: Chaplain:  Jonathan Haines. Please pray that those joining LEC would feel at home and make strong friendships. Pray that as a church family we would grow in dependence on the Lord and prayer. Pray the church family would be equipped and enabled to serve one another, knowing that even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and give his life as a ransom for many. Please also pray for those exploring ministry and their gifts.

Stuttgart: Chaplain: Antonio Ablon Lord Jesus, child of an earthly home, we pray for our chaplaincy our children and all who care for them. May they know you as their holy Lord, calling out fresh forms of service; and may they know you as a precious Saviour, sheltering in safety all who come to you. 

British Army Garrison Churches and their Chaplains.

Sunday 8

Pray for the Serbian Orthodox Church, for Robin Fox as Archbishop of Canterbury's Apokrisiarios to the Patriarch of Serbia.  Pray for the autocephalous Orthodox churches of Eastern Europe and the Baltic.

Pray for Ray Andrews (Spirituality Advisor) and our team of Spiritual Directors.

Monday 9

Bucharest: Chaplain: Nevsky Everett. Pray for the chaplaincy's spiritual growth and community outreach; its continued work with Ukrainian refugees; and for our relationships with our ecumenical partners, especially the Romanian Orthodox Church.

Sofia: Reader: Bob Hall. Pray for very small, faithful community, for our Reader Bob and our occasional visiting priests.

Belgrade: Chaplain: Robin Fox. Speaking God, you have told us that the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness and self-control. We thank you for those in our own chaplaincies who have shown this fruit in their lives, and we pray for our chaplaincy, asking that all those marked in baptism may show forth the same fruit in their generation.

Kyiv: Please pray for the people of Ukraine, for wisdom for political and military leaders; for people under shelling and for refugees; for the defenders of Ukraine, and for families waiting for them at home; pray for a just end to this war.

Tuesday 10

Pas de Calais: (Includes Boulogne-sur-Mer, Calais, Hesdin) Reader: Mary Wood. Pray for the future of the chaplaincy which is currently considering the option of attracting a House for Duty Chaplain.

Pau: Reader: John Errey. Pray for wisdom and encouragement for the Chaplaincy Council as they look to make decisions around the potential new Chaplain’s post and tackle the reconstruction of the damaged floor of their historic building.

Wednesday 11

Malaga: (Includes: Velez-Málaga, Salinas) Chaplain: Louis Darrant, PTO: Doreen Cage, Sheila Mitchell, Philip Williamson, Hilary Oakley & Mark Pudge. Pray for Louis in his role as Area Dean. Pray for the work of the Healthy Churches process that it would help bring clarity and inspiration to our mission, for the training of the new pastoral care team in our desire to care for every person in need of support and for efforts to build a stronger relationship with the English Cemetery of Malaga Foundation. We add our prayers for Louis in his role as Area Dean.

Menorca: Chaplain: Paul Strudwick. Pray for Santa Margarita, serving the island of Menorca, and for the chaplain in his additional role as Area Dean; for a resumption of worship at the west end of the island and for a renewal of family and youth ministry. 

Thursday 12

Rotterdam: Chaplain: Jenni Pridmore, Asst Chaplain: Markus Hafkenscheid, We pray for all war torn areas in our world; The needy, the homeless and the destitute and for Refugees, risking their lives, on a dangerous journey across the Seas to Europe. Help us to improve our relationship with the Mission to Seafarers, in the Ports of Rotterdam. Pray for your infinite wisdom, to lead and guide us, as we embark on a major Fundraising to finance our planned Restoration and Refurbishing work on the Church Building. Help us to reach and encourage the younger generation, and the new incoming Expatriates to fill your Church, to promote and increase our Discipleship and proclaim the Gospel to the inhabitants of Rotterdam and the surrounding Areas.

Missions to Seafarers Rotterdam and Schiedam: Chaplain: Dennis Woodward. Pray for all those who work at sea and protect them.

Friday 13

Lausanne: Chaplain: John Tomlinson, Reader: Angela Fall. Please pray for our new chaplain Fr John as he begins his ministry amongst us, and for our outreach to the English-speaking communities of Lausanne, including students, new arrivals, and visitors. We hope to develop our work with children and young people, and welcome more people to our building and garden.

Lugano: Chaplain: Pawel (Paul) Hrynczyszyn, Reader: Angela Mirani. We pray for our new Chaplain and him guiding our community in the future and give thanks for all that has been achieved in the past, giving thanks for all who care for the young in our community. We thank you for all the trees in our life, for creating the Earth and all living things and for the oxygen we breathe and the protection trees provide. 

