Pray for Co‑Mission

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

Give thanks to God for:

• The growing launch team he’s gathering (24 adults and 13 children so far).
• Our Thursday night Grace groups.
• A great mix of gifts, ages and leadership skills in the team, with an evident passion to serve Jesus.
• Supportive partners in Christ Church Bromley, Co-Mission and FIEC.
• Real engagement with the evangelistic events and videos we’ve been able to run during lockdown.

Please pray: 

• God grants us wisdom on how to launch well during a global pandemic. (We’re struck that when James talks about wisdom in 3:17, it’s primarily about what we’re to be like rather than what we’re to do: ‘the wisdom from above is first pure, peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere,’ esv).
• God saves many who are lost in Beckenham and grows many believers to be more like Jesus.
• For the Christianity Explored course we’re helping to run that starts on 1 July and for the few people looking at John’s gospel using The Word One to One resource.
• The Lord opens the right venue doors at the right time.

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

Give thanks to God for:

• Many opportunities we’ve had to read the Bible with non-Christian friends and colleagues.
• All that he has taught us about himself as we’ve studied his Word this year, especially as discipleship groups come to the end of studying Romans.
• The church family sacrificially serving at the moment, especially those running tech and teaching the youth online.
• His kindness in providing us with a church family who love one another in suffering.

Please pray for:

• God to help us know how to make the most of outreach opportunities.
• Wisdom for those making decisions about longer term planning, especially around post-lockdown kids’ ministry.
• The Lord to help us persevere in virtually meeting together, encouraging each other as we wait for Jesus’ return.
• Those finding lockdown especially difficult at the moment, particularly engaged couples in our church family.
• The student team as they plan for the autumn term in the midst of all the uncertainty. Pray that they would be flexible, wise and creative as they seek to serve our current and incoming students.

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

• Praise God that many more people are accessing our livestream services each week than would normally physically attend church. Some of these people do not normally attend any church regularly, so please pray that the Lord will use these services to do His work in them.
• Thank God for home groups providing biblical input and support via Zoom. Pray that those suffering with Zoom fatigue would still be encouraged by these meetings and able to encourage others by their presence.
• Praise God that there are opportunities for church members to be involved in community projects – helping local food banks and volunteering with meals on wheels. Pray for them to show God’s love and compassion as they serve in this way.

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

Give thanks to God for:

• Keeping us during coronavirus. We’ve been able to live-stream church on Sundays, and even reach our elderly members with a phone network.
• New people joining us during lockdown. Their enthusiasm and appetite is lovely.
• Our gifted techies, particularly Andy and Jacob, who have kept us preaching Christ during lockdown!
• A little bookstand we put outside our church building during the sunny weather. About 30 New Testaments and evangelistic books have been taken by passers-by.
• A new roof for our church hall: it was condemned just before lockdown, but after many weeks of work has now been made good. We’re set for church hall ministry again!

Please pray for:

• Wisdom in planning how and when we return to physical services.
• Those who have been ‘visiting’ us online to transition into church membership in due course.
• Ongoing training and spiritual growth so that all will catch the vision for making disciples here.
• God to strengthen the hearts of Pete and Sara Snow as they go through a difficult time and look to the hope they have in Christ.
• The Lord to make St Paul’s a praying church. We’re grateful for increased numbers at prayer meetings and for a new prayer diary, but pray that God would humble us to depend on him.

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

Give thanks to God for:

• His kindness to us during lockdown. Despite being physically apart, the church has experienced many blessings through online midweek Bible studies and live-streamed services.
• The small group leaders’ commitment to keep meeting and encouraging their group members so that they grow in maturity during these trying times.

Please pray for:

• Our Globe Connect evangelistic course. We’ve already run this online last month and it was a great encouragement. Pray for the next couple of sessions, for church members to invite their friends to it and for the Spirit to be working in people’s hearts.
• Our church members who have been affected by the financial strain of Covid-19 and the lockdown, and for those who are grieving the loss of loved ones for various causes. Pray for wisdom for the church family in how to care for them both practically and emotionally.
• Our church members who travelled back to their home country or family home during the pandemic. For those whose families aren’t Christian, pray for the opportunity to witness to them.

Please join with us in praying for The Bridge Battersea, led by Jason Roach…

Give thanks to God for:

• The Lord continuing to sustain us, and how we’ve generally seen the church draw together as a family rather than drift apart during lockdown.
• Members of the congregation giving up lots of time and effort to serve in new ways, like overseeing the weekly streamed service.
• The encouragement of a recent sermon series on heaven. Pray also that this would shape us as a church – helping us to be joyful in hope and patient in affliction, and to seek first his kingdom and his righteousness.
• The good cross-cultural relationships we enjoy as a multi-ethnic church family.

Please pray for:

• Gospel comfort in light of the recent tensions and unrest following the George Floyd tragedy, which has given many of us painful reminders and frustration at injustice.
• Us as a church to celebrate our diverse ethnic backgrounds and our togetherness as one in Christ, and be blessed by leaning into and enjoying each other’s cultures. Pray also we’d be salt and light as we witness to the estates around us.
• The conversions of those in frequent Bible contact with members of church.
• Those in our youth groups from non-church going families to be drawn to Christ, despite youth groups not being able to run as normal.
• Continued sustaining of those for whom lockdown is particularly hard.