Guidance for Pastoral Prayer in Parishes
The Living Well can offer guidance for pastoral prayer for use in public worship such as:
- speaking on the Healing & Wholeness ministry – Sunday services included.
- supporting groups to introduce a healing ministry.
- encouraging existing ministry teams.
Jesus Christ is the healer, not we ourselves, but all lay people who offer pastoral prayer need guidance.
This would would include listening skills, the do’s and don’ts in prayer, confidentiality and safeguarding.
Discerning those who are called to serve in this ministry locally lies with the parish priest and PCC. The Chaplain of the Living Well as Diocesan Advisor in Healing and Wholeness can assist with this discernment.
Please click here for a document giving safeguarding guidelines for pastoral prayer.
Courses at The Living Well
– Healing the wounds of trauma
A 6 week Bible Society Course led by The Living Well Team on Tuesday afternoons on 2nd, 9th, 16th September and 7th, 14th, 21st October 2025, 1.30pm – 3.30pm
Suggested donation £40 for the 5 sessions. Booking is via the administrator at contact@the-living-well.org.uk..
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What is a wound of the heart? What can help our heart wounds heal? What happens when someone is grieving? How to remember God in times of suffering? How do we bring our pain to the cross? How can we forgive others?
– Christ’s Healing Ministry
A 5 week course led by Rev. Canon Lorraine Apps-Huggins and Ray Horton 18th March to 15th April 2025, 10am – 12.30pm.
Suggested donation £40 for the 5 sessions. Booking is via the administrator at contact@the-living-well.org.uk.
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The course offers a chance to discuss and learn together as we look at healing and wholeness in the Bible, in the Church, in our communities and in ourselves. Quiet reflection and prayer is included in each session.
Outreach days across the Canterbury Diocese
– Saturday 29th March 2025 in Sheppey, 10am-3.30pm
‘Flourishing in Hard Times’
A Healing and wholeness day retreat with The Living Well Chaplaincy and Team
With worship, teaching and an opportunity to receive prayer.
in Queenborough Church Hall, High Street, Queenborough ME11 5EP
Suggested donation £10-£15. To book, please contact the administrator at contact@the-living-well.org.uk.
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– Wednesday 9th April 2025 in Greatstone, 10am-3.30pm
A Healing and Wholeness Retreat Day with The Living Well Chaplaincy & Team
With worship, teaching and an opportunity to be listened to and prayed with.
At St Peter’s Church, Greatstone, Kent TN28 8RG.
Suggested donation £10-15. For more information and to book, please contact Les Carter on 01797 320108 or readerles@btinternet.com
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