Saturday 14

Vernet-les-Bains: We give thanks for the completion of the project, led by Archdeacon Peter, to recruit a chaplain for the three chaplaincies of All Saints, Hérault (based at St Pargoire), St George's, Vernet-les-Bains and St Michael's in the Gard. Please pray for their acclimatisation to both the Church of England and the South of France.

Versailles: (Also serves Gif sur Yvette (Chevry)) Chaplain: Benjamin Johnson-Frow, Reader: Sophie Manson. Pray for Dale, our chaplain, who has retired and returned to the UK. Pray for our new chaplain. Pray for Wardens Geoff and Alan and Reader Sophie that ministry and mission may thrive.

Sunday 15

Pray for the Russian Orthodox Church, Pray for the head of the Orthodox Department for external church relations, Metropolitan Anthony.  

Pray for the Persecuted Church worldwide and the role of Open Doors in providing information about this.

Monday 16

Moscow: We continue to pray that a new chaplain be revealed in the coming weeks. We pray for all projects planned in the coming months wherever they might be, that they may shine in the glory of the Lord.

St Petersburg: We thank God for good relations with the Lutherans, who are our hosts. Please pray for Maria, our church warden and for Annes who helps with services. We pray for growth in depth and numbers, and for faithful witness to the truth of Christ.

Tuesday 17

Poitou-Charentes: (Includes Champagne Mouton, Chef Boutonne, Cognac, St Jean d'Angély) Readers: Catherine Chambers, Geoffrey Cornwall, Richard Beech, Martin Sewell, John Matthews, Elisabeth Barnett, Carolyn Carter, Joan Mason. Pray for a mutually successful outcome between the prospective chaplain candidate and the Chaplaincy; the continued success of the “Funding Our Future” campaign and sufficient revenue for our needs; the welfare of our priests, lay ministers, worship leaders, musicians and congregation during the interregnum

Wednesday 18

Mallorca: (includes Palma-de-Mallorca, Puerto Pollensa) Chaplain: Ishanesu Gusha (Palma) and Bill Boyce (Puerto Pollensa), Readers: Adrian Peter Welsh, David Pattinson, Vicky Pacey, Kenneth Prudhoe. Pray for Richard Ofoegbu discerning a call to lay reader ministry, for the church as it seeks a safeguarding officer and for the church´s financial situation to improve.   

Thursday 19

Twente: (Weldam, Goor) Chaplain: Jacqueline Williams, Reader: Simone Yallop. We pray for eyes to see, ears to hear and a spirit of innovation, as we continue to seek new ways of expressing ourselves, as People of the Way, in this ever growing secular society. We pray for an empowering awareness of how our personal and local context is also a global context. We ask for specific prayers for our recent Summer Programme, may God bless our work and the people we reached out to this summer. 

Missions to Seafarers Vlissingen: Chaplain: Pascal Handschin (from the Dutch Reformed Church). Pray for the for the chaplaincy, the people and those who serve it. Grant them a sense of hope where there are challenges give a sense of vision and courage, bind them together in love and let them know laughter and moments of joy.

Voorschoten:  Chaplain: Matt Thijs. With the new school term, pray for our young church family members, as they settle into their new classes. We thank God for our children and youth and all who volunteer for teaching support and activities.  Pray for the appropriate level of teaching to reach the wide age range. 

Friday 20 

Montreux: (Also serves Villars-sur-Ollon) Give thanks that we are raising the profile of the chaplaincy in the community in various ways. Pray for Seth Barker in training for ordination. Pray for guidance as the church restoration project continues. Give thanks that we are building up the social life of the chaplaincy.

Vevey: (Also serves Château D'Oex,) Chaplain: Mark Fletcher. All Saints is a church with many long term members, but also many who are living in Switzerland for a Season, and September is a time for new arrivals (and some departures). Pray for us that we might be as welcoming as we should be, and that people might find a home and a new church family here, to get stuck in and find ways to serve and be grow, and also that we can do our job of being a sending church - commissioning people to serve God wherever they go next.

Saturday 21

Torrevieja: (Includes Lago Jardín, La Siesta, Los Balcones) Chaplain: Richard Seabrook. Giving thanks to God for the continuing dedicated ministry of Richard and for the growth in numbers to our services

Sunday 22 

Pray for the Church of Sweden.  Pray for the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (Turkey), for Patriarch Bartholomew and the autocephalous Orthodox Churches and their leaders. 

Monday 23 

Gothenburg: Chaplain: Alida Tollefsen-van der Lans. We thank God for the return of people to church post Covid. Bless us with a continuing growth and support from the people involved in order to work for your kingdom of justice and peace on earth and continue to inspire us with your love as we so often experience your presence with us. 

