PRAYVANCOUVER.ca 2015-8-16
Pray with Thanksgiving…
We are thankful for the reports of a good time of fellowship by the eleven churches who participated in the Annual WestCoast Baptist Association picnic over the long weekend.
We are thankful for the reports of baptisms reported: Chinese Christian Gospel Church (17), The Point Church (1) and Vietnamese Linh-An Baptist Church (4) with seven coming to Christ this month.
We are thankful for partnership with FBC Broken Arrow where over 30 who participated in the River Community soccer camp and 20+ men and boys participated in the Men’s Night Out at Towers Baptist Church.
We are thankful for the report from Westlyn Baptist Church of over 80 participating in their annual sports camp and outreach on the North Shore.
We are thankful for the life of Dr. Wong (CCBC) which was celebrated at his funeral service this past week.
We are thankful for the witness of life of Jim and Vivien Yoder who celebrated 60 years of marriage this past week.
We are thankful for the arrival of Pastor Gary Smith and his family as they join the staff of Royal Heights Baptist Church this week to launch a church-planting network.
We are thankful for the successful joint family camp of Richmond Chinese Baptist Church and Towers Baptist Church that saw over 80 people participating at Quest University in Squamish, BC.
Pray for the activity of God…
We pray for the final opportunity of several of our leaders to pull away for a few days of much needed vacation with family and loved ones. We are praying for the refreshment of bodies and the renewal of hearts for the ministry. We are also praying for laughter as families have the opportunity to play together.
We ask for your prayers for a team of our leaders who will leave families to travel to Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia over the next two weeks to visit with new and old partner churches to talk and pray about the future of our work in Vancouver. Pray for sensitivity to the voice and activity of God to be witnessed by all during these days.
We continue to pray for the healing of broken relationships created over the past two years in one of our churches as the legal proceedings grind to an end. We pray for the priority witness of Christ each day as publications report the findings.
We pray for the Summer Youth Celebration and the over 150 young people who will travel to Gordom Lake the last week in August. This week we pray for the decisions these students will make during this focused experience with Christ and the community of faith. We pray for the wisdom of leaders to respond effectively with the sensitivity to working of the Spirit in each life.
We begin praying for the launch of a church focused on reaching the people of Pakistan living in Vancouver, by a planter who has completed the assessment process. We pray for reuniting of his family from Pakistan and