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Place of safety – advanced warning – tell people what will be
happening at the very start of the service & put them at ease!
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Place where people are open to the Holy Spirit
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Some people are afraid of what might happen
at a service of healing and wholeness.
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Levels of expectation and false expectation
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Issues of touch – appropriate and inappropriate
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Picking up the pieces – have someone on hand
Who for?
Congregation?
Certain individuals?
Parish?
Gillingham air crash
Nations?
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Usually in a Eucharistic service context
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Advanced warning!
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‘May the Lord meet you at your point of need’.
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= brainstorm – what might people’s needs be?
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Receive sacrament and wait
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Male and female team to pray
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Prayer ministry
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It can be a normal service!
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Nothing extra needs to be done. No special hymns, no
oil, no bespoke order of service
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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)
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How many have heard a sermon on healing .....and
no opportunity to do anything about it?
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Prayer ministry at the end of a service.
 What
 5th
if we are only 6 on a Sunday morning?
Sunday benefice service
 Deanery
service – can be a good way of
modelling something that can be transferred
to the parishes.
Resources
 CW Wholeness & Healing
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Sample
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CW ‘Black Book’ page 50 Thanksgiving for the Healing Ministry of the
Church
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Visual Liturgy
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Creative ideas for Evening Prayer
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A Wee Worship Book – Wild Goose (Iona)
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Pastoral Prayers
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Recognise healing and wholeness can be centred on individuals –
but can be much more:
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Intercession – praying for a hurting community
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Intercession – praying for a hurting world
Interceding for those in our parish and beyond
– symbolic actions – candles on maps
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Iona – touching the garment.
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Creating Prayer Space:
½ days of prayer 24/7 prayer
Wailing Wall
Circling
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