Every Sunday morning the Church Lounge is open before the service, from 9:50am until 10:10am, for those who would like to use it to pray, it is especially an opportunity to pray for those involved in the services on that day. During all our services, as well as our regular prayers for the wider world we use a prayer diary which includes people within the local community and known to people within the Church who we have been asked to pray for. These requests are added to our prayers of intercession for three weeks of Sunday services, and can be included for longer if information needs to be updated.
Prayer Cards are available for people to make prayer requests, and many of these cards were distributed to people living in the streets near to the Church in 2004 as part of out Outreach programme. There is also an opportunity to submit prayer requests through this site, for inclusion on the site and in our services.
Church members meet together in the chapel on the first Wednesday of each month at 7:30pm for a combined prayer meeting. This meeting is open for anyone in the church community to attend, and gives people an opportunity to pray together in the Church. There is further opportunity to do this through prayer meetings organised by all the churches in Plympton. We have held united Plympton prayer meetings at Ridgeway for the last two years, on Wednesday, 11 May 2005 and Wednesday, 24 May 2006. For 2007, the event takes place at Mudge Way Community Church on Wednesday, 23 May.
Ridgeway also has activities for people who wish to pray more outside of Church, especially at home. Several of our members run a "prayer chain" where prayer requests are given to one person in the chain and then passed on to others in turn. In 2005 we also ran for the first time a "week of prayer" where people within the Church community were encouraged to sign up for blocks of one or more hours where they would pray either in the Church building, at home or even at work or school. This prayer, at all times of the day, gives people who are unable to take part in other Church activities a chance to be involved. This event was also run again in 2006.
In February 2006 we launched a new prayer initiative in the church to encourage members to pray for different groups within the life of the church. Cards are available from the church for those wishing to take part, and we encourage people to sign up to pray for up to three different groups on a regular basis. The information on the cards was updated in November 2006, and is also available online here.