Pray for Grace Church Worcester Park

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

Give thanks for:

• Good numbers over the Easter weekend, including one lady who made a commitment to Christ after the Good Friday service.
• Increasing contacts within the community via our warm space initiative and coffee mornings.
• New people joining the church, including several single women. Please pray they settle in well and find appropriate ways to deepen relationships within the church family and serve.

Pray for:

• Us advertising for a church planter to lead a new congregation in the Stoneleigh area. Please pray the Lord provides the right person to lead this forward.
• Us relaunching Dads and Tots once a month on a Saturday morning. Please pray for enthusiastic volunteers and good relationships to be built with new families.
• Our pastor-in-training, Adam Jacques, who is moving on in July to a church in Wiltshire. Please pray for him and his family as they move and settle in a new town and church, but thank God with us for Adam’s faithful service at Grace Church.

St Paul’s Harringay

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

Give thanks for:

• God’s grace having met us and carried us through the winter. It’s been a hard winter, and many in the church are working hard, but the Lord has sustained us. We’re thankful.
• A happy and godly staff team: Katy (children and youth), Courtney (operations, part-time), Ben (ministry trainee), Sara (unpaid doer of lots of ministry) and Pete (pastor). Also for wonderful elders, wardens and lay leaders too many to name here.
• The ‘first lap’ of door knocking was completed just before Easter. We managed to knock on the door of every flat and house in our parish: 4,040 dwellings, 12,000 people, 133 Gospels given out, 1 in 5 people we spoke to wanting prayer, and lots of relationships to follow up on.

Please pray for:

• Us to have a big vision of our great God. Pray that he would fill our hearts and minds and we’d set our sights on godliness.
• Our mission week (14–21 May), especially an event on Friday 19 May with Olivia Harrison telling the story of sudden paralysis and faith.
• Grant funding for Ben Robinson’s second year as a ministry trainee. We need to raise £18,000 by mid-June.
• Wisdom and courage as we contend for the faith in the Church of England.

Pray St Peter’s Fulham

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

Give thanks for:

• Our three Lent courses on creation, Haggai and parenting.
• Our prayer meeting with the local Hammersmith and Fulham gospel partnership.
• The Lord increasing our faith, love and hope through our recent sermon series in 1 Thessalonians.

Pray for:

• Fab Club, an after-school group for children in the local area where we seek to share the gospel with children and their parents.
• Our ministry trainees to be growing in their love of the Lord, their knowledge of the truth and their gifting to teach that to others.

Pray for Becontree Church

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

Praise God for:

• A great time away with other AMiE (Anglican Mission in England) churches and ministers. It’s really encouraging to see what God is doing in different parts of the country – often places which have fewer churches than we enjoy in London.
• Gospel partnership, both locally (where seven churches are working together) and in London (with preachers from Cornerstone Church serving us this month).
• Joseph and Phoebe, who are fairly new to our church but have been getting involved in our children’s work on Fridays. Pray for them as they help at a local residential camp for thirty 8–10-year-olds at the end of the month.

Pray for:

• Us to make the most of every opportunity to speak about Jesus over the Easter weekend, and in the weeks leading up to then.
• The finalising of our building purchase – mostly just legal matters now. We continue to praise God for this wonderful provision of a great venue and pray that we’d use it in making him known, for many years to come.

Pray for Christ Church Balham

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

Praise God for:

• New life – both natural growth (with many new babies born into the church family) and spiritual growth (as people have turned to Christ as their Lord and Saviour). Last term we had the joy of baptising a recently adopted child, a young man called Jake (who was invited to church by a Christian at work), and ex-England footballer Liz with her daughter Erin.
• The new outreach initiatives which began over the past year: an after-school club, the neighbourhood care team and a friendship café. Thank God too for those who continue to sow the seed of the gospel while trusting the Lord to produce the fruit.
• Good ongoing relationships with the school where we meet on Sundays and for reasonable stability in terms of the other venues we book for midweek clubs.

Please pray for:

• The Lord to continue to grow us in diversity so that we increasingly reflect the demographics of the area we are seeking to reach for Christ. Pray too that more families would have the means to settle long-term in the area.
• Our elders team, which has been hit hard by serious illness, workload capacity and ‘problems of life’. Please pray for Tom Emslie-Smith and James King, who have joined our elders team, and for us as we establish new structures to help assist in the practical leadership of the church now that it is considerably bigger.
• Our people to ‘learn to devote themselves to doing what is good, in order to provide for urgent needs and not live unproductive lives’ (Titus 3:14, NIV). Like many churches, the cost of living crisis has hit our giving.
• Us as we currently look for a new children’s ministry coordinator. Please pray that the Lord would provide both the funds and the right person to serve in this role.

Pray for Mosaic Multicultural Church

2 March 2023

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

Give thanks for:

• A new family that has just decided to join our church in order to help us.
• The great work of St Jude’s NTCG, who are caring for the homeless in a very practical and spiritual way in Elephant and Castle.
• The desire of G and A to be baptised in the near future.

Pray for:

• The arrival of the Martin family from the States to join our church. They will spend a week in London this month exploring possible places to live before finally moving in August.
• Evangelism during March that has been planned jointly by the churches in Elephant and Castle.
• The baptism preparation of D and G. Please ask God to provide us with a place / church building with a baptistery.