Carnmoney Church
Prayer Meetings

November 2026

To our dear church family and friends,

November has brought us into the privilege of  - "We will remember them".  In both WW1 and WW2, men and women made a collective effort  to stop global aggression and to restore lasting peace - Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called the children of God.

A reflection was given about rememberance and of a lady called Mary P. Waterfield, who served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) as a driver.

A song was sung called - Make me a channel of Your peace - You can hear Katherine Jenkins singing this beautiful song by clicking on the song title.

Andy taught us about another prayer method and in his own words - We looked at how we could pray with beads for people. To help us focus our prayers everyone was given a bracelet of beads and we used it to pray for our families, people in our congregation, for those we would like to see to come to Christ, world leaders etc.  We found this so helpful in focusing our prayers.

We then went into prayer for the prayer requests for our parish, which were:-

• Give thanks for all answered prayer

• Heather's work

• Newtownabbey Clergy time away from 9th to 10th November

• Natalia's work

• Brigades Enrolment  Family Service on 15th November

• Lottery application process

• Nursing Home Ministries

• LED lighting project

• Preaching series on God's book

• Faith Factory - giving thanks for all our children and hoping more will join us

• Remembrance Sunday

• Confirmation Course starting in February

• Olo Diocese update

• Alpha Course - people growing in their faith

• Assistance for Joyce 

• Abbey Centre outreach - some development happening

• The Craft Fair on 21st November

So, could we pray:

Our Lord in Heaven, may we continue to be active peacemakers.

Please let us carry our relative's and friend's torch forward by actively creating harmony in our home, work place and our churches.

Please guard our hearts for a peaceful tomorrow.  Amen

The next prayer meeting in on Tuesday 1st December at 2pm in the Church Hall Memorial Room.

Love and blessings from us all.  Frances Leathem

September 2026

To our dear church family and friends,

September saw our Church Prayer Meeting go into its first year and what a wonderful year we all had, in receiving blessings , learning together, praying and seeing prayers answered.

The beginning of Autumn saw us having teaching from Andy on prayer.  We were given a verse to take with us into silent prayer which was wonderful to us.

A reflection was given, called 'we are safe in His hands' being inspired from John 10 verse 29 which reads:-

'My Father who gives them Me is greater than all and no man is able to pluck them, meaning His sheep, out of our Father's hand.'

There followed two inspiring hymns and then it was straight into the prayer requests which were -

• Heather Seeds starting work

• Lottery application process

• Nursing Home Ministry

• LED lighting project

• Preaching series on God's book

• Thanks for busy builders

• Faith factory starting 13th September

• Alenka 's social media training

• Get together 12th September

• Natula and her work with schools and plug Alpha course starting 9th September

• Financial assistance for to help Joyce

• Groups starting up again

• Funding application

• Trip to Londonderry 21st to 27th Sept

• Abbey Centre outreach

Can we just leave with a prayer -

Our Heavenly Father, thank you Father as your sheep, we

can come to you to pray feeling relaxed and confident knowing

that you will listen to us.  Thank you that Carnmoney Parish belongs

to you and that no power is strong enough to pull us away from you.  Amen.

The next prayer meeting in on Wednesday, 7th October, at 2pm in the Memorial Room in the Church Hall.  A warm welcome is there for you, because this meeting belongs to you also.

Love from us all, Frances