Pray for Co‑Mission

Please join with us in praying for the new church plant in Barkingside, led by Rick Raja…

Pray for:

• Us to get to know our neighbours during this Coronavirus crisis and that people would respond to the flyers we have put through their doors.
• Esther as she continues building relationships with mums in the local toddler group through their WhatsApp.
• Rick as he works as an emergency doctor in the NHS. Pray particularly for protection for him and the family.
• Creativity, wisdom and strength in our weekly core team meetings launching virtually via Zoom in April.

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

Give thanks to God for:

• A great bunch of Jesus-loving people who love his word and want to see his kingdom grow; the many gifts that God has brought to our church through his people; and the encouragement of seeing many using their gifts to serve each other.
• A couple of new faces wanting to join our fellowship in the last month or so. We’re thankful that God continues to provide for all our needs and continues to add to our number.
• The solid witness of a number of senior saints who faithfully serve the church, pray and love people well. We’re also thankful for their witness in suffering with hope.
• Our women’s groups, and the leadership of those groups, who are devoted to God’s word, love one another and desire to work together in mission.

Please pray for:

• Us as we look to recruit an Assistant Pastor to help us do more to attract and connect our community to Christ, and to equip us to strengthen our families’ work. Pray for wisdom to make a good appointment and trust that God would provide who we need.
• Us as we work through Romans over the next few months. Pray that God would strengthen us in our faith in God’s Gospel, in our unity as a church and in our desire to see the world (around us and further afield) reached with the Good News.
• God to continue to provide all we need in terms of venue and gifted people so that we can equip more people for ministry.

Please join with us in praying for Christ Church Balham, led by Andy Palmer…

Give thanks to God for:

• Continuing fellowship being possible because of the internet – we are live-streaming on our YouTube channel, both on Sundays and midweek with daily morning devotions.
• A pre-existing network of healthy and engaged Connect Groups, who are working hard to ensure that nobody ‘falls off the back of the truck’ in this season.
• A number of families who have invited into their homes those who live alone or with unbelievers in order that they might isolate together.
• A godly and wise eldership and staff team, who have had to adjust quickly to a very fluid situation.

Please pray for:

• The lockdown to result in a more prayerful devotion to the Lord and care for others.
• Our YouTube channel to be watched by those who perhaps wouldn’t normally come to church on a Sunday, and that through this they would see their need for a Saviour from sin and death.
• No worst-case scenario, which is not that someone in our church might die as a result of infection (tragic though that would be), but that someone in our church might fall away owing to a lack of fellowship and encouragement. We are particularly concerned for those who live alone, suffer with mental health issues, or have recently joined the church.
• The economic downturn not to hinder raising the remaining £150,000 of funds needed towards our Assistant Minister housing fund – but praise God that around £200,000 has already been pledged.

Please join with us in praying for Dundonald church, led by Richard Coekin (Senior Pastor) and Clayton Fopp (Senior Assistant Pastor)…

Give thanks to God for:

• An encouraging women’s breakfast this term, with many inspired to develop gospel-shaped relationships amid the busyness of London life.
• The willingness of small groups to adopt new patterns of meeting in the face of Covid-19.

Please pray for:

• Dundonald leaders seeking to make wise decisions about gatherings and events in the light of the uncertainty surrounding the Covid-19 outbreak. Pray for wisdom and the heeding of godly counsel.
• Many to benefit, especially during this unsettling time, from the Good News for Real Life events on Purity and Anxiety. Pray that the recordings and live-streaming of these events would be a useful resource for many Christians.
• Dundonald people to long to share the good news of Jesus with their friends and neighbours, and to do so creatively while people are isolated.
• Continuing conversations with those who were keen to come along to our Better Life evangelistic events, originally scheduled for March and April. Pray that these events would happen in due course, attended by lots of friends and family, and that God would save many people!
• Good pastoral care in the midst of ongoing isolation, anxiety, and uncertainty.
• Many to join in with services streamed online, and to be encouraged and strengthened by other online teaching.

Please join with us in praying for Pete Snow and the revitalisation of St Paul’s Harringay…

Give thanks to God for:

• Local church. We have been loving being (mostly) in walking distance of each other, and with Covid-19 this is opening up new opportunities for support and community.
• The unity God is growing between those who have been at St Paul’s a long time and newcomers. This may actually deepen during our corona isolation since we're having live-streamed joint services. This takes wisdom in what to include and leave out.
• Independent examinations of our accounts being nearly finished: there was a backlog of several years. We thank God for perseverance for our wonderful finance team to get us to this point.
• Our burgeoning junior church. We have had some great momentum in recent months.

Please also pray for:

• Our evangelism via online live-streaming and social media. Ask the Lord to reach people who would otherwise be too cautious to set foot inside a church.
• Our elderly members, who are particularly vulnerable to coronavirus at this time. We would love to encourage them in Christ for however long they have left.
• Us to keep growing as a church in our obedience to God’s Word –this is something we always want to grow in.
• An invitation dinner we were planning on 3 July – which was probably to be St Paul’s first-ever event of this kind. If we can't go ahead with it, please pray for the Lord to give us other opportunities to reach out.
• Our church hall roof has decayed so much it now needs to be replaced. Please pray for this to get done during corona shutdown phase. We would be very stuck without it.

Please join with us in praying for Ben Shaw and the Boathouse Church in Putney...

• We thank God that we continue to grow in Christ at the Boathouse.
• We're also thankful to all those preachers from Co-Mission and Emmanuel Wimbledon who have come to the Boathouse over the last 6 months to help out while Ben continues to recover from surgery.
• We also thank God for Ben's continued recovery and that he has been able to get back into ministry in various ways.
• We are grateful to God for a continued steady flow of visitors at the Boathouse - pray that they would want to make the Boathouse their home and come to know and love the Lord Jesus.
• Please continue to pray that Ben's recovery goes smoothly now he is back full-time.
• Pray that the Boathouse would remain encouraged and keep going in trying to evangelise Putney and keep growing in Christ.