Pray for Dundonald Church

19 July 2023

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

Give thanks to God for:

• A year of growth, in numbers and spiritual maturity. We’ve also been really encouraged by the good numbers attending our weekly Explore course throughout the year.
• The work he’s doing among our 400 young people. We are grateful too for the team who are tireless in their efforts to win and engage children’s hearts and minds for Christ.
• Opportunities to spend time during the past year looking at what it means for us to be a ‘church for all nations’. Thank God that across our congregations we’re increasingly diverse and are learning how to worship God together as a family.

Pray for:

• Those serving on youth camps over the summer. Please pray that they’d have a really encouraging time sharing the gospel across the country, and for safety and fun. Pray too that they would have a good rest on their return.
• Those in our community who have had initial contact with us, be that through The Coffee House, our Explore course or joining us on Sundays. Please pray that they would experience something of God’s great welcome and want to return.
• Us looking at Psalms and Philemon over August. Please particularly pray that those preaching would do so faithfully and joyfully. Pray too that God would refresh our church family during the summer.

Pray for Grace Church Beckenham
14 July 2023

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

Praise God for who he is and how he's been at work amongst us. Praise him that he loves to save the lost and for bringing new life to someone recently. Please pray that he would also bring to faith a couple of non-Christians who are coming regularly under the sound of the gospel.

Praise God that he loves us to know him and become like his Son, and for how he's been doing that in our church family. Praise God for bringing along some younger believers to our church. Please pray God helps us disciple them well and that we'd patiently plant and water, trusting God to bring growth.

Praise God for opportunities to connect with different families through our Family Fun events over the last year. Please pray for Grace Club, a new, weekly group for 4s–11s that is kicking off in September. Pray that it would be a place where people meet Jesus and where families from church are excited to bring their friends.

Please also pray for Grace Church as we look to bid for Beckenham Public Hall, a council building up for sale next to our current school venue and where we run our midweek parent and baby group. Pray that in all this we'd trust the Lord and learn what he wants to teach us, and that God would provide all we truly need to see his kingdom advance in Beckenham. Please pray God provides the finances and the wisdom we need given the relatively rundown state of the building. If you'd like to find out more, please email: info@gracechurchbeckenham.org

Pray for King’s Church Walton

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

Give thanks for our youth group and the number of non-Christians who are coming. Pray for God to use us to grow his kingdom and to encourage and strengthen the young people in our church.

Praise God for our good times together through picnics in the park and also for our conversations then with local people who we bumped into. We are thankful for the chance to bring something of our community into the world.

Thank God too that some new people are committing themselves to our church. Please pray that they get connected and that God will use us to strengthen them in their faith. Pray also that they will bring gifts and abilities that will strengthen us.

Please pray for our elders’ away days as we consider our small group meetings, how we function as an eldership and how we integrate deacon roles. Pray our time will build us up as a team and be useful in us serving Jesus faithfully.

The Globe Church

Please join with us in praying for The Globe Church, led by Jonty Allcock…

Give thanks for:

• The recent baptisms of three very different people: one who grew up in a Christian home, one who grew up in a non-Christian home and a guest from Webber Street.
• International Café, which runs every other week. Praise God that lots of people come along and some have come to church through this ministry.
• A growing number of families at church, both as a result of recent births and from new families joining us.

Pray for:

• Jonty and Linda’s sabbatical. Please pray for them to have a really good time to recharge and refresh over the next three months.
• Us, as a church, to grow in our evangelism. We would love to reach our local communities where we are placed and are engaging in some training for this. Please pray for us to grow in confidence to proclaim the good news to those in our communities and lives.

Streatham Central Church

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

• Praise God that personal invitations to various events in the area over Easter led to more community engagement with our church. Pray that these connections would continue.
• Praise God for the safe arrival of numerous church babies and pray for others who are due soon. We’ve seen numerical growth in other ways too with some visitors who want to stick around. Pray that as we welcome them, we would enjoy loving and serving one another as God’s interconnected body. Please pray too that we would learn to ebb and flow according to the needs and pains of each person.
• Staff team growth along with shifts in eldership over the past six months means there are new initiatives and team changes bubbling away. Praise God for this. Pray that as we launch a new youth group in the summer and potentially a mums and tots group in the autumn, we would be doing so in dependence on God. Please pray too that the teams running the groups would be Christ-centred, above reproach, supportive and life-giving.

Pray for All Nations Church Barkingside & Clayhall

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

Give thanks for the Lord for:

• The successful launches of various weekly Wednesday activities: a children’s club in a nearby refugee hotel, All Nations Hot Spot (a community hub) and English conversation classes.
• Over seventy children coming to our joint Holiday Bible Club, with one professing faith, and the growth of our fortnightly FAB Club (a Bible club for primary-school-aged children).
• Growth in our faith as a church through the books of Acts and 1 Thessalonians, on Sundays, and Romans, in mid-week house groups.
• Our Equip for Service training sessions over the last few months for service leaders, musicians, team leaders, members and the door-knocking team.
• Substantive funding enabling us to appoint and employ, for two years, our first cross-cultural ministry trainee from September 2023.
• A united and growing team of elders, trustees and staff.

Please pray for:

• Us to make the most of the opportunities presented by the King’s Coronation and over the summer.
• Us as we consolidate over the summer: building ministries we’ve started; deepening relationships; growing teams; and following up with people.
• Wisdom as we think about how we can better care pastorally for our members and specifically as we think through the potential launch of a women’s daytime Bible study group.
• Our ministry trainee to settle in well, strengthen our staff team and benefit from our fortnightly training in cross-cultural mission and entrepreneurial leadership.
• The Lord to continue to sustain us and bless our endeavours.