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
– Christ’s healing Ministry
A 5 week course led by Rev. Canon Lorraine Apps-Huggins and Ray Horton in April-May 2024 and in 2025 (dates to be confirmed).
Suggested donation £35 for the 5 sessions. Booking is via the administrator.
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.
A leaflet/poster for the 2024 course can be downloaded here.
– Healing the wounds of trauma
A 6 week Bible Society Course led by The Living Well Team on Tuesday afternoons from 22nd October 2024
Suggested donation £35 for the 5 sessions. Booking is via the administrator.
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?
A leaflet/poster for the 2024 course can be downloaded here.
Outreach days across the Canterbury Diocese
– Saturday 20th July in Canterbury “Faith, Hope, God and ill Health”
When we are poorly or caring for someone who is sick, thoughts about God can be a help or a hindrance: how do we focus our thoughts upon God well?
A day (10am-3.30pm) led by The Living Well Chaplaincy with worship, teaching and an opportunity to be listened to and prayed with.
At the St Paul’s Parish Centre, Church Street Canterbury CT1 1NH.
Suggested donation £20. Booking is via the administrator or Eventbrite.
A leaflet/poster for the day in Canterbury can be downloaded here
– Wednesday 9th October in New Romney “How God can help us with changes in our Community”
A day (10am-3.30pm) led by The Living Well Chaplaincy with worship, teaching and an opportunity to be listened to and prayed with.
At All Saints’, Jefferstone Lane, St Mary’s Bay New Romney TN29 0RU.
Suggested donation £15. Booking is via the administrator or Penny Lowe at pslowe9@gmail.com.
A leaflet/poster for the day in New Romney can be downloaded here.
– Saturday 2nd November in Ashford “Faith, Hope, God, Grief and Loss”
Loss is as much a part of life as gain; it is varied and affects us all deeply and differently. On this day we bring honest recognition of our losses as we seek to gain comfort.
A day (10am-3.30pm) led by The Living Well Chaplaincy with worship, teaching and an opportunity to be listened to and prayed with.
At St Mary’s Church, Willesborough, Ashford TN24 0YR.
Suggested donation £20. Booking is via the administrator of Eventbrite.
A leaflet/poster for the day in Ashford can be downloaded here.