New Look!
Howdy!
We have a new look to the prayers in the blog!
The publication of prayers for NCYC will continue to be a feature of this Blog and we would like you to pray this prayer for NCYC09 or at least to use it as a tool to help you in your prayers for NCYC09. You can copy this and use as much as you like. Furthermore, if you have a special issue or need or group or team for which you would like to have prayers published, please let the Chaplain to the Management Committee, Rev Ron Townsend (townserh@mlc.vic.edu.au) know and include a couple of dot points which might be included in the prayer.Here is the first prayer:
Lord
We are struck dumb by the immensity and the wonder of your love for us. Throughout time you have revealed your love for all human beings and for your creation. This love is precious to us Lord, it is the ‘stuff of life’ and we feel strengthened and uplifted by it, even when matters are not going well for us.
We thank you for your love which is revealed to us through your youthful followers, especially in young people (and not so young people, now!) who have attended past NCYCs. May your gift of love in them continue to strengthen and uphold your church and the world.
Open the hearts of young people to hear your call to follow your Son. In particular, Lord, we pray for the young people coming to or considering coming to NCYC 09; that they will discover in this event, in the life of your church, the power of the love of Jesus in their lives.
Bless all who are working to make NCYC 09 happen. Especially we ask your blessing upon those staffing the NCYC09 office: Rohan, Kim, Mick, Sam and the interns.
These prayers we pray in Jesus name
Amen