'Hope Refreshed' Collect (Gathering Prayer):
Blessed are you, Lord our God, redeeming and renewing your creation.
You have washed us in your living water 
and call us to come confidently into your presence.
Help us to trust in your faithfulness;
Refresh our hope and renew our spirit that, holding tightly to that hope, 
we may better serve you and encourage one another in mission.
Blessed are you O God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, now and forever.
Amen. 


'Hope Refreshed' Intercessory Prayer:
Gracious God, we give thanks that you call us into your presence in prayer.  
Receive the prayers we offer this day, and help us and all those for whom 
we have prayed to hold tightly to the hope we have in you, for we trust you 
to renew, restore and refresh us according to our needs, 
through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

"Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be
trusted to keep his promise."                                  Hebrews 10:23, NLT