Our Prayers
Online Prayer
Online Prayer takes place each week on
MONDAY
The Online Prayer group for the unity of the LCANZ and the ordination of both women and men, is led by SDC Member Maria Rudolph.
We need YOUR prayers for this transition time in our church!
As we are preparing women for ordination and learn to walk with each other in peace and unifying love as LCANZ, we will undergird this process with prayer.
Please join our brand new weekly prayer group:
Note the times below
To join, click the Teams link HERE
Mondays
WA 12.30pm
NT - 2pm
QLD - 2.30pm
SA - 3pm
VIC - NSW - ACT - TAS -3.30pm
NZ - 5.30pm
Prayer Requests
If you have prayer requests, please email them to Maria HERE
If you have problems joining, please also email Maria HERE
Latest Prayers
Prayer Points
(Updated 28 January 2025)
Please pray using the following points:
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Loving God, we praise you for the women who have come forward to enter the pathway toward ordination as pastors in the LCANZ. Be with each one of them as they attend classes, work on assignments, and as they are assigned to congregations for supervised fieldwork and vicarage in the coming months and years.
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Thank you that a number of women are in the final stages of assessment by the LCANZ in the lead up to their ordination. Make their pathway smooth at this final stretch and be their guide and wisdom as their ordinations are being planned and organised.
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Be with the many women across our church who are still discerning what this change toward the ordination of women and men means for them and their futures. You are already there, preparing the way. Grant peace, discernment, wisdom and patience to all whom you are nudging by your Holy Spirit with a desire to explore what this now means, and make the way forward clear for each one.
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Be with those in our church who have longed for the ordination of women for so long and who are now filled with uncertainty, frustration and grief. Let your joy be their strength. Help the LCANZ to find a way to hold dear those who have already died or for whom this change has occurred too late in life.
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We pray that you wrap your arms of love, comfort and care around all our sisters and brothers in the LCANZ who feel hurt and troubled by the YES to women’s ordination. Heal and cheer all of them and lift their eyes only toward you so you can be their strength and so that your love and assurance can fill them. Fill each one of us with compassion and empathy for those who are hurting over this and help us be wounded healers to them, as we follow in the steps of our Wounded Healer. Help us to walk together in Christian unity.
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We bring before you those men of our church who are preparing to be pastors’ husbands. Strengthen them to be men after your own heart and get our church community ready for them and their gifts. Help them as they support and nurture their wives in pursuing their calling to the ordained ministry.
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Provide for us all safe and grace-filled spaces throughout our church.
We pray all this in Jesus’ name. Amen.
"Loving Lord Jesus,
we praise and thank you that you have gathered us here together
before your throne,
for such a time as this.
Be our Shepherd, be our Guide, Be our Sustainer.
Please open the doors that need to be opened
so that the ordination of women will be welcomed in the LCANZ,
and bring this about in a way that brings glory to You
and blessings upon every member of the church
and the world around us.
We ask all these things in Your name.”
Want to contribute?
We would love to include your prayer and praise points specific to the ordination of women and gender equity, and the healing of our church. Send us an email or via the 'Prayer and Praise points' form below.
Prayer & Praise Points
Your praise and prayer points are very welcome!