Stockholm: Chaplain: Nicholas Howe, Reader: Pamela Henderson.  Pray for Nicholas in his role as Area Dean.

Ankara: Chaplain: Arun John. We thank God for the new members who visit us every Sunday. We pray for those who don’t come regularly but always keep in touch with the parish through our mobile network.

Tuesday 24

Saint Pargoire (Hérault): Reader: Julie Johnson. We give thanks for the completion of the project, led by Archdeacon Peter, to recruit a chaplain for the three chaplaincies of All Saints, Hérault (based at St Pargoire), St George's, Vernet-les-Bains and St Michael's in the Gard. The new chaplain is due to take up this challenging post in July. Please pray for their acclimatisation to both the Church of England and the South of France.

St Raphaël: Chaplain: Tom Wilson. We ask prayers for our continued growth and outreach to a wide variety of people in our area on the Cote d'Azur. We ask for prayers for a resolution to the visa 90/180 regulations that has limited so many of our congregation's attendance since Brexit. We ask that our video service ministry to our "swallows" who cannot be
with us, or are house-bound in France continues to flourish and provide continued stewardship of our congregation's ministry.

Wednesday 25

Tenerife South: (Includes Playa de Las Americas, Los Gigantes, San Blas) Chaplain: John Poole, Readers: David Horton, Paul Ganney, Christine Elliott, Maryrissa Carter.  Lord Jesus, child of an earthly home, we pray for the chaplaincy, our children and all who care for them. May they know you as their holy Lord, calling out fresh forms of service; and may they know you as a precious Saviour, sheltering in safety all who come to you.  

Tenerife North: (includes Puerto de la Cruz, La Palma) Chaplain: Fiona Jack, Assistant Rachel Ganney. We give thanks for the generous legacy which will enable us to reach out into the community and grow our work with children and families through Messy Church. We ask your blessing on these endeavours. 

Thursday 26

Amersfoort: Chaplain: Grant Crowe, Assistant Chaplain: David Phillips. Pray for Ascension Anglican Church Hilversum. All Saints is supporting to plant this new church. Pray for fruitful outreach in the Amersfoort (by All Saints) and Hilversum  (Ascension Church) area -  that more people may get to know Jesus and that we are all ready to meet Him when He returns.

Utrecht: (Also serves Groningen, Zwolle) Chaplain: Ruan Crew Assistant Chaplain (Groningen): Sam Van Leer. As we plan our first Alpha course since the pandemic through the autumn weeks pray for the publicity and logistics, but above all for those attending, that lives will be changed and people will come to faith in Christ.

Friday 27

Zurich: (Also serves Turgi, Zug, St Gallen) Chaplain: Jacqueline Sellin. Pray for the reinvigoration of our work with children, youth and families, after the detrimental impact of Covid. Pray for the increasing ministry of our choir and music director. Pray for our worshipping community in seeking God's guidance during interregnum.

Swiss seasonal chaplaincies: Interlaken, Kandersteg, Mürren, St Moritz, Wengen, Zermatt. Pray for our seasonal chaplains

Saturday 28

Istanbul Christ Church: Chaplain: Ian Sherwood.  Prayers for confirmands, catechumens, ordinands being raised up by God and for those that are sick in our parish

Izmir: (Also serves Bornova, Didim, Mission to Seafarers Izmir) Chaplain: James Buxton.  Please pray for Fr James’ ministry with pilgrimage groups and pray especially for the Hong Kong Anglican Cathedral group who will be traveling to the Seven Churches with James in the last week of September. 

Sunday 29

Pray for Bishop Robert as he leads the diocese.  

Pray for the Bishop's Office in Brussels, Alan Strange (Bishop's Chaplain), Gail Wilmet (Bishop’s PA), Barbara Omoro (Appointments Secretary) and Caroline Gaumy (Administrative Assistant).  

Monday 30

Archdeaconry of Germany and Northern Europe: Archdeacon: Leslie Nathaniel. 

Eastern Archdeaconry: Archdeacon: Leslie Nathaniel. 

Christ Church Vienna: (Also serves Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Bratislava), Chaplain: Patrick Curran Asst Chaplain, Michael Dormandy, Robert Kinney, Reader Frank Sauer.  We pray for the shop kitchen and Christ Church shop volunteers, the new heating to be installed in the autumn, and for the scheduled thorough cleaning of the organ after too many years

City Kirche Vienna: Chaplain: Christian Hofreiter. Pray for the Chaplaincy, our people and those who serve us. Grant us a sense of hope; where there are challenges, give us a sense of vision and courage and bind us together in love