Diocesan Cycle of Prayer

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Pioneering in the diocese
4th October 2026

Please join us for the Pioneer Open evening at 7pm on Tuesday 6 October in The Gathering, Belfast.

  • Tullycarnet outreach has entered a new season, with a new name, Stormont Community Church; a new location, St Molua’s Church; and a new leadership team comprising Captain Laurence Bellew, Dr Millie Bellew, and Arthurage Abureni. Please pray for them as they lead this young worshipping community and seek to reach the Ardcarn and Tullycarnet estates.

  • Pray for Elaine Jones as she begins training as a Church of Ireland Pioneer Minister. Please also pray for the leadership team of Moneyreagh CC as they discern how to expand ministry and outreach within Ballygowan.

  • Keith and Sharon Porter have recently taken over the leadership of Braniel Community Church in East Belfast. Please pray for them as they seek to build relationships with churches and schools in the neighbourhood and to connect with people in local estates.

  • Please pray for Tim Burns and Julie Brown as leaders and all the wonderful volunteers in the Suitcase Project as they seek to welcome, serve, and minister to newcomers to East Belfast as well as supporting diocesan churches in this endeavour.

  • We are still awaiting planning permission for the change of use and to erect signage at the commercial unit used by The Grove, Newry. Please pray that God would open the way and that any remaining issues would be resolved smoothly.

  • Pray for all who are pioneering in church plants and other ministries across Down and Dromore, that they would know God's wisdom, strength and encouragement as they seek to serve him and reach others with the good news of Jesus.

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Team visits to Chile
11th October 2026

Bishop David will lead a diocesan team of six to our link Diocese of Santiago (15-28 Oct). Revd Mark Lennox will lead a Donaghcloney Parish team to Igelsia de la Resurrección in Santiago (1-14 Oct). Both teams will minister in a variety of settings.

  • Please pray for safe and smooth travel and for the health, safety and unity of the teams.

  • That the language difference (English and Spanish) won't be a barrier to sharing the Gospel and for open hearts to respond to the message.

  • Pray for Bishop Juan Esteban and his diocesan team

  • Pray for the Santiago Diocesan Youth Camp (similar to Summer Madness) and the Chilean Provincial Synod. Revd Mark Lennox will preach at both.

  • Pray for the staff and students in CEP (Theological Seminary in Santiago).

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All Saints' Tullylish
18th October 2026

Minister-in-charge: Robert Smyth

In the coming season, we intend to examine Matthew 6:9–13 at our monthly All Age Service and we commend it to the cycle of prayer.

  • Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
    We long to be truly children of God and to rejoice in the grace of adoption.  We want to know God the Father personally, through God the Son, by the work of God the Holy Spirit.  We desire that the Holy name of God would be honoured in our homes, our church, our schools, our workplaces, and our community.

  • Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
    We ask for more of God’s perfect, loving, and just way here on earth.  We ask that His rule and reign would be known here as it is in His heavenly kingdom, where there is complete and true peace, justice, kindness, and truth. 

  • Give us this day our daily bread,
    We ask that God grant us more of what we need rather than what we want.  We ask for blessing on all who are hungry, lonely, worried, or in need today, and we ask that each of us would understand our greatest need…

    and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
    We rejoice that Christ has paid our debt in full on the Cross.  We ask for humility to recognise that our greatest debt is our sin and that our greatest need is to be forgiven. We ask to grow as a forgiven people who forgive; a people saved by grace who are gracious.

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St Mary's, Ballybeen
25th October 2026

Rector: Jim Cheshire

  • Give thanks for 60 years of faithful worship, mission and ministry in our community through the life of St Mary’s.

  • Give thanks for the transformation we have seen in the lives of those who have encountered Christ through our ministry over the years.

  • Pray for unity of purpose as we continue to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and that we will continue to see not only lives but also our community changed by the power of the Holy Spirit and the love of God.

  • Pray that God would raise up new leaders to help grow our capacity and nurture growth, particularly through our families ministries, and for God’s provision for the employment of paid staff.

  • Pray for those coming along to Alpha, that they would encounter Christ.

  • Pray for Life Group leaders as they are trained and recommissioned for a new season.

  • Pray that we continue to experience a deep sense of God’s presence as we gather, and that by God’s grace the next 60 years of our life together would be greater and even more fruitful for Christ’s Kingdom than the years before.

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