Please keep General Assembly in your prayers

General Assembly

Dear Friends,

General Assembly meets from this afternoon until late morning on Monday.  Representatives from all over the URC, joined by friends from partner churches from home and abroad, meet to worship, pray, listen, discern and discuss a range of issues.  You can see the reports and resolutions to be discussed in the Book of Reports here.  

I asked the Revd Samantha Sheehan, who is chaplain to the incoming Moderator, the Revd Neil Thorogood (he takes office on Monday) to write a prayer for us to use.  (I felt the current chaplain was rather busy with all the preparations for Assembly).  Samantha invites us to use this prayer over the next three days:
 

Holy God,

great is your name and great is you love.

As we prepare for the meeting of the General Assembly of the URC

be with us in our reading, 

guide us in our reflection

and go before us in our journeys

so that we may meet with you as we meet together.

In your holy name we pray.
Amen

With every good wish

Andy

The Rev’d Andy Braunston
Minister for Digital Worship