Newsletter 20th July: Pastoral Visitors Course

At St Martin’s we have recently completed a Pastoral Care Visitors Course. This course was designed to give people confidence to visit someone in distress, to encourage them to pray for and with people and to learn how important it is to listen to others. Often we find it easy to visit our friends, but it is harder when it is someone we don’t know so well. We also want to be open to what God is saying to us at St. Martin’s. We are already fortunate to have so many kind people who visit and help others.

We intend to meet as a group from time to time to encourage each other and we also had a few practical ideas. We now have some specially designed cards to leave at a house if no one is in, letting someone know they are thought of and being prayed for. We will soon have some printed prayers to give out as well.

Please contact Simon, Lesley or Diane if you would like someone visited and we will do our best to send a member of the team.

You can request prayer for yourself or someone else by putting a prayer on the prayer board or by asking Simon to send out a message. You can also ask Lesley to put it on the prayer cards, which are distributed each month for people to pray for daily. You do not need to give details if you don’t want to, maybe just a name or even an initial. Many thanks to Lesley for leading and all who attended.

Diane