Pray for our Churches - The Digital Prayer Diary

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1. Dronfield Baptist Church Dronfield Baptist Church

   Context: “Dronfield is the best place in the country to live and share Jesus! It is a deeply interconnected town which has the feel of a village, where everyone seemingly knows who you are, but yet the dynamics of a town with much of a what a town can provide. We are known as the church by Sainsbury’s, the church who serves coffee outside on a Sunday morning or the church that does things. As a church we are blessed in having a staff team of three of myself, Zania van Schalkwyk, our children’s and worship Pastor and Joshua Douglass who is our youth worker. We have a very diverse ministry to our town which covers every day of the week and we are blessed in being a church which seeks to live out what it means to be a multi-generational church.

   This last 12 – 18 months have been particularly demanding, challenging and disorientating for us as a church. In these last 6 months we have begun to journey out of this difficult time and our prayer for myself, the team and for us as a church is that we may all know revelation, renewal and revival in our hearts, minds and spirit and that we may be  refreshed, re-visioned and revitalised as we minister Jesus to each other and to our town.”

   Prayers will be valued for Andy Gore who will have started a three-month sabbatical period during which his desire is that he may know revelation, renewal and revival in his heart, mind and spirit and that he may return refreshed, re-visioned and revitalised as he ministers Jesus to the church and to Dronfield.

   Andy is very grateful for the willingness of Zania, our Children’s and Worship Pastor who will be taking on more responsibilities while he is away. She will be supported in particular by Moyra Cameron, a member of the leadership, and by Mike Glover, a retired minister. The prayer is that she will know wisdom, strength and peace in this time.

   The leadership team will be also led through a time of training and development whilst Andy is on sabbatical. This will be led by Mike Glover using the ‘In-Up-and-Out’ shape of leadership so that they may learn to grow and flourish in better ways of meeting, in knowing each other and serving the ministries of the church.

   Please pray for the church as they continue to implement their ‘Doing Life Together’ Ministry model and for them to be richly blessed as they receive a rich and diverse ministry over the next three months.

    

   Please give thanks for:

   · The baptisms on Easter Sunday and for those planned for the summer when they hope to have an outdoor baptismal service.

   · For the many ways in which the church is able to connect with their community by their three toddler groups, three after school groups, two fortnightly youth groups, weekly coffee morning, table tennis group, art group, craft group and our monthly Messy Church.

   · They are very grateful for the different ways their ecumenical life as churches is focussed upon blessing our town through the environmental ministry of the Lea Brook Valley CIO and the developing Life Dronfield ministry - which is in the process of refurbishing the Dronfield Parish Hall into a coffee shop and community space.

   Sent in by Andy Gore.

2. Ebenezer Baptist Church Ebenezer Baptist Church | Scarborough Church |England (rockofhelp.org.uk)

   Please pray for the minister, John Gleghorn, as he settles into his new role with Ebenezer Baptist Church, for Diana Gott as she undertakes her Outreach activities and for Bec Weightman, Pastor at Whitby.

   Please pray also for Springtide 24, happening this Saturday, which aims to unite Christians from across Scarborough in Worship, Teaching and Fellowship.