PRAYVANCOUVER.ca: 2015-04-12

Pray Vancouver Each Day at 10:02 am/pm each day, we ask you to pray for God to call out workers for the harvest. The work is hard and people are facing challenges of all kinds. We ask you to join us. Please pray these words will be a reality in our time.

If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

– John 15:7-8 (ESV)

Pray with Thanksgiving…

We are celebrating the following highlights of Easter Weekend:

Chinese Christian Gospel Church joined all four congregations and celebrated with 7 baptisms.
Richmond Chinese Baptist Church celebrated with 5 baptisms.
Linh-An Vietnamese Church celebrated being joined by many new friends and several coming from the prison ministry with one coming to Christ personally.
New Hope had a great Easter Sunday with around 60 people present. They prayed together for boldness, zeal, and energy to do the work of the Kingdom here in Vancouver.
Canvas Church celebrated by pushing back the doors with 150 present plus experiencing the salvation of one during the service.
The Common Place saw their community groups gather on Saturday evening to share the gospel.
Towers Baptist Church gathered over 100 for the celebration of the resurrection.
The rebuilding of Potter’s House in Kelowna saw 30 gather with their new pastor for a great Easter Service.

We are also celebrating with our Korean church plants as

Beautiful Church has found a new place where their worship capacity can grow.
Han Church has built a good core group of 10 with which to launch a new Church.
His Will Church has launched two bible studies on the university campus as they seek to launch a new church.

Pray for the activity of God…

We continue to pray for the financial resources for a down payment on a church hub location for the Point Church that would provide housing for their growing staff as well as a training location for the church that is near rapid transit to all of their sites and new church plants.

We continue pray for Rhonda Forlow, The River Community, as she continues work with an orphanage located in South Africa providing education and development planning for over 60 children as well as provide a witness to the love of Christ. She is due to return on Wednesday.

We are praying for the personal family counseling sessions and work planned with our leadership families that will be provided this week by the Hardin Simmons faculty and graduate students from the Psychology department serving us in four different locations around our city. We are praying for healthy families and marriages for all the leaders of our churches as we continue to reach the lost in our city.

We are praying for the gathering of all our churches for a time of vision casting and encouragement on April 23^rd. We pray for a movement of the Spirit that will push our churches deeper into relationship with Jesus and onto His mission of reaching the lost in our city.

We are praying for the leaders and their wives that are planning now for a spiritual retreat to Barnabas on Keats Island designed to enhance their marriage and ministry. We are praying for the maximum availability of 26 couples to participate in this opportunity on April 26-28. Continue praying now for the sessions that will be led by Gerry and Connie Taillon, our national leader.