Prayer for Renewal

Faithful God, giver and renewer of life and source of all blessing, with hearts full of hope we look expectantly forward as we undertake RENEW in our parish and in our Diocese, asking what it means to be church in this day and in this age. While much has changed around us, your enduring and sustaining love continues to support and direct us along new paths. Empower us each with a vision for the future, giving us eyes to see where we are, where we have been, and what opportunities for service surround us as the face of Huron is transformed in wonderful and diverse ways. Taking the gifts we bring, transform them by the power of your Holy Spirit that each parish encountering their particular community might take the good news of the Gospel to where it is needed, that youth might be impassioned, that leaders might be empowered, that reaching beyond our own diocese, we might with others participate in larger ministries of care, justice and compassion. We commit ourselves to RENEW and to renewal in our lives and in our communities, in the name of Jesus, through whom all things are made new.