Pray for Co‑Mission

Please join with us in praying for King’s Church Walton, led by Simon Martin…

Give thanks to God for:

• Helping us as a community to look out for one another – lots of people are actively serving one another, keeping in contact and looking out for the vulnerable.
• A number of us being given the opportunity to share our faith with others and some now reading the Bible with unbelievers. One man has recently committed his life to Christ!
• The church using their gifts to serve one another to keep our meetings going: on Sundays, mid-week and for youth.
• Parents working hard to disciple children.

Please pray for:

• Funds to be able to cover new recruitment plans – and for wisdom as we move to the final stages of recruiting an assistant pastor.
• Real patience and endurance as we feel increasingly frustrated with lockdown and the problems it brings.
• Great wisdom and a good working relationship with the school where we usually meet as we try to figure out a way to get back to meeting together there.

Please join with us in praying for All Nations Church Barkingside & Clayhall, led by Rick Raja…

Give thanks to God for:

• Our weekly core team meetings – via Zoom – studying Ephesians, deepening relationships and doing cross-cultural training together.  
• Opportunities for hospitality to meet with individuals and family units face to face, albeit with social distancing.
• Rick being able to cut back on hospital work, now that hospitals are stabilising, and plough more energy and time into the church plant.  

Please pray for:

• The launch of our YouTube channel, other social media and a flyer campaign this month to engage our community.  
• Wisdom for the leadership as we plan for September–December and for finding a possible public venue.  
• The Lord to add to and strengthen our core team each month as we continue to recruit people.

Please join with us in praying for Grace Church Beckenham, led by Matt Dew-Jones…

Give thanks to God for:

• The growing launch team he’s gathering (24 adults and 13 children so far).
• Our Thursday night Grace groups.
• A great mix of gifts, ages and leadership skills in the team, with an evident passion to serve Jesus.
• Supportive partners in Christ Church Bromley, Co-Mission and FIEC.
• Real engagement with the evangelistic events and videos we’ve been able to run during lockdown.

Please pray: 

• God grants us wisdom on how to launch well during a global pandemic. (We’re struck that when James talks about wisdom in 3:17, it’s primarily about what we’re to be like rather than what we’re to do: ‘the wisdom from above is first pure, peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere,’ esv).
• God saves many who are lost in Beckenham and grows many believers to be more like Jesus.
• For the Christianity Explored course we’re helping to run that starts on 1 July and for the few people looking at John’s gospel using The Word One to One resource.
• The Lord opens the right venue doors at the right time.

Please join with us in praying for Christ Church Mayfair, led by Matt Fuller…

Give thanks to God for:

• Many opportunities we’ve had to read the Bible with non-Christian friends and colleagues.
• All that he has taught us about himself as we’ve studied his Word this year, especially as discipleship groups come to the end of studying Romans.
• The church family sacrificially serving at the moment, especially those running tech and teaching the youth online.
• His kindness in providing us with a church family who love one another in suffering.

Please pray for:

• God to help us know how to make the most of outreach opportunities.
• Wisdom for those making decisions about longer term planning, especially around post-lockdown kids’ ministry.
• The Lord to help us persevere in virtually meeting together, encouraging each other as we wait for Jesus’ return.
• Those finding lockdown especially difficult at the moment, particularly engaged couples in our church family.
• The student team as they plan for the autumn term in the midst of all the uncertainty. Pray that they would be flexible, wise and creative as they seek to serve our current and incoming students.

Please join with us in praying for Grace Church Worcester Park, led by Sam Williamson…

• Praise God that many more people are accessing our livestream services each week than would normally physically attend church. Some of these people do not normally attend any church regularly, so please pray that the Lord will use these services to do His work in them.
• Thank God for home groups providing biblical input and support via Zoom. Pray that those suffering with Zoom fatigue would still be encouraged by these meetings and able to encourage others by their presence.
• Praise God that there are opportunities for church members to be involved in community projects – helping local food banks and volunteering with meals on wheels. Pray for them to show God’s love and compassion as they serve in this way.

Please join with us in praying for St Paul’s Harringay, led by Pete Snow…

Give thanks to God for:

• Keeping us during coronavirus. We’ve been able to live-stream church on Sundays, and even reach our elderly members with a phone network.
• New people joining us during lockdown. Their enthusiasm and appetite is lovely.
• Our gifted techies, particularly Andy and Jacob, who have kept us preaching Christ during lockdown!
• A little bookstand we put outside our church building during the sunny weather. About 30 New Testaments and evangelistic books have been taken by passers-by.
• A new roof for our church hall: it was condemned just before lockdown, but after many weeks of work has now been made good. We’re set for church hall ministry again!

Please pray for:

• Wisdom in planning how and when we return to physical services.
• Those who have been ‘visiting’ us online to transition into church membership in due course.
• Ongoing training and spiritual growth so that all will catch the vision for making disciples here.
• God to strengthen the hearts of Pete and Sara Snow as they go through a difficult time and look to the hope they have in Christ.
• The Lord to make St Paul’s a praying church. We’re grateful for increased numbers at prayer meetings and for a new prayer diary, but pray that God would humble us to depend on him.