Pray for Co‑Mission

Please join with us in praying for St John’s Chelsea, led by Andy Mason…

Give thanks to God for…

• A stable congregation through Covid – we have stayed together.
• A few new people who have joined our church family, but pray for clarity on where they stand with the Lord.
• Christian Badhan, our new youth/kid’s worker, who has joined us and is getting stuck in with ministry.

Please pray for…

• Wisdom as we consider how to reach out longer term and connect with people in new ways.
• God’s provision for people who are struggling with their mental health.
• Wisdom in a range of pastoral situations.
• N, who has been spiritually seeking all the way through the pandemic. Pray that he’d come to faith in the Lord Jesus.

Please join with us in praying for Bridge Church Peckham, led by Richard Perkins …

Give thanks to God for:

• The faithful ministry over the past two years of Adrian Yeboah, Bridge Church Peckham’s Co-Pastor. Pray for his exciting plans to serve in gospel ministry as a missionary in the Netherlands, where he has dual citizenship. He, Abi and their son Mickey will be sorely missed, but we are excited by the possibilities that the Lord has opened up for them to serve the gospel overseas. 
• The recent appointment of Rufus O’Justus as an elder at Bridge Church Peckham. Rufus has completed two years at the Cornhill Training Course whilst he has been working at webuyanycar.com. Having recently studied Paul’s Letter to Titus, we praise the Lord for Rufus’ blamelessness in family life, personal conduct and Bible teaching. And we ask that the Lord will continue to protect him, grow him and use him in strengthening Bridge Church Peckham. 
• The start of the 2020–21 version of The Leadership Project, a collaborative, gospel-ministry training course with Grace Church Brockley, New Life Church Catford, Honor Oak Christian Fellowship and Mosaic Multicultural Church. Pray that the delegates from Bridge Church Peckham who are signed up – Jane, Ran, Hilda, Tayo, Rufus and Abigail – would grow in gospel convictions, godly characteristics and ministry competency. 
• Us being able to relaunch in-person gatherings as a church family at St Mary Magdalene Primary School, and for the assistance of the School Business Manager, Chris Sewell, in making that happen. We are running all-age meetings with an extended kid’s slot at 10.30 a.m. and preaching a sermon online on Zoom at 8 p.m. The version of church we’re allowed under government regulations is a little bit frustrating, but we’re hugely grateful that we’ve been allowed to meet. Please pray, though, that we can sing, eat together and hug one another sometime soon! 
• Jason O’Shea and Rufus O’Justus being enrolled in the newly launched, monthly London Church Planting Academy Bi-Vocational Church Planter Training Course. Pray that God will equip them as future church-planting leaders and provide them and their advisers with the wisdom to know whether, when, where and how they might be involved in serving the gospel in this way. 

Please pray for:

• The provision of someone to replace Adrian as the Lead Pastor at Bridge Church Peckham. Pray that the Lord would raise up the right man with the right gifts to be able to lead a fledgling multicultural work. Our aim is to identify, raise up, train and empower young, black gospel ministers as we reach Peckham with the good news of the gospel.

Please join with us in praying for Dundonald Church, led by Richard Coekin…

Give thanks to God for:

• Our return to face-to-face services from 4 October and for the encouragement that’s been to God’s people at Dundonald.
• The ‘Putting Parenting to Bed’ course being run online and the large number of church and non-church parents who have joined in. Pray that they’ll be convinced of biblical wisdom and God’s great design for parenting.
• The opportunities to go door-knocking in the streets around our church building this month. Pray that we’d love our neighbours, especially with the gospel.

Please pray for:

• New serving teams to be built from the smaller congregations (only a half or a third of their previous size) who are present each week.
• God to provide us with a gifted and faithful Operations Manager to serve in our staff team.
• Those struggling as a result of Covid-19 – whether financially, socially, with their mental health, or in other ways. Ask God to care for, comfort and provide for them, through the body of Christ.

Please join with us in praying for the Slavic Christian Fellowship, led by Sergey Chernov…

Give thanks to God for:

• Our Zoom meetings every Sunday, both with church members and new friends who’ve been with us since the beginning of lockdown.
• Our launch team members, particularly my wife, Hanna; youth worker, Anastasiya; Peter; Virgil; and Insur.
• The opportunity to visit our parents in Spain and serve in Russian-speaking churches in Marbella, as well as in Lisbon, in August.
• The start of Online Slavic Bible School for people who are new to faith.
• The opportunity to meet new Russian-speaking people through ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) in Newham College and Community Centre.

Please pray for:

• Us resuming our Zoom Sunday school for kids in October, and for Anastasiya running the activities for young ones.
• Insur’s wife, Elena, who’s been feeling unwell for more than half a year.
• Our disciples – Artyom, Marina, Anna, Irina, Igor, Roman, Luda, Virgil, Vita and Vera – to grow in obedience to Jesus Christ.
• Wisdom concerning our son, Nikita, who is in year 6 and therefore will need a good secondary school next year.
• Obedience and courage for our launch team members in sharing the Good News with their neighbours and friends.
• Wisdom in how to share the Gospel with others through the internet resources.

Please join with us in praying for Streatham Central Church, led by Alex Lyell…

Give thanks to God for:

• Our meeting on Sunday 27 September – the first time we have gathered in person since March. It was received very positively and left people wanting more.
• The different gifts he has given our church and how people have been working together to organise everything from Zoom meetings, to gathering in person on Sunday and to all kinds of kid’s work.
• All our church members being healthy. Everyone has been reflecting on all the blessings God has given us – from running water to a soft bed.

Please pray for:

• Our elders and steering groups to make wise decisions going forward and to seek God’s will and plan for his church.
• Ongoing discussions about evangelism and how to best use the opportunities we have, whether that is online or out on the street.

Please join with us in praying for Longheath Church, led by Arni Pelosi …

Give thanks to our heavenly Father for:

• The four teenagers who meet every Sunday afternoon to study ‘The 4 Gs of the Gospel’, a doctrinal Bible study booklet. 
• New people attending our morning Zoom services.

Please pray for:

• Wisdom as we plan our October evangelistic Zoom mission week. 
• Our heavenly Father to guide us as to how to draw alongside those in our congregation who are feeling underloved because of social distancing.