Spiritual Reflections

It’s good to pray together, share together, encourage one another and learn together.

At various points in the year, the YBA produces resources and reflections to encourage churches to think about Lent, Advent and other key times in our Christian calendar, so do keep an eye on this page.

YBA Prayer Diary 2026

w/c Sunday 28th June

Hope is Here: Mexborough Baptist Church, Doncaster

Please remember the folk of Hope is Here: Mexborough Baptist Church in your prayers this coming week.

For thanksgiving

  • For the growing number attending Jesus-centred outreaches

  • For the encouraging number of children joining on Sunday mornings

  • For the blessing of a building and for financial provision

For prayer

  • For a clear and strong transition into the life of the church for those we connect with in our ministries; for relationships to deepen and faith to take root

  • For more workers for the harvest – may God raise up willing and equipped people to serve and to lead

  • For a strengthening of discipleship for both new and existing believers to grow in maturity and confidence

You can find out more about the ministry of the church through their Facebook page here.

Middleton Park Baptist Church, Leeds

Please remember the folk of Middleton Park Baptist Church in your prayers this coming week.

For thanksgiving

  • We give thanks for the recent Baptisms of Favour and Mandy and  pray that the Lord will continue to strengthen them in his love and service. 

  • We give thanks for those taking part in the Alpha course. We pray that the Lord would continue to draw them close to himself, that they would come to know Jesus as their Lord and that they would grow in devotion to him. 

  • We give thanks for our young people and pray that they would continue to grow in faith and develop their giftings.

For prayer

  • For workers. The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. We need more mature believers who are able to disciple young believers and help seekers to find faith in Jesus.  

  • For the development of youth provision for our church teenagers. We are short of available people to help and lead. 

  • For the summer programme, as we reach out to the families in the area. Pray that the Lord Jesus will encounter people with his love. Pray for strength and health for the core team and for new people to join the team. 

You can find out more about the ministry of the church through their website here.

The “why and how” of our YBA Prayer Diary

Prayer undergirds the work of the YBA. Prayer demonstrates our utter reliance on God and our care for one another. One of the ways we do this as a staff team and wider Baptist family, is by regularly praying for all our churches through the year using the YBA prayer diary.  Thank you to all who have been doing this faithfully or maybe even sporadically. For those who may not know, each week, a couple of our churches are featured in the prayer diary and become the focus of prayers from other churches and people across our Association. We may not always know the specific needs of these churches, but we hold them in our hearts in prayer before the Lord, seeking His blessing over them and their ministry.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we were additionally to be able to pray for the specific, expressed needs of our featured churches each week?  That is exactly what we want to do – to raise up the specific needs of our churches before God’s throne of grace in obedience to His word: “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.” (Phil 4.6). 

Ahead of their scheduled week, we invite our featured churches to send in their prayer requests and thanksgiving points. This is uploaded to this section of our YBA website. Any church who, for any reason, is unable to respond to our invitation will still be prayed for.

So be on the lookout for your church’s invitation to send in your prayer points and also do check out this area of the ‘Prayer & Spiritual Reflection’ section of the website, each week, so you can pray with knowledge for the needs of our churches across Yorkshire.  We look forward to celebrating specific answers to prayer as we join together in praying for our churches.

If you have any questions about the administration of the prayer diary, please click here to contact the Admin Team.

Nike Adebajo

YBA Regional Minister

Download the 2026 Prayer Diary