Pray for Co‑Mission

Please join us in praying for the Co-Mission Planting team.

Give thanks for a successful first term of the new monthly Bi-Vocational Church Planter Training course provided through the online platform of the London Church Planting Academy. Please pray that we’re able to give these hardworking heroes all the support they need to feel equipped and supported for their task. 

Give thanks for the church planters who form this year’s cohort. They are a terrific encouragement to one another and a great source of joy to us as a team. Please pray that we’re able to provide them with what they need not only to survive the rigours of church planting gospel ministry but to thrive as they do so. 

Give thanks for the collaborative and cooperative working relationships enjoyed by Richard Perkins (Director of Church Planting), Andy Harker (Acting Principal of the London Church Planting Academy) and Phil Smith (Church Planting Administrator). Please pray that we use our complementary abilities so that, under God, we end up being more than the sum of our parts.

Give thanks that we have been able to provide Church Planter Training online throughout the past term. Pray that the forthcoming series of talks in 2 Corinthians about authentic gospel ministry, the talks of Leading Teams, seminars on the principles and practice of running different kinds of meetings for our pre-launch guys, and seminars on understanding the life of the church planter for our post-launch guys will be helpful. 

Give thanks for the provision of gospel ministry coaching that we’ve already been able to provide to our existing planters. And please pray that our renewed efforts to provide every church planter with a gospel ministry coach will come to fruition. Pray especially for an online Coaching Training Session in early March in which we hope to equip Co-Mission Pastors to provide this invaluable support to our church planters.

Please join us in praying for the Co-Mission Strengthening team.

Please join us in praying for the Co-Mission Resources team that includes the Charity Services team, Events and Media teams. They are employed by Co-Mission to support the Planting and Strengthening teams as well as serve the churches and plants of Co-Mission throughout London. 

THANKING GOD FOR

• The trustees of CMIT (the charity which facilitates the operation of the network) and for their godly oversight and servant-hearted work: Phil Cooper, John Marland, Catrin Lee and Bunmi Balogun. 
• The financial support Co-Mission receives from so many gospel-hearted individuals amongst our churches.
• An agile team who’ve been able to support online events that have served, encouraged and equipped Co-Mission this year.
• The Christmas film (The Lonely Dinosaur) being well-received – pray that God would use it to bring many to churches across London and beyond to hear the gospel.

PRAY FOR

• Pray for the Co-Mission Women's Day on Saturday the 30th of January. For Gabby Samuel as she prepares her talk and that the event would be a valuable and encouraging time for the women of Co-Mission as they look together at God’s word. Would this lead all who attend to trust more fully in God's sovereignty in times of uncertainty and difficulty.
• That God would provide wisdom to the REVIVE Management Team as they plan and work on the REVIVE event in June 2021.
• Prayer for clear creative thought, wisdom, and energy to engage and encourage Co-Mission in the coming year – we are, like many a little weary.
• Pray for the Charity Services Team as we finalise our report following on from the recent Finance & Risk survey & that our feedback will help strengthen and encourage the churches in our network. 
• For inspiration on how to move things forward and outward to share the good news of the gospel, tell the stories of people's lives, and encourage church planting and strengthening through Co-Mission in London

Please join with us in praying for Becontree Church, led by Rob Newham…

We are delighted that our council has backed (and therefore funded) two drive-in carol services, which will take place at 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. this coming Sunday, 20 December. The combined planning team for these Carols in Cars involves St George’s Dagenham, Dagenham Parish Church (who planted us) and Becontree Church.

Praise God for:

• Him inspiring encouragement and evangelistic ideas through Faith in Kids.
• The initial ‘no’ from the security firm who manage the site being overturned by the council. (But we know who really was sovereign here.)
• This unrestricted opportunity to share the gospel through readings, songs and an evangelistic talk.
• The capacity being doubled (by the council, not us) to make the event more cost-efficient.
• The musicians from two churches gelling well, and being coached well by James Williams.

Please pray for:

• Reece, a local lad, giving his first-ever evangelistic sermons, with the added difficulty of needing to build rapport with windscreens!
• The Spirit to prepare people, give faith and enter hearts, to bring about new life!
• The car park to be full. As it has capacity for 250 vehicles, that means over 1000 people could be there. Pray too that everyone can hear and see what’s going on.
• Shona and Simon to host the meetings in a relaxed and relational way.
• The follow-up of those who come. Pray for good traffic to a new webpage, which will link people to their local church.

Please join with us in praying for Redeemer Queen’s Park, a new church plant led by Thomas West & Daniel Evans…

Praise God for:

• His graciousness in giving us 25 launch team members by 1 December. 
• The really nice feedback we are receiving to the Advent devotional guide we created for the community.
• The additional community group we’ve added through the month of November.
• The favour he has shown us in getting to a point where we are able to offer ESL classes to the community in January.
• The 20,000 Gospels of Mark we are in the process of distributing to Queen’s Park residents. 

Please pray for:

• God to enable a healthy transition from being a launch team to church membership through December.
• Us to be excited by our identity as a church in January as we begin weekly public gatherings. We’re trusting God to make the way smooth.
• God to bear fruit as the Gospels of Mark are distributed in Queen’s Park through December.
• God to give us 28 launch team members by 9 January.

We are trusting God for all these things.

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

• Praise God for keeping our church family through many trials and hardships in recent months.
• Pray for lasting spiritual fruit in the eight people who recently participated in a Christianity Explored course online.
• Ask God to provide a venue for our Christmas services – our regular one has just fallen through.
• Pray for all the church to be bold and creative in finding ways to share the gospel this Christmas.