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Planning your own service of healing & wholeness

Planning your own service of healing & wholeness. Planning a service. Place of safety – advanced warning – tell people what will be happening at the very start of the service & put them at ease! Place where people are open to the Holy Spirit Some people are afraid of what might happen

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Planning your own service of healing & wholeness

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  1. Planning your own service of healing & wholeness

  2. Planning a service • Place of safety – advanced warning – tell people what will be happening at the very start of the service & put them at ease! • Place where people are open to the Holy Spirit • Some people are afraid of what might happen at a service of healing and wholeness. • Levels of expectation and false expectation • Issues of touch – appropriate and inappropriate • Picking up the pieces – have someone on hand

  3. When? Who for? Congregation? Certain individuals? Parish? Gillingham air crash Nations?

  4. How we have done it? • Usually in a Eucharistic service context • Advanced warning! • ‘May the Lord meet you at your point of need’. • = brainstorm – what might people’s needs be? • Receive sacrament and wait • Male and female team to pray • Prayer ministry

  5. Structuring a service • It can be a normal service! • Nothing extra needs to be done. No special hymns, no oil, no bespoke order of service • It is just a normal Sunday service where perhaps the readings have given the occasion to do more than just talk about healing – cf John 4 The Samaritan woman (Sunday’s Gospel reading) • How many have heard a sermon on healing .....and no opportunity to do anything about it? • Prayer ministry at the end of a service.

  6. Creating a larger gathering • What if we are only 6 on a Sunday morning? • 5th Sunday benefice service • Deanery service – can be a good way of modelling something that can be transferred to the parishes.

  7. Full blown service of Wholeness and Healing Resources • CW Wholeness & Healing • Sample • CW ‘Black Book’ page 50 Thanksgiving for the Healing Ministry of the Church • Visual Liturgy • Creative ideas for Evening Prayer • A Wee Worship Book – Wild Goose (Iona) • Pastoral Prayers

  8. Healing of Community • Recognise healing and wholeness can be centred on individuals – but can be much more: • Intercession – praying for a hurting community • Intercession – praying for a hurting world Interceding for those in our parish and beyond – symbolic actions – candles on maps • Iona – touching the garment. • Creating Prayer Space: • ½ days of prayer 24/7 prayer Wailing Wall Circling

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