Mothers' Union Aotearoa New Zealand & Polynesia

06/04/2026

Walk to the cross on Easter Monday

28/03/2026

A wonderful church with lovely windows 🙏

07/03/2026

A Prayer on International Women's Day
Heavenly Father, we thank you for the gift of the women in our lives. For our friends, sisters, mothers, daughters, colleagues, wives, and the women in our church family. We thank you for the many ways we see womanhood expressed among these women - in compassion, kindness, strength, dignity, joy, sorrow, service and leadership. We know that no woman is perfect, because no human is perfect, but nonetheless that each one is made in your image and is known by you.

We thank you for the women throughout the Scriptures who have been examples to us in faith - the courage of Rahab, the music of Miriam, the faithfulness of Mary; for Lydia the businesswoman, for Priscilla the tentmaker and teacher, for Lois the grandmother and Eunice the mother of Timothy. You have given us all these women and so many more as examples, from the cloud of witnesses who cheer us on as we run the race of faith.

Keep teaching us, Heavenly Father, how to be loving one another well as your children. Help us to put in the work to develop our relationships with one another so that we can encourage each other and help one another to continue on in our faith as brothers and sisters in Christ. Please forgive us for the times that we have failed in loving the women in our lives and in your church well. We pray that our church will be known as one where women are loved, safe and valued. You Son showed us what it means to love and honour women, so let him be our example.

We pray for women in adverse circumstances: in the ravages of war; in domestic violence; for those homeless or without support in pregnancy or single motherhood; for those caring for sick, elderly or disabled family members, or in illeness themselves… Make a way through for these women and grant them peace and protection. You are the Champion of the weak, the Protector of the innocent, and the Comforter of those who sorrow, so we call on your grace and mercy for all those who suffer, through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord. Amen.

Adapted from the Reverend Jocelyn Bignill, All Saints, Petersham

05/03/2026

World day of Prayer
This year prepared by Nigeria.

03/03/2026