Pray for Co‑Mission

Please join with us in praying for Hope Church Vauxhall, led by Sam Gibb…

Give thanks to God for:

• Us being able to meet back again physically.
• A number of new faces joining us occasionally on Sundays.
• New believers who are doing the Urban Catechism discipleship course and being trained up to share the gospel with others.
• Our church family serving on Sundays to enable us to meet.
• Sam and his wife, Charlie, being able to move onto the estate and build relationships with neighbours.
• An encouraging series looking at the life of Joseph.

Please pray for:

• People from the community who are looking into the Christian faith to come to know Jesus.
• Families struggling with homeschooling.
• Single people struggling with loneliness.
• A number of people in the church family looking for work.
• A number of women in the church who are expecting; pray they would continue to trust in God and for the safe delivery of their babies.
• Our Easter outreach: an online kid’s holiday club in the week after Easter. Pray that it would be an encouragement to the church family and that it would be a good opportunity to invite friends and neighbours from the community to hear more about the Easter story. 
• Wisdom for the Church elders and the team at Vauxhall as we think about restarting activities over the coming months.

Please join with us in praying for Hope Church Sutton, led by Tim Saunders and Mark Fossey… 

Give thanks to God for:

• The opportunity and blessing it has been to worship live in Christ Church Sutton, normal capacity 700 but Covid capacity 115!
• The online youth ministry, particularly those who have come to faith, joined the group and joined the leadership team over the past year.

Please pray that:

• The Great Shepherd will keep all his sheep together and gather us again when some degree of normality returns, and for people to step (back) up into service.
• Leaders will know how to plan for coming out of Covid, and that the vision for many of the church to read the Bible with an unbeliever will come about and result in much fruit.  
• Those deacons appointed to a number of ministries at our church meeting this week will be equipped and enthused for the ministry.

Please join with us in praying for the Slavic Christian Fellowship, led by Sergey Chernov…

We praise God for:

• Regular Sunday Zoom meetings with our church members and friends as well as to run a Sunday school for children.
• Our launch team members, particularly my wife, Hanna; our youth worker, Anastasiya; Peter; Virgil; and Insur.
• Kristina and Vladlen, who came to faith last month.
• Financial support from Co-Mission for the next two-year period of our mission.

Please partner with us in prayer for:

• Wisdom in how to reach lost people through internet resources.
• Insur’s wife, Elena, who’s been unwell for more than half a year.
• Our disciples – Kristina, Vladlen, Fanil, Viktoria, Artyom, Anna, Irina, Igor, Roman, Luda, Virgil, Vera – to grow in obedience to Jesus Christ.
• For a positive outcome for my family’s visa extension application.
• Our launch team members to be obedient and courageous in sharing the Gospel with our neighbours and friends.

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

Give thanks for our continuing protection from Covid-19 and the growth of the church in the last twelve months. Praise God! 

Please pray for:

• Our Easter preparations, particularly wisdom about whether to meet in person or online and, as we consider doing a Passover meal, the logistics and organisation for this.
• Renewed evangelistic zeal as the year goes on and for us to look for ways to engage the community including Muslims in the area.
• Continued relationship building with the school we meet at, both while lockdown is in process and when we can begin meeting again.
• Us as a church thinking about worldwide missions. Please pray particularly for our ministry trainee, Connor, who is thinking about overseas mission in a couple of years.

Please join with us in praying for St Andrew’s Chelsea, led by Paul Dawson…

Thank God for:

• His work in bringing us to depend on him during a very encouraging week of prayer for our evangelistic outreach. Many in our church have been praying and many have been inviting guests to our Lent course.
• Giving us a deeper understanding of God’s grace to us through the psalms of lament (our current teaching series).  
• Those who are working hard to make live streaming happen.

Please pray for:

• The Life Explored course starting 17 February on Zoom, which is being run as a Lent course. Pray for many guests to respond and come to Christ.
• The Helping Hands initiative, which provides meals to those in need, to be a means of grace within the church family as well as to those on the fringe.
• The Dawson family after news that Penny will need open-heart surgery for aortic valve replacement. Pray also for wisdom regarding the timing of her surgery.
• Wisdom in when to return to in-person meetings.

Please join with us in praying for Roehampton Student Church, currently without a full-time pastor …

Give thanks to God for:

• Keeping us going as a church throughout the lockdowns and the changing restrictions.
• Our weekly Bible studies – even though they are online, people have been able to engage well with them and we are seeing more new faces.
• Dundonald Church, who have been providing us with teaching on Sundays and training for our leadership team.
• Ian Irwin and Hannah Irwin, our Ministry Trainee, continuing to be led by God’s word to serve our church faithfully. 

Please pray that:

• We will be patient and trust in God while we continue to wait for a full-time pastor.
• What we learnt from 2 Peter on our Weekend (Not) Away will be constructive in our daily lives, and that we will practice the values in 2 Peter 1:5–9 as a church.
• We continue to be a support for members of our church who are overseas or in a different part of the country due to Covid-19. We pray that they will feel welcomed and loved.
• Our teaching and discipleship will be Bible-led, and that we will continue to be gospel-centred in everything that we do to bring more people to know Christ.