PRAYVANCOUVER.ca: 2015-03-15

Each Day at 10:02 am/pm, we ask you to pray for God to call out workers for the harvest.  There are currently over 50 individuals considering the call of God on their life to come to Vancouver and join a church or church plant to reach people with the Gospel.

The work is hard and people are facing challenges of all kinds.  Please pray these words will be a reality in our time.

Preserve me, O God, for I take refuge in You.
I said to the Lord, “You are my Lord; I have no good besides You.”
– Psalms 16:1-2 (NASB)

Pray with Thanksgiving…

• We are celebrating with The Point a successful university conference that will be celebrated in a special baptism celebration this morning at SFU pool.
• We are thankful for the 70+ young people involved in the sports camp this week in Victoria that was conducted by Canvas Church and for the members of mission team from Starkville, MS who assisted in conducting this outreach.
• We are thankful for the ministry, Easter invitations and outreach conducted by Towers Baptist Church and the Southern Mississippi University Group who assisted us in touching our city.
• We are thankful for the support and financial assistance that was given to Send Vancouver through the Immanuel Baptist Church In Highland California for the support of our team.

Pray for the activity of God…

• We pray for Hamish Buntain as he travels in key parts of Asia during the next week to better understand the countries and their cultures as well as comprehend activity of God as it connects with Vancouver.
• We pray for the outreach events planned for next weekend by Zendeh Church being conducted with the assistance of Harvest Baptist Association.
• We pray for the upcoming Vision Tour which will be held starting March 30.  We ask specific pray for efforts to support Primera Bautista and Zona Cero in their multiplication efforts.
• We pray for wisdom to help a couple committed to reach muslim people in our city and serve them while sharing the gospel.  We pray for wisdom in all of our efforts to share with the people from aroun d the globe.
• We pray for wisdom and favour as leaders are seeking to reach the second generation of many of the people groups in our city.  We ask for the building a contagious core groups for the launching of new churches in four different places in Vancouver.
• We join in praying with the leaders of the Potter’s House Church in Kelowna as they seek to restart their church.  Pray for the preparation of their new pastor and financial resources to expand the Kingdom in the Okanagan.
• We pray for the planning of our churches as nine different mission teams are seeking to support efforts to reach our city.  Pray for the effective linking of these resources in the days ahead.
• We pray for the recruiting of the first cohort of interns for Origin Church (Pastor Craig O’Brien) who will serve beginning in the fall of 2015.  We are praying God will call our 6-8 students for a nine-month term and provide the financial resources need to prepare this special team.
• We pray for the current assessment of four new couples that are seeking confirmation of God’s call on their life to move to British Columbia and launch new work in a variety of context in our province.  Pray also for the two additional couples that have already resigned positions and are preparing to move to the Lower Mainland to join teams who will begin this summer to launch new church sites.
• We pray that we will be able to enlist 26 pastoral or planter couples from Vancouver and Vancouver Island for our retreat to Barnabas Camp in Keats Island in the next month.  We ask for the Father to guide parents in securing childcare so these 26 leadership couples can withdraw to refresh, rekindle and ignite a deeper love for God and for each other.  Pray for those that will speak at the retreat.  We pray God will provide the final financial resources needed to provide this critical ministry.
• We pray a team of people will develop during this year who will be able to build and sustain the prayer foundation of our region on a weekly basis.  Pray God would confirm in their heart a deep long term commitment to be a watchman on the wall.
• We continue to pray for Pastor Hyeon Soo Lim from Toronto and his family as they continue seeking his release from North Korea.  The family and the church community is asking fellow Canadians and the international community to continue praying for his release and safe return home.  Peter Yoon (Origin Church) attended this church when he lived in Toronto.