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June Lightwave Prayer Letter

Jun 7, 2025

Tagged: Prayer, Newsletter

"Come Holy Spirit"

On Pentecost Sunday, 8th June we celebrate the coming of God's Holy Spirit on the first disciples of Jesus with tongues of fire... and we celebrate that the Holy Spirit is still at work among us today - empowering and strengthening us to share the love of Christ. Lightwave are partnering in several "Catching the Fire" all-age worship events in different places round the county:

3pm at White House Farm, Great Glemham
4pm at Sunday Suppers, Place by the Water Shottisham
4pm at Holy Trinity Bungay
5pm at Encounter, St Christopher's Red Lodge

All welcome to join in. Please join us if you can.

THANKING GOD FOR THE WORK OF HIS SPIRIT...

At the Lightwave AGM (pictured below) we heard wonderful stories of the work of God's Spirit - people coming to faith; people working together across different churches, needs being fulfilled and new dreams coming to fruition
Rogation Celebrations at Wilby and Forest Church activities in the Four Rivers Benefice ( right).
Youth Work and a new Men's Group based on The Chosen films with Playford, Emerge, working with Kesgrave Benefice
Sew starting in our Forest Heath Hub (It looks like so much fun
Confirmations in Bungay (left) and youth choir and youth band continueing at the Hub
Growth of youth work in Chadbrook Benefice
Messy Church in Needham Market
An amazing Narnia project at Place by the Water in Shottisham

PLEASE PRAY FOR...

The Lightwave hubs and small groups - for more information go to www.lightwave.community/find-a-group. Especially pray for Rob Leveritt and the Alde River Benefice as they form a Lightwave group and undertake a season of listening for God's mission in their area.
Appointments - We are seeking to appoint a Director of Operations and a Youth Worker this month
The final evaluation of the Growing in God in the Countryside Project which takes place in June and July with the evauluators visiting on 22-24th June. This Project set up the Lightwave Community and so the Evaluation will be looking at Lightwave and what can be learned - for both here in Suffolk and the rural church elsewhere
Our Trustees and the ongoing work of discernment and planning for the Lightwave Community to contribute to and flourish within the wider diocese in the years ahead - plus ongoing work on financial sustainability. Especially pray with thanksgiving for Damian Chew, soon to bring his financial skills to the Lightwave Board of Trustees.
Place by the Water as the new Clergy Day Retreat Voucher Scheme starts this month. Under this scheme all CofE clergy in the diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich are entitle to a voucher for a free Retreat Day at Place by the Water, paid for by the Henry Smith Charity. We are so grateful for this grant. Pray that our clergy may be truly blessed by this.
Lightwave work for the national rural mission conference LoveRural which is being held at S Edmundsbury Cathedral in September. We are working to get the programme out in the first part of June.

Thankyou for all your prayers. It makes so much difference

Every blessing

Sally Gaze and Diane Grano