News and Events
CROSS OF NAILS prayers:
Friday, 4 November at 12.00 in St Saviour's Church, Brooke Street, Claremont
CHAPELRY LUNCH
Sunday, 6 November 2011: Braai at the Stone Cottages. Fires will be ready at 11.00. Please bring meat, drinks, plates, glasses etc etc. For more information please contact Derrick Burns ( 021 674 1647)
400 YEAR CELEBRATION OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE
Father John Suggit preached on Sunday, 30 October 2100 to commemorate this milestone. He gave us a most stimulating and enlightening talk on the background of the writing of this version of the bible that has been used world-wide for 400 years. Joan Wigram followed up with an overview of her study on the KJB and Jenny Wilson organised a display of old bibles. These were brought by congregation members and it was very interesting to read the history of different families in the front covers and to see notes made by readers over the years.
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FUNDRAISING EVENTS
ORGAN RECITAL – 21 OCTOBER
This was a beautiful evening when we were entertained by organist, Alan Clapp. He is a very well known and extremely accomplished organist and we were honoured that he gave us such wonderful music. Before the recital, drinks were served in the new paved area and very good time was had by all. Thank you to Andrew Wilson for organising this event.
Prayers for the month
A prayer of adoration
Lord, it is my chief complaint
That my love is weak and faint
Yet I love Thee and adore
O for grace to love Thee more. Amen.
A prayer for spiritual growth
O Holy Spirit, giver of light and life,
impart to me thoughts higher than my own thoughts
and prayers better than my own prayers,
and powers beyond my own powers,
that I may spend and be spent in the ways of love and goodness,
after the image of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.
A prayer of thanksgiving
Dear Lord, we thank you for the splendour of the whole creation,
for the beauty of this world,
for the wonder of life and for the mystery of love.
We thank you for the blessing of family and friends,
and for the loving care which surrounds us on every side.
We thank you for setting us tasks which demand our best efforts,
and for leading us to accomplishments which satisfy and delight us.
We thank you also for those disappointments and failures
that lead us to acknowledge our dependence on you alone.
Above all, we thank you for your Son Jesus Christ,
for the truth of his word and the example of his life,
for his steadfast obedience, by which he overcame temptation,
for his dying through which he overcame death
and for his rising to life again,
in which we are raised to the life of your kingdom.
Grant us the gift of your Spirit,
that we may know Christ and make him known,
and through him, at all times and in all places,
may give thanks to you in all things. Amen.
(from the prayer book of the Episcopal church)
A prayer for those who are sick
Lord Jesus Christ, Good Shepherd of the sheep,
you gather the lambs in your arms and carry them in your bosom:
we commend to your loving care all who are sick.
Relieve their pain, guard them from all danger,
restore to them your gifts of gladness and strength,
raise them up to a life of service to you.
Hear us we pray for your dear names sake. Amen.
A prayer for Africa
God bless Africa
Guide our children
Guard our leaders
And give us peace
For Jesus Christ's sake. Amen.
