Prayers of the People
These are a collection of prayers that Jack prepared for the 'Prayers of the People' part of the service at West Point Grey United. You will find most of them in 3 formats: html, pdf (Jack's handwritten notes), and as part of the 'Prayers of the People' document published by West Point Grey United Church. You can download this latter document in PDF format, by clicking on its title above.
Last Updated: 04/02/25
| Date | 1st line | HTML | |
| Full Document from WPGUC | |||
| Dec 1, 2001 | Introduction | PofPIntro | |
| Dec 29, 1991 | God only knows we need a word from you | PofP911229 | |
| 1992 | there is no question but that we'd like to feel good | PofP1992 | |
| Nov 1, 1992 | How are we to go about these prayers of the people? | PofP921101 | |
| Apr 2, 1995 | Engage us. | PofP950402 | |
| Apr 30, 1995 | Israel came to its knowledge of you | PofP950430 | |
| Sep 15, 1996 | Here we are before you, in your house | PfoP960915 | |
| 1996 | No matter how much we pray, we still don't know how! | PofP1996 | |
| Feb 1997 | Speak your word to our hearts. | PofP970201 | |
| Apr 20, 1997 | How we long for whatever is not on our plate. | PofP970420 | |
| Jul 6, 1997 | The universe, and all that is in it, are your creations. | PofP970706 | |
| Oct 25, 1997 | We know lots of words about you. | PofP971025 | |
| Dec 21, 1997 | a lot of us are all fussed up because we're not going to be ready for Christmas | PofP971221 | |
| Jan 25, 1998 | your people sang in their time of how the heavens declared your glory | PofP980125 |  |
| Mar 10, 1998 | Renew a right spirit within us. | PofP980310 | |
| Mar 15, 1998 | We don't know why we spend so much of our life for that which doesn't satisfy! | PofP980315 | |
| Apr 19, 1998 | Now is the time we all come with our crys. | PofP980419 | |
| Aug 9, 1998 | since we are to have words with you, let's not waste them. | PofP980809 | |
| Oct 18, 1998 | We've set aside this time to have a word with you. | PofP980918 | |
| Apr 4, 1999 | There's a war on that's getting hotter by the day. | PofP990404 | |
| May 30, 1999 | we find ourselves torn between our OUGHTS and our WANTS | PofP990530 | |
| Jul 4, 1999 | we'd all be a lot more use and do a lot less harm if we had rest in our souls. | PofP990704 | |
| Jan 25, 2000 | to begin with we want to cast our burden on you | PofP000125 | |
| Mar 19, 2000 | Now is the time we put our hearts and minds to the task of getting heard. | PofP000319 | |
| Jun 4, 2000 | we're worried lest we make poor use of the time. | PofP000604 | |
| Oct 1, 2000 | it's time for a word with you. We don't know where to start. | PofP001001 | |
| Nov 12, 2000 | Receive our remembering. | PofP001112 | |
| Jan 14, 2001 | We are suffering from information overload | PofP010114 | |
| Feb 25, 2001 | We take time now for the prayers of all the people gathered here to rise up to you. | PofP010225 | |
| Mar 1, 2001 | Renew a right spirit within us. | PofP010301 | |
| Oct 7, 2001 | sing the songs of Zion in a strange land. | PofP011007 |