Prayer Points from Online Prayer

Updated April 2024

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SDC Member Maria Rudolph invites all SDC Members to continue to pray using the prayer points that are being used each week during the Online Prayer sessions: 

• For the organisers of the  Lifting our Voices gathering on 27 April 2024 and coordinators of local and online hubs.

• Please also pray earnestly for each of the members and chairpeople of the eight working groups of the Way Forward project by name - see below for the list of names.

• Pray for the project management team and the members of CoB and GCB by name also - see below for the list of names.

• Let us uplift each and every one of these people in prayer.

• Let us pray for abundant blessing on each of these people, for protection of their health and that in every way they are sustained and strengthened by the Lord.

• Let us pray that in the discussions and work of each working group, common ground can be found in Christ and for there to be a total focus on Jesus.

• Pray for the fruit of the Spirit - love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control - to be evident in and through each one of these people and that they can see in each other foremost a fellow sister or brother loved by God and made in God’s image.

• Pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit and to give inspiration and insight to each one of these people.

• Pray that the doors can be opened so our church can find a unified way in which to embrace and support the calling and gifting of all our women and men, in the ordained and all other ministry spaces in our church.

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Project Team: Stella Thredgold, Tim Niewand, Tony Vong
 

Reference Group: David Altus (Chair), Timothy Pietsch, Shiron Dixon

Working Group 1 – Synod Agenda and Outcomes Planning
Chair:               Dr Gillian Heintze (Acting Chair for Rev Neville Otto)
Members:        Chris Antonini, Brett Hausler, Dr Nigel Long, Eloise Quinn-Valentine, Neil Bergmann
Working Group 2 – Theological Requirements
Chair:               Bishop Paul Smith
Members:        Rev Dr Stephen Haar, Kathleen Mills, Rev Fraser Pearce, Maria Rudolph, Rev Tommi Vuorinen, Rev Dale Gosden
Working Group 3 – Constitutional Requirements
Chair:              Dr Nigel Long
Members:        Bruce Arnold, Kim Baumeler, David Dreckow, Bruce Lockwood
Consultant:     Rev Ben Hentschke
Working Group 4 – Governance Requirements
Chair:              Michael Stolz 
Members:        Nancy Fox, Rev Paul Traeger, Rev Dr Mark Vainikka, Dr Cathryn Hamilton
Working Group 5 – Pastoral Care
Chair:               Gary Jewson
Members:        Joanne Chamberlain, Rev David Wear, Sue Westhorp
Working Group 6 – Candidacy
Chair:                ALC Principal (Rev James Winderlich)
Members:        Rev Ian Rentsch, Assoc Prof Lisa Schmidt, Kate Traeger, Assoc Prof Tanya Wittwer
Working Group 7 – Communications
Chair:               Trevor Ruthenberg
Members:        Annissa Hansen, Linda Macqueen, Kate Burke
Working Group 8 – Finance and Budgeting
Chair:               Mel Zerner
Members:        Ben Gargett, Brett Hausler, Leanne Latz

CoB: Paul Smith, Neville Otto,  Andrew Brook, Lester Priebbenow, Mark Vainikka, Peter Hage, Robert Bartholomaeus

GCB: Tim Stringer, Kim Baumeler, Paul Argyle, Charmaine Harch, Tim Wiebusch, Mel Zerner, Peter Zweck

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