A simple way – among many – to recognize everyone’s ‘Monday Ministries’ is to include them in the Intercessions.

Glen Eira had me preaching recently about work, and at the end I drew up a list of ‘occupations’ with the congregation’s help, and prayed specifically for each category.

We mustn’t forget to include those in transition between different jobs, homemakers, the retired who do voluntary work, the incapacitated who’d like to be ‘gainfully employed’ but can’t be at present etc. etc. (I put some of those at the top of the list, and the professionals further down)…

And let us not forget those (of us) in specialized ministries who’d love their church to be involved in prayer for their work. They – sometimes with cross-cultural missionaries – are often forgotten.

Rowland Croucher

November 2005