Focus for Prayer

August 2003

Friday 1 August 2003
Peru (Southern Cone)
Buckland Hospital, Dover & Royal Victoria, Folkestone Chaplain: Paul Kirby
OTHAM w LANGLEY Clergy: Andrew Sewell, David Bond, Chris Cook
Reader: Dot Hooker

Saturday 2 August 2003
Uruguay (Southern Cone)
ROMNEY DEANERY Area Dean: Roger Ellis Lay Chairman: John Rees Synod Secretary: Alison Knapp Treasurer: Elizabeth Orpin

Sunday 3 August 2003 Pentecost
GIVE THANKS for the extra-provincial
Episcopal Church of Cuba (Iglesia Episcopal de Cuba)
The Church of Norway (Porvoo) Diocese of Nidaros (Trondheim)
The Scottish Episcopal Church Diocese of Edinburgh
Diocese of Gloucester People and clergy of CANTERBURY deanery

Monday 4 August 2003
PRAY for the Chapel Royal, and for all chapels
Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Chaplains: Diana Petzsch, Susan Blade
ALDINGTON w BONNINGTON & BILSINGTON, LYMPNE w WEST HYTHE Clergy: Richard Love
Church School: Lympne Primary Head: Tim Hogg

Tuesday 5 August 2003
PRAY for religious peculiars chapels in hospitals or airports, on military bases or scientific research stations Kent Wing ATC Chaplain: Maurice Hewett Canterbury Howe Barracks: Vacant Dover St Mary-in-the-Castle Chaplain: Joseph Loveday Barracks Chaplain: Ashley Mitchell

Wednesday 6 August 2003 Transfiguration of Our Lord
GIVE THANKS for those who serve in Hospice ministry to the dying. For those who work as Friends and volunteers to support Hospital and Hospice ministry Ashford Hospice Chaplain: Geoffrey Walters

Thursday 7 August 2003
GIVE THANKS for Sacristans and those who serve on Altar Guilds Margate Hospice Chaplain: Stuart Piper
APPLEDORE w BROOKLAND & FAIRFIELD, BRENZETT w SNARGATE Clergy: Lindsay Hammond, Ali Duguid, Keith Fazzani, Shuna Body
Church Schools: Brookland Primary Head: Sue Hill Brenzett Primary Head: Tony Clarke

Friday 8 August 2003
THANK GOD for the work and ministry of Anglican Religious St Mary Abbey (Order of St Benedict) Bede House (Sisters of the Love of God) Community of the Sisters of the Church Society of St Francis

Saturday 9 August 2003
PRAISE GOD for the gift of love and for the capacity to love Canterbury Hospice Chaplain: Lizzie Hopthrow
DYMCHURCH w BURMARSH & NEWCHURCH Clergy: Roger Ellis, Peter Snare Readers: Michael Barclay

Sunday 10 August 2003 9 Pentecost
GIVE THANKS for the Province of Melanesia
The Church of Ireland (Porvoo) Diocese of Armagh
The Scottish Episcopal Church Diocese of Argyll and the Isles
Diocese of Guildford People and clergy of DOVER deanery

Monday 11 August 2003
Banks and Torres; Vanuatu (Melanesia)
St Martin's Hospital, Canterbury Chaplain: Robert Brown
WITTERSHAM w EBONY Clergy: Stella Halmshaw Readers: Malcolm Halmshaw, Barry Wright
Church Schools: Wittersham Primary Head: Judith Thornton

Tuesday 12 August 2003
Central Melanesia, Melanesia (Melanesia)
Thanet Mental Health Unit Chaplain: vacant
ST MARY'S BAY w ST MARY IN THE MARSH & IVYCHURCH Clergy: For a priest

Wednesday 13 August 2003
Central Solomons; Hanuato'o, Solomon Islands (Melanesia) Arundel Mental Health Unit Chaplain: Richard Podger
ORLESTONE w SNAVE, RUCKINGE w WAREHORNE & KENARDINGTON Clergy: For a priest, Patricia Fogden Reader: Andil Boothroyd

Thursday 14 August 2003
Malaita, Solomon Islands (Melanesia)
Lanthorne Court, Hospital, Broadstairs Chaplain: James Taylor
LYDD Clergy: Stephen Hardy Reader: Peter Firth, Susan Meredith

Friday 15 August 2003
St Mary the Virgin (Assumption/Dormition)
Temotu, Solomon Islands (Melanesia)
Benenden Hospital Chaplain: Christopher Smith
NEW ROMNEY w OLD ROMNEY & MIDLEY Clergy: For a priest Readers: Alan Cunningham, John Graves
Church School: St Nicholas Primary Head: Elizabeth Caudwell

Saturday 16 August 2003
Ysabel, Solomon Islands (Melanesia)
Chaucer Hospital, Canterbury Chaplain: David Naumann
STONE-IN -OXNEY Clergy: Lindsay Hammond

Sunday 17 August 2003 10 Pentecost
THANK GOD for the generosity of those who give abundantly of their time, talent and treasure for the spread of the Kingdom of God
The Church of Ireland (Porvoo) Diocese of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh
The Scottish Episcopal Church Diocese of Breeching
Diocese of Hereford
People and clergy of EAST BRIDGE deanery

Monday 18 August 2003
PRAY for the ministry of Acolytes
SITTINGBOURNE DEANERY Area Dean: Gilbert Spencer Lay Chairman: Christopher Gabriel Synod Secretary: Jackie Dyson Treasurer: Sue Broomfield Deanery Reader: Richard Carter

Tuesday 19 August 2003
PRAY for the ministry of Lectors
Victoria Hospital, Deal Chaplain: David Kendrew
MURSTON w BAPCHILD & TONGE Clergy: Brian Shersby Readers: Norton Murdock, John Port
Church School: Bapchild & Tonge Primary Head: Teresa Homan

Wednesday 20 August 2003
PRAY for Abbeys, monasteries and convents
Faversham Cottage Hospital Chaplain: Anthony Oehring
BREDGAR w BICKNOR, FRINSTED w WORMSHILL & MILSTEAD Clergy: Susan Austin
Church School: Bredgar Primary Head: Noreen Vinall Milstead and Frinsted Acting Head: Pat Newman

Thursday 21 August 2003
PRAY for Anglican Pilgrimage Centres Walsingham, Holy Island, Haddington, Ugandan Martyrs, Bernard Mizeki Center, Glastonbury, Llanthony, Chichester, Canterbury, St Albans, Winchester, Jerusalem, Durham, and all others
Hawkhurst Cottage Hospital Chaplain: Rodney Dreyer
EASTCHURCH w LEYSDOWN & HARTY Clergy: Francis Searle Reader: Geoffrey Harris
Church School: Eastchurch First Head: Pauline Shipley

Friday 22 August 2003
PRAY for families
Queen Victoria Hospital, Herne Bay Chaplain: Barbara Nicholson
MINSTER-IN-SHEPPEY w HALFWAY & QUEENBOROUGH Clergy: Gilbert Spencer, Gary Townsend Shirley Birch, John Knell Reader: Lynne Le-Masonry
Church School: St George's Middle Head: Paul Trigwell

Saturday 23 August 2003
GIVE THANKS for the Mar Thoma Syrian Church
St Saviour's Hospital, Hythe Chaplain: vacant
NEWINGTON ST MARY w HARTLIP w STOCKBURY Clergy: for a priest
Readers: Elizabeth Cox, Amanda Lane
Church Schools: Newington Primary Head: Pam Williamson Hartlip Primary Acting Head: Lesley Lawson

Sunday 24 August 2003 11 Pentecost
GIVE THANKS for the Church of the Province of West Africa
The Church of Ireland (Porvoo) Diocese of Limerick and Killaloe
The Scottish Episcopal Church Diocese of Saint Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane
Diocese of Leicester
People and clergy of ELHAM deanery

Monday 25 August 2003
St Bartholomew (Trans) Cameroon (Region Missionaire) (West Africa)
West View Hospital, Tenterden Chaplain: Anthea Williams
MILTON REGIS Clergy: Graham Green Reader: Jean Chamberlain

Tuesday 26 August 2003
Accra; Cape Coast; Koforidua; Kumasi; Sekondi; Sunyani; Tamale, Ghana (West Africa) Finance Committee
TUNSTALL w RODMERSHAM Clergy: David Matthiae Readers; Kevnie Growns, Pat Tatchell
Church School: Tunstall Primary Head: Kate Hutchings

Wednesday 27 August 2003
Guinea (West Africa)
Whitstable & Tankerton Hospital Chaplain: Amanda Evans
SHEERNESS Clergy: John Streeting

Thursday 28 August 2003
Liberia (West Africa)
UPCHURCH w LOWER HALSTOW w IWADE Clergy: John Lefroy Ron Partridge Reader: Rosemary Cowling

Friday 29 August 2003
Bo; Freetown, Sierra Leone (West Africa)
SITTINGBOURNE, HOLY TRINITY w BOBBING Clergy: Mike Resch Evelyn Williams

Saturday 30 August 2003
Gambia, The Gambia (West Africa)
SITTINGBOURNE, ST MICHAEL & ST MARY Clergy: Frank Kent Bernard Lane Readers: Laurie Mitchell, Victor Robinson

Sunday 31 August 2003 12 Pentecost
GIVE THANKS for the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia
The Church of Ireland (Porvoo) Diocese of Tuam, Killala and Achonry
The Lusitanian Church Diocese of Portugal
Diocese of Lincoln
People and clergy of OSPRINGE deanery