Revd Suzanne Nockels, who is serving as President of the Congregational Federation this year, leads a time of prayer and devotion to mark Prisoners’ Sunday and the start of Prisons Week. Revd Nockels is a Congregational Federation minister, who currently serves as a church minister in Sheffield and as a hospital chaplain. (These prayers have been shared from a regular time of prayer on Friday lunchtimes, led by members / pastors of Congregational Federation churches.) Please feel free to share with your church fellowship and across your network. Let us pray…
To learn more about Prisons Sunday and Prisons Week and to join us in prayer over the next week, click HERE. Prisons Week aims to encourage prayer and awareness of the needs of prisoners and their families, victims of offenders, prisons staff and all those who care, reflected in the Prisons Week Prayer offered throughout the week:
Lord, you offer freedom to all people.
We pray for those in prison.
Break the bonds of fear and isolation that exist.
Support with your love prisoners and their families and friends,
prison staff and all who care.
Heal those who have been wounded by the activities
of others, especially the victims of crime.
Help us to forgive one another.
To act justly, love mercy and walk humbly together with Christ
in His strength and in His Spirit, now and every day.
Amen.
(cover photo courtesy of Milada Vigerova at Unsplash)