Pray for Co‑Mission

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

Give thanks to God: 

• For our online Connect Groups, which provide midweek relational encouragement, personal care support, and a chance to apply the Scriptures to life. 
• That our new preaching series in Genesis 1–4, with a variety of speakers, is helping us get to grips with our origins.
• That we enjoyed encouraging engagement and wonderful unity at our recent online church family meeting, at which we consulted on our plans going forward in 2021.  
• For the Leadership Project, a monthly, gospel-ministry training course for leaders of which we’re a part – in collaboration with New Life Catford, Grace Church Brockley, Mosaic Multicultural Church and Honor Oak Christian Fellowship. 

Please pray: 

• That we would be able to regroup as we prayerfully and thoughtfully respond to the impact of Covid on our church gathering, our church programme and our church family.
• For unity and clarity as we deal with the question of our ongoing viability and how we can provide sustainable patterns of ministry and plan to grow. 
• The provision of human and financial resources and perhaps even partnerships to secure our future gospel ministry.

Please join with us in praying for Mosaic Multicultural Church, led by Alex Brito…

Give thanks to God for:

• Five guests who attended our Christianity Explored course.
• The financial provision received to pay a freelance administrator.
• A new family who joined us from Timus Baptist Church to help disciple the new Christians of the church.
• The new training for the women of Mosaic that Helen Thorne has run from January.

Please pray for:

• An attendee of our Sunday gatherings who is struggling with drug addiction.
• Brito’s visa application (ILR).
• The group of ten non-Christians who are attending our International Cafe.
• English for Everybody, our English classes, asking God to give us opportunities to share the gospel with guests.

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

Give thanks to God for:

• The eight people that completed our Membership Explored course.
• Our growing teens work in partnership with Mosaic Church. 
• The blessing of preaching Hebrews in this challenging time. 

Please pray that:

• Tests will reveal why Arnie has been having chest pains and cardiologists will successfully make any interventions necessary to improve his heart health. 
• The church leaders will be blessed with wisdom while Arnie takes a short time off work. 
• God will encourage and protect our church family and bring healing to those with Covid-19.

Please join with us in praying for St Peter’s Fulham, led by Rupert Standring…

Give thanks to God for:

• The music and tech expertise he has given David Tubbs, our music minister, which has enabled us to livestream our services effectively and efficiently. We’re thankful too for financial resources to upgrade our equipment for this. 
• Some contact over the Christmas season with new people who attended our Christmas services as well as with those who have found us online over lockdown.
• Us being in an ‘ok’ position financially at the end of 2020 and going into 2021, despite our expectations otherwise.

Please pray for: 

• Our senior members – we’ve suspended their support group for their own safety, but meeting online is harder for them. 
• Wisdom how to follow up those who visited us over Christmas, especially to invite them to the Christianity Explored Course starting on 20 January.
• A new nursery school will be using our hall this year but this has been delayed due to Covid-19. Pray for a start date as soon as possible!
• A residential weekend away some time this year – to re-establish relationships in our church family who haven’t seen that much of each other this year!

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.