Edited by Neil Sterley
Photo Credits - Martin Garratt
Can you help at Prayer Space Week at Littlehampton Academy? 28 April – 2 May 2025
The TLA Chaplain, Paul Sanderson writes:
The Chapel team are looking for people to help support our students as they take part in creative and interactive prayer stations in the second week of the Summer term.
Your role would be to briefly explain the prayer station and then watch, observe and pray as they engage. Then after 3 minutes repeat with a new group of 3 or 4 students.
You would need to arrive at the school 10 minutes before your session to enable you to sign in. Each session lasts just 1 hour.
Please fill out the attached form to help me build a team!
TLA Prayer Space week 28 April - 2 May Volunteer sign up form
Thank you
Paul Sanderson MBE
Chaplain
The TLA Chaplain, Paul Sanderson writes:
The Chapel team are looking for people to help support our students as they take part in creative and interactive prayer stations in the second week of the Summer term.
Your role would be to briefly explain the prayer station and then watch, observe and pray as they engage. Then after 3 minutes repeat with a new group of 3 or 4 students.
You would need to arrive at the school 10 minutes before your session to enable you to sign in. Each session lasts just 1 hour.
Please fill out the attached form to help me build a team!
TLA Prayer Space week 28 April - 2 May Volunteer sign up form
Thank you
Paul Sanderson MBE
Chaplain
Prayer Vigil for Ukraine on 26 March 2022
What a wonderful, moving occasion it was! On Saturday, 26 March over 100 people gathered outside St. Catherine's Church in Littlehampton to hold a Prayer Vigil for Ukraine. A representative from every church led us in prayer.
I know we all have a great desire to do something to help the brave, suffering people of Ukraine at this time of desperate need. Many of us have given goods & money. Many have been praying in our homes & churches.
But there is something special about doing it together, so I'd like to thank Littlehampton Churches Together for organizing it, as well as all who attended-- and to thank God for the lovely weather, too!
Our next community event will be the Walk of Witness on Good Friday, which this year will begin at 11am outside the RNLI lifeboat station. ALL are welcome to join in.
Di Brown, Broadmark Lane, Rustington.
Member of the Baptist Church
I know we all have a great desire to do something to help the brave, suffering people of Ukraine at this time of desperate need. Many of us have given goods & money. Many have been praying in our homes & churches.
But there is something special about doing it together, so I'd like to thank Littlehampton Churches Together for organizing it, as well as all who attended-- and to thank God for the lovely weather, too!
Our next community event will be the Walk of Witness on Good Friday, which this year will begin at 11am outside the RNLI lifeboat station. ALL are welcome to join in.
Di Brown, Broadmark Lane, Rustington.
Member of the Baptist Church
The current list of Littlehampton Churches
as of January 2025, are:
All Saints, Wick (C of E) & St Mary Magdalene, Lyminster (C of E)
Arun Church
Baptist Church
Parkside Evangelical Church
St Catherine’s (RC) & the Franciscan Convent (RC)
St Mary’s (C of E)
Trinity Church
United Church (URC and Methodist)
The Society of Friends (Quakers)
All Saints, Wick (C of E) & St Mary Magdalene, Lyminster (C of E)
Arun Church
Baptist Church
Parkside Evangelical Church
St Catherine’s (RC) & the Franciscan Convent (RC)
St Mary’s (C of E)
Trinity Church
United Church (URC and Methodist)
The Society of Friends (Quakers)
Our Contacts :
St Catherine’s Parish Rep: Neil Sterley
[email protected]
Franciscan Convent Rep: Sr Susan Rudkin FMSL
[email protected]
Prayers that you may find useful
Prayer of Saint Richard of Chichester
Thanks be to you, our Lord Jesus Christ,
for all the benefits which you have given us,
for all the pains and insults which you have borne for us.
Most merciful Redeemer, Friend and Brother,
may we know you more clearly,
love you more dearly,
and follow you more nearly,
day by day.
Amen.
The Prayer of Saint Francis
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.
Thanks be to you, our Lord Jesus Christ,
for all the benefits which you have given us,
for all the pains and insults which you have borne for us.
Most merciful Redeemer, Friend and Brother,
may we know you more clearly,
love you more dearly,
and follow you more nearly,
day by day.
Amen.
The Prayer of Saint Francis
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.