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Prayer Meeting for 24 June 2016

Prayer Meeting

(24 June 2016)

Prayer Points

I. Great Commission Month (July)

Prayer & Praise:

- Praise God that about 50% of the campers in the June church retreat indicated that they are praying for the salvation of someone. May God answer their prayers and bring joy to heaven and earth.

- God to protect the health and time of our 5 speakers: Pastor Arnold, Pastor Oliver, Rev Michael Shen, Mr Teh Seng Chuan & Mr Richard Lai.

- Pray that our speakers will be able to discern God's will and be His mouth piece. They will speak and present God's words clearly that challenge our people to obedient actions.

- God will prepare the heart of our congregation to be good soil that bear fruit & be sensitive to God's prompting in reaching out to people around them and to the ends of the world.

 

II. Grace News

Prayer & Praise:

- Praise God for a new coordinator who will be joining us this July.

- Praise God for providing us with the writers, interviewees & illustrators for this issue. It has been a very challenging issue and we marvel at how everything falls into place despite a number of unexpected changes & delays.

- Praise God for Ps Arnold and Yee Kiat who have been writing regularly for us for many years!

- Praise God for Thomas Choong who has been faithfully taking photos of events & processing them very quickly for our use.

- Pray that the layout team will have the time, wisdom & creativity needed to finalise the July issue.

- Pray that the newsletter will exhort and encourage our readers to build up one another for His glory.

- Pray for wisdom & humility as we meet in July to plan the next issue.

 

III. Youth Ministry

Prayer & Praise:

- Youth Ministry is still going through the Gospel of Mark. Please continue to pray that God will use His Word to continue to teach the youths about Himself and why the Gospel is relevant to them.

- Youths are currently going through their school holidays. Many have shared a desire not to waste their holiday. Please pray with them that they will use their time productively & that God will use their time to teach them more about Himself.

- Please be praying for our youth group outing this month. We will be going out in our small groups and we hope that it will be a time for the youths to know each other and their leaders better.

- Thank God for our youth outing to Uncle Chong Tien's house which provided the youths with an opportunity to get to know Uncle Chong Tien better as well as spend time playing board games with each other.

 

IV. Discipleship Seminars Ministry

Prayer & Praise:

- For GBC members to make learning God's Word a priority in their lives. We desire for God's people to hunger for God's ways.

- For God's enabling power for the teachers to humble & submit themselves in their preparatory work, to allow the Word to speak to them first before teaching the Word.

- For God's wisdom for the teachers to manage their time well while they prepare for the lessons as they have many other competing commitments.

 

V. Children Ministry

Prayer & Praise:

- We thank God for the break in June and also for those who volunteered to teach in their stead.

- We thank God for two very good working discussions between the teachers on how we can work together better for the children.

- Please pray for the teachers in the 2nd half of the year that the material will speak to them and God will speak to the children through them.

 

VI. Worship Ministry

Prayer & Praise:

- Please be in prayer for the planned fund raising Reformation concert that was just announced.

- Pray that good participation among the congregation as we work together as a community for this project. We are praying for an 80-100-strong choir and also about 20 orchestral musicians including a band.

- Pray that the planning team will seek God's wisdom in planning for the concert

-Pray that the concert will be able to proclaim the truths of God in song & Scripture & give glory to God & Christ our King.

- Please continue to pray for the sound ministry to have more volunteers come forward to serve in this area.

 

VII. Church Retreat 2016

Prayer & Praise:

- Praise God for the 123 people who had a blessed & refreshing retreat reflecting on the theme “Gospel & Community”.

- Thank God for providing our home church speakers to speak God’s messages through the sermon and workshop discussion so clearly to the retreat campers to deepen the understanding of the gospel of Jesus Christ & apply the gospel to our Church Community.

- Thank God for His protection, provision, the ideal resort &everything to make GBC Retreat 2016 such a memorable & spirit-filled community experience.

- Praise & thank Him for His strength in sustaining the Retreat Committee & keeping all healthy before & throughout the retreat.

- Praise and give glory to God for a successful GBC Retreat 2016.

- Pray for all the retreat campers to remember & apply what they have learnt & share with those who did not go.

 

VIII. Church Rebuilding

Prayer & Praise:

- Site work progress. The 5-week delay in work schedule is slowly being caught up due to good work progress. Work on the third level of the church superstructure has started. Please pray for good weather & sound site management by the main contractor so that the lost time can be recovered without compromising safety.

- Site work safety. Praise God that no incidents occurred in the past month. We do not want to take work-site safety for granted. Please pray that the Lord will keep all the site workers safe & in good health.

- Church rebuilding fund. As of 19 June 2016, we are thankful to have raised just over 11.1 million dollars for our church rebuilding fund. Continue to pray that we will trust on Him as we continue to give joyfully & work together to reach the final goal.