Dear *|FIRSTNAME|*,
This Sunday in our worship we will be exploring an inspiring prayer written for the early Christian community in Ephesus. (Ephesians 2.11-end) I suggest we use it to help us pray for ourselves, for those we love, for those we know who are struggling and, for example, those taking part in the Tokyo Olympics. Let’s also use it to pray for members of our community who are moving away. On Sunday we will be saying goodbye to our youth leader, Emily Reid, who is heading to London School of Theology in the autumn, and to Jane and Adrian Robinson who are going on a two-year sabbatical to the UK.
You might even like to try kneeling to pray:
“14For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name.
16I pray that, according to the riches of his glory, he may grant that you may be strengthened in your inner being with power through his Spirit, 17and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love.
18I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
20Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine, 21to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.”
Carolyn | 
