APRIL 2009


SHOP has continued to meet every Friday from 10:00 - 14:15 at Crossway, Clinton centre, Seaford.   We have been blessed by having excellent worship leaders, Flic. and Olli from St. Thomas More Church and Matthew.   We continue to meditate with Harp and Bowl, worship and prophetic singing most weeks, between prayer for the locality and prayer for the nations.   Mike and Margaret Kerry from SBC join us to participate in  this.

We are blessed to have participants from four churches most weeks.    We start with an hour of worship and a short word from Peter, relating to prayer and intercession.   We continue to bless Seahaven in prayer, with thanksgiving, with supplications for the Mayor and Town Councillors, the youth, Elizabeth Morgan-Jones prays for the schools, Ruth Papworth prays for the streets, there is also prayer for the local businesses, including Waves and Living Words and voluntary organisations, Emergency services,  NHS,  Beachy Head Chaplaincy, CTIS, Peter often prays for the clergy and church unity initiatives and we also pray for safety for Newhaven and Shoreham harbour and Gatwick airport.    In the afternoon, we pray for the U.K., using information from the Christian Lawyers Association and Prayer Alert, from the Birmingham Prayer Centre.   This is followed by a time of prayer for the nations, Israel, India, Africa, Afghanistan and Iraq, Cambodia and France, to name but a few.

We have been blessed to have special visitors who lead in prayer from different organisations.   In March, we had Penny Ianson, from PRNTN, who brought a prophetic oversight as well as words for specific individuals.   We were also privileged to have three members of the Beachy Head Chaplaincy, who shared about their work, and Daniel and Suzy, who spoke of their trips to Zimbabwe, their return next month and of the needs of the people of Zimbabwe and of their work in Mozambique.    Daniel also shared a short teaching on intercession.   Suzy led an hour of worship.  Pat Case attended on a previous week and informed us about the door-to-door initiatives at Chyngton.   Lesley Kennett shared details of prayer needs for the local Primary Care Trust.   Throughout the year we have also been privileged to have visits from Dr. Richard and Prilla Rowlands, thanking us for our prayers for Rwanda and Richard Smart who spent some time in Uganda.   Last year we had a visitor from India, informing us of the valuable work of FEBA and Sarah Oakes also attended, informing and resourcing our prayers for France.

Latterly, we have had an artist, Sarah, join us, who encapsulates the theme of the day using various media.    We are blessed to have some 12 - 20 people who visit regularly and are most grateful to David and Pat who set up and put down all the resource materials and p.a. equipment every week as well as administering the finances.   (Worship leaders are given a small honorarium).   We are also grateful to Crossway for the hire of the building.   We are most grateful to God Himself for His Presence and the privilege of being co-labourers with Jesus, who "ever lives to make intercession for us."   Heb. 7:25.    If you are free to attend any Friday, we would love you to come and join us.