We have produced a series of videos for each week in Advent and Christmas Day featuring the lighting of candles on an Advent wreath while praying for growth in our diocese.
One of the main diocesan priorities is investing in the renewal of around a dozen churches to ensure that each major area of population has at least one church with 150 people attending weekly, enabling them to support other local churches. This week let us pray for these renewal projects as we light the third candle on the Advent wreath.
Blessed are you, God of John the Baptist,
summoning your people to transformation and renewal.
Through the waters of the Red Sea
you led your people to freedom.
In the waters of the Jordan,
John proclaimed hope of a world made new.
Renew that hope in our day,
that we may see your power to change lives,
and transform communities in love and service,
as we await the joyful coming of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
Amen.
Take this wick, let it glow
for the one come to show
way of God, Christ to know:
baptized in the river,
new life to deliver.
Shine, O candles, shine,
burn with love divine,
to the night, comes the light
of the Father’s glory.
