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Please pray the Lord will give us a breakthrough regarding gospel conversations this year as we commit ourselves to sharing within our community. We have ordered special pens printed with our church’s name and website and all our church members will use them as they share Christ. Every Sunday we will encourage our people to share with one person and give him or her a pen as a gift. We are praying and believing God for the salvation of souls. Thank you.
Please pray for my family and me as we have made the difficult decision to leave the church we love and move to New Brunswick in Atlantic Canada. We want to be a help to my wife’s ailing mother and to (God willing) work to plant and strengthen churches in that needy area of the country. Please pray our kids do well in the move and settle well into their new community. Please pray for me as I begin bivocational ministry by working a secular job. Please pray the Lord will provide for us and protect us. And please pray for Grace Church as they enter a transition period leading to their next pastor and the next stage of their young life.
Please pray for my family. I have two children in college who especially need prayer. Pray for our church and pray also that God would provide for the needs of my family.
I have been away from my family for the past six months and will not unite with them again until July at the earliest. Pray for my wife, Sunhee, as she deals with our three sons alone. Our eldest has autism, cognitive delay, ADHD and seizures.
Our young church has the potential to grow, but we really need a safe place to rent or one we can call our own. Last year, we were protested by a portion of the LGBTQ+ community in our neighbourhood. If we rent somewhere, and it’s found out, we will likely be protested again, and it’s hard to keep a rental space if you are constantly targeted. Home gatherings are very foreign to the people here as they heavily associate the church with buildings, so a house church is not a viable option for us. Please pray we can find someone who is willing to rent to us or that a building becomes available at a reasonable price!
Please pray for us as we transition to meeting in the YMCA in our community. We believe God has opened this door at the right time to enable us to continue to connect with our community and show them the love of Jesus. Please also pray for our leadership team as we lead through this transition and continue to develop leaders who will own the mission and multiply it throughout the church. Last but not least, please pray for our family. Pray we will continue to build one another up and prioritize each other during this season of church planting.
Pray for our church as we continue to reach new people, disciple them and send them into the city of Boston to make more disciples. We have many unbelievers and new believers in our church. We had five baptisms in 2022 and are hoping for 10 in 2023. This means we need more leaders to fill the gaps while we pour into new believers and prepare them to lead in the future. Boston is very transient. Pray for the heartache of saying goodbye to old faces, and pray God gives us the energy to continue to welcome new ones.
I recently started a new position with Westminster at Lake Ridge, which is a retirement community in northern Virginia. Pray for me as I embark on this new journey in my life. This is also a time of adjustment for me and my wife as we deal with time apart, as the job is too far away to commute. Pray for me as I deal with anxiety and depression over a situation at my previous job that caused me to leave and seek new employment.
Thank the Lord, we are in our third year of starting Emanuel Baptist Church of Calgary (IBEC). Thanks to you who pray for us as we continue with our vision of planting a church that will thrive for the next 200 years, if the Lord does not come before! We baptized three new believers last December. We plan to baptize every three months, and we already have at least five scheduled on Easter Sunday. At the same time, our attendance remains at 40 and our membership is 26 members who have committed to carrying out the Great Commission. Our Christmas offering goal was $2,500, and we reached $3,245! Praise the Lord! Keep praying for the spiritual, emotional and physical health of the entire planting team. Pray we continue to have new believers to baptize each quarter. Pray we would become self-sustaining in 2023. Pray our church members would be steadfast in their faith. Pray the Lord would send us those He has prepared for our church. Pray also that we can plant new churches in 2023.
Please pray for me and my family as we transition to living in South Carolina after moving from South Korea. I am taking the Army combat fitness test soon and another important exam in the coming weeks. Pray I would do well on both of these. Thanks for your prayers and support.
Gospel Hope Church will celebrate her first anniversary in April. We celebrate what God has done this past year and look forward to what He will do in the coming years. Please pray for members of our congregation who are struggling. Pray families can find jobs that don’t require them to work on Sundays so they can attend our services. Pray people will come to know Christ through our English as a Second Language classes.
Praise God with us that our adult son, Luke, is healing well after his emergency tonsillectomy in January. Praise God my wife, Vicky, was able to retire from her nursing career after 42 years of caring for people, 29 years of those years spent caring for our veterans in the VA system. I am thankful to have been awarded my official National Association of Veterans Affairs Chaplains certificate and my Hospice-Palliative Care Certification, both of which are mandatory for my VA ministry. This completes a challenging two-year professional journey. Please pray the Lord would continue to grow and make stronger mine and Vicky’s friendship in marriage even after 40.5 years. Pray the Lord would give me boldness and effectiveness in ministering to our struggling veterans. Pray the Lord would open the hearts of the veterans I encounter each day to the love and grace of JESUS! Thank you for your prayers.
Please pray there would be a good outcome for two medical tests I am having. Please pray they both come back with good results and nothing of concern shows up. Pray I can meet new families in our community and share the good news of Jesus with them. Pray for provision of needed resources I would like to have to minister to teens.
I serve as a volunteer chaplain for a small group of aged 50+ previously homeless individuals who are now housed in a community of “tiny homes” called Promise Point. I am revitalizing a chapel service for them and am in urgent need of 10–12 old but still usable hymnals. Please pray the people of Promise Point will come to Christ through our chapel services and that God would provide what we need in the way of hymnals.