PRAYVANCOUVER.CA 2016-06-04

“When you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites. They neglect their appearance, so that they may appear to others to be fasting. Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward.  But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,  so that you may not appear to others to be fasting, except to your Father who is hidden. And your Father who sees what is hidden will repay you. Matthew 6:16-18 New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)

Celebrate with The Point Church Family ..Please join them is celebrating the birth of SamWoo and Annie’s daughter, Lydia Sechyun Kim. Praise God for this beautiful, healthy gift and pray for Sam and Annie as they adjust to life as a family of three.

We are thankful for the government clearance for the family of Shahid Kamal to join him in Toronto from overseas after over two years of waiting. This family will be relocating this month to launch a new work in Surrey. Please pray for additional partners to undergird this family during these important days.   They are also in need of a three-bedroom residence. Pray fro God’s provision.

We are thanking the Father for the permanent resident status given to the Ashley Austin family as they continue to lead Canvas Church. Pray for final details to be accomplished this week. Pray also as they explore new opportunities to expand their ministry through three team members joining them this month for the next year.

We are thankful for a day of encouragement and training for over 20 of the wives of our local leaders on Saturday of this week. It was provided through a joint effort of the Canadian National Baptist Convention and the North American Mission Board. We were blessed to involve conference leaders from Toronto, Calgary, San Francisco and Vancouver.

We are praying for the ministry in White Rock led by Earl and Merideth Grisaffe as they begin to share the new name for their church in many community outreaches planned this summer. They have selected the name Cornerstone. Pray this will be another step in building a new congregation in White Rock.

We are praying for the weekend of ministry conducted by Church on the Rock and their partners as they serve during the Pitt Meadows Days Celebration this weekend. Pray for the conversations and engagement with the people of the community to bring the Father honour and people will come to experience a transforming relationship with the living Christ.

We are praying for the mother of Mark McDonald as she continues to recover after a brief hospital stay this past weekend, Pray also for the wife of King Lo, Doris, as she has had multiple medical tests including biopsies over the past couple of weeks,

We are praying for a new site for the meeting of Origin Church and the Born For More Ministry after the loss of their former space. Ask the Father to provide a place in such a way it will demonstrate His grace and bring Him honour to those who hear the story.

We are praying for the university students who are beginning to arrive at various sites around the city to serve this summer in expanding the Kingdom. Later this month two teams of GenSend Students will arrive to begin reaching into new areas of our city to share the gospel. Pray for a contagious faith among these prepared students to create an evangelistic momentum that will launch new churches throughout our area.

We ask you to join us in praying for partners to come along side three specific sites in providing not only ministry teams but financial resources for their efforts: The River Community, Burnaby Born Again and the collegiate church planting effort for the entire region. We are praying for new work on three new campuses during the next twelve months.

We ask for pray for the wise and effective completion of the government filings for the permanent immigration of the Brad Forlow family. They are ministering in the Steveston community and guiding the River Community Church. Pray for the enabling by the Holy Spirit to follow their call.

We are praying for the health of Grant Fredrickson who was diagnosed with MS this past week. Grant is seeking to finalize the assessment process in order for us to come along side him in planting a new ministry on Salt Spring Island.

Pray for the Prayer Network for Vancouver and Vancouver Island

With three of the busiest times of engaging our city with the gospel, there are three ways you can personally be involved and you can involve your churches or networks.

1. Several years ago we began weekly publishing the items we are celebrating as well as the needs of our churches and leaders. We seek to make this available every Sunday morning through our website, facebook and twitter so it can be shared for the coming week with prayer warriors across the country. It can be seen at prayvancouver.ca .

2. We began several months ago encouraging individuals and churches to be involved in an effort to stop and pray for Vancouver/Vancouver Island twice daily at 10:02 am/pm. This time was taken from Luke 10:2 to simply ‘Pray earnestly to the Lord of the Harvest to send out labourers into His harvest”. God has been answering this simple prayer offered by those who will discipline themselves to stop and pray.

3. Over the past few weeks another opportunity has come through the conviction of the Spirit of God and the guidance of His work . A group of men have taken on the following commitment and are inviting our churches and their leaders to join them.

We are fasting and praying starting Tuesday evening after dinner at 6:00PM.  Some of our team will fast until Wednesday at 6:00PM             and the rest of us will continue our fast until Thursday at 6:00PM.  We will be praying as follows:

• Spiritual awakening of our churches, locally and nationally, that are called by His holy name (both in and outside our association)
• Christian mento have a renewed relationship with Jesus and a passion in sharing their testimonies concerning their experiences and walk with the Lord.
• Our Canadian leaders in government at all levels, to govern according to Godly principles.
• Our country that it would return to the Lord and be healed.
• Gods protection for our churches and church families.
• Our church leaders (pastors, elders, deacons, lay leaders)
• Spiritual and numerical growth of our churches and small groups
• Pray for the Harvest

What would happen if all our churches committed to this time? What if we all humbled ourselves before our Lord? Would you join us in                     praying the Psalms and petitioning the Lord from His mighty word? Will you join with us until we hear from the Lord?