Prayer Line
St Columba's Prayer Line is made up of caring members who individually join together to pray on behalf of those who have requested prayer either for themselves or others. Requests are always treated confidentially and new "links" are always warmly welcomed.
Please use the form to below to make any requests for inclusion in the Prayer Line. |
St Columba’s Parish Church Prayer Group
In St. Columba’s we have an active, friendly and dynamic Prayer Group with a current membership of over twenty, including two “
foreign correspondents” – and you are welcome to join! All you need is discretion and a desire to support people in need in this way. Prayer requests come to the group by a variety of routes – for example, by personal request, e-mail, via the church web-site and arising from pastoral visits by our locum minister and elders. Prayer requests are not confined to members of the congregation as we are often asked to pray on behalf of people from the wider community, both national and world-wide. Members pray both individually in their own homes and collectively when the opportunity arises. Every week a newsletter and request list is circulated to each group member and a Prayer Service is held in the Mactaggart Chapel after the main service on the last Sunday of every month.Two or three times a year the Prayer Group have a sociable ”get –together” at which we eat a lot, business matters are discussed and updates on requests are shared. All requests are treated with the utmost confidentiality and anonymity is observed where required. |
The Prayer Group also gathers the requests from the Prayer Tree in the nave of the church and these are added to the weekly list and brought forward at the monthly service. We have found that many visitors to the church make use of the tree: Christians, people of other faiths and people of none, find this a way of making contact with things of the spirit.
In addition, the Prayer Group members engage in other forms of outreach. During Advent and Lent, for example, time is set aside for “open church”and an invitation is extended to anyone who wishes to light a candle, meditate, pray or just share time with members of the group. From time to time the Prayer Group members make representation to the decision- makers in our society about moral or ethical issues which may be of concern. Last year each Prayer Group member sent a Christmas card to a named person in one of the residential homes in the town and four members attended the Christmas party at Warrenpark Nursing Home, later joining others at the carol service at the Monastery in Mackerston
Place. We have also been known to hand out candy canes at the church fair and new ideas for spreading the message are always welcome!
If you would like to join our group, just contact me, Shena Jamieson, on 01475 673114.
How To Pray :
Talking to God is for everyone!
Whoever or wherever you are you can begin to pray. You do not have to wait for special teaching, a particular place or time or spiritual feelings. You can simply begin to talk to God and take it from there.
Read more at : Church of Scotland - Prayer
In addition, the Prayer Group members engage in other forms of outreach. During Advent and Lent, for example, time is set aside for “open church”and an invitation is extended to anyone who wishes to light a candle, meditate, pray or just share time with members of the group. From time to time the Prayer Group members make representation to the decision- makers in our society about moral or ethical issues which may be of concern. Last year each Prayer Group member sent a Christmas card to a named person in one of the residential homes in the town and four members attended the Christmas party at Warrenpark Nursing Home, later joining others at the carol service at the Monastery in Mackerston
Place. We have also been known to hand out candy canes at the church fair and new ideas for spreading the message are always welcome!
If you would like to join our group, just contact me, Shena Jamieson, on 01475 673114.
How To Pray :
Talking to God is for everyone!
Whoever or wherever you are you can begin to pray. You do not have to wait for special teaching, a particular place or time or spiritual feelings. You can simply begin to talk to God and take it from there.
Read more at : Church of Scotland - Prayer