The Occupational Prayer Cycle |
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As churches we are very good at praying for missionaries and medical staff, police and teachers, and rightly so, for these are important and stressful jobs. But other jobs are important and other jobs are stressful, and do not usually get the same coverage. So here is a prayer cycle to run week by week through the year, covering many more jobs. In time it's hoped that it will be reasonably comprehensive, but this draft inevitably misses out some important categories (suggestions welcome - please contact the SYWC office). The distribution of occupations across the weeks is intended to reflect the variety of work people do, rather than balance the numbers engaged in each week's occupations. On a world scale for instance, farmers are under-represented. The order in which things appear does not imply the precedence of any particular type of work. Each week is defined by the range of dates in which the Sunday falls. |
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Managers and administrators in heavy industry, national and local government, large companies and organisations |
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Outworkers, working at home, often women on low pay |
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Managers in banks, insurance and finance, advertising executives |
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Housewives and husbands |
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Senior officers in the police, fire and ambulance services and the armed forces, managers of security firms |
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Personnel officers and managers whe have to tell people they are redundant |
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People newly made redundant |
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People long-term unemployed |
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Managers, labourers in building, mining and manufacturing and other work |
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Scientists |
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Engineers, computer programmers |
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Doctors, nurses, therapists and hospital technicians |
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Teachers, nursery school nurses, lecturers and librarians, academic researchers. |
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People who stay at home to care for relatives and children |
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Accountants, lawyers, financial experts |
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Architects, town planners, surveyors, estate agents |
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Technicians, draughtspersons, designers |
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Ship and aircraft officers, air traffic planners and controllers |
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Social workers, sports people, actors, artists, writers, probation officers and poets |
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People working in newspapers, radio and television, other professionals and experts |
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Administrative officers and assistants in the civil service and local government |
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Accounting clerks, cashiers, filing and records clerks |
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Storekeepers, despatch and other clerks |
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Typists, secretaries, personal assistants |
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Receptionists, telephonists, workers in call centres |
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Voluntary workers outside their home country, missionaries |
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Bricklayers and other skilled construction workers |
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Children at school and students |
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Metal machining, fitting, instrument making craftspeople, skilled car, bus and lorry workers |
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Retired people |
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Welders, metal forming craftspeople |
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Skilled textile workers, hatmakers, glovemakers, makers of clothing |
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Print workers, electricians and electronic craftspeople |
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Carpenters and joiners |
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Chefs, cooks, waiters, kitchen porters, club, pub and café bar workers |
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Skilled workers of many kinds |
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Voluntary workers in their home country |
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Ministers and priests, imams, rabbis, leaders in all faiths, church community workers, church leaders, prostitutes |
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Soldiers, sailors and aircrew, security guards and car park attendants |
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Police, prison officers, firefighters and ambulance crews, traffic wardens |
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Railway booking office staff, airline workers, cabin crew, travel agents, drivers, transport and telecommunications |
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Health workers and haircutters, domestic workers, care assistants and other helpers |
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Buyers, brokers and sales representatives |
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Shop check out operators and other shop workers |
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Migrant workers, people displaced or homeless or far from their families |
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Telephone and door to door sales people, market traders and other people selling things |
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Industrial machine operators and assembly line workers |
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Steel workers |
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Lorry, crane and fork lift truck drivers |
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Farm and forestry workers, fisherfolk, vets, zookeepers |
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Other workers in sales and services, department store Father Christmases, makers of Christmas card rhymes |
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Other workers by hand or by brain |
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