Pray for Co‑Mission

Please join us in praying for the Boathouse Church, Putney led by Dave Lee...

Please join us in giving thanks for:

• Our evangelistic Christmas Journey Nativity Trail, Family Carol Service and Christmas Carol service on 12 December, with around 50 guests joining us across the different events - a wonderful mix of friends and family, those from local schools, and those who received a flyer through their front door.  Thank God for invitations offered and accepted; for servant-hearted church family working hard to run the events; and for gospel seeds sown.
• The merger of the Boathouse Church and Roehampton Student Church earlier in the year - as we look back over 2021, this has been one of God's greatest blessings to us.  Thank God for for how he has united us together, helped us to bear with one another, and used us to point each other to Christ.
• All that God has taught us through his word over the course of this year: how Jesus works to build his church and renew his people from Nehemiah; how Jesus steps towards broken and sinful people like us with God’s love and mercy from our Meals with Jesus series; for his call to us through the letter of James to have a faith that works itself out in our actions.

Please join us in praying for:

• A Christianity Explored course that we're running in the New Year as Christmas follow-up.  Pray that God would bring people who he is at work in that he would work through the course to give them a saving faith in Jesus.
• Our elders as we consult, pray and work on renewing our aims and aspirations as a church - that God would give us direction and focus as we seek to serve his people and reach the lost in Putney and the surrounding area.
• A marriage course that we'll be running next term.  Pray that God would use it to strengthen the marriages of those at the Boathouse for his glory and the benefit of individual families as well as our whole church family.

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

Give thanks to God for:

• Our annual fundraiser and the sacrificial generosity of churches and people.
• This whole term since All Nations’ launch and the ten new members who have joined.
• The establishment of All Nations as an official charity.
• A new official partnership that we have signed with London City Mission.

Please pray for:

• Gospel fruit from our carol services this month and the Hope Explored course we will be running in January 2022.
• Fruitfulness from our mission events planned for February–April 2022 with the North-East London Passion for Life Churches.
• Wisdom as we appoint people to key roles (treasurer and administrator) to allow the church to grow and flourish.
• Wisdom as we continue to plan for a north-east London Thursday lunchtime talks initiative for city workers in our region.
• God to raise up and bring us the right people as we look to recruit cross-cultural worker(s) and an apprentice for next year.

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

• Pray that we might be able to enjoy Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in our new building, celebrating the best Christmas present of all: the Lord Jesus. 
• Praise God that 89 young people and 20 leaders spent time together on a youth weekend away. Pray for enduring spiritual fruit from the weekend! 
• Pray for those in our newcomers group – ‘Connect’ – to settle well at Dundonald and feel welcomed and loved by the church family. 
• Pray that as our small groups study the Apostles’ Creed this term, it would help us better understand and live out our Christian faith.

Please join with us in praying for Christ Church Mayfair, led by Matt Fuller…

• International Cafe has restarted and ten non-Christians came to the first evening. Give thanks for the team, who are excited to speak to people about Jesus. Pray that non-Christians would keep coming along and that God would use these monthly cafe meetings for his glory.
• Give thanks that recently some of our discipleship groups have had days away to think more about coming to Jesus and listening to him. Pray that we would keep doing that and for relationships in these groups to keep deepening.
• Thank God for Anna Wilson, our ministry intern. Pray that Anna would know more of Christ’s love for her this year and that he’d equip her for the good works she’s doing, especially as she organises lots of kids’ work this year.
• Pray that our church family would make the most of inviting people to the Christmas events we have planned, such as evangelistic wreath making (on 3 and 4 December) and carol services. Pray that our friends and colleagues would want to know more about Jesus.

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

Praise God that:

• More young people have been coming to church and that, as a result, a Bible study group has been formed.

Please pray for:

• Alex as he preaches a new series on Exodus. Pray that God would use Alex to faithfully teach us.
• Christmas and all our plans for it that we are still developing. Please pray too that we would all be a little more like Jesus and love people in this season.

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

Praise God for:

• An encouraging start to life together as a fully launched church.
• Newcomers – it’s been encouraging seeing God’s kindness in both bringing along newcomers every week from all sorts of backgrounds and current beliefs, and that some have kept coming back.
• Venue provision – God’s been kind to give us a good starting venue in Beckenham Place Park, especially since we had to change plans six weeks before launch. 
• Launch team – it’s been really encouraging to see the church family getting so stuck in serving and praying.

Please pray for:

• Christmas plans – pray that as a church we would be brave and loving as we look to invite others. Please pray too that God would bring lots of people under the sound of the gospel in this area over Christmas especially.
• Longer term venue provision – we’re very grateful for how God has provided for us so far and are praying as we look beyond the initial six months provided in Beckenham Place Park. Pray that God would keep providing all we need, and opening and shutting the doors as he sees fit. 
• Discipleship – pray God would be at work growing his people in knowledge and love of him, especially as we trial running some focused discipleship/baptism classes after the main church service on a Sunday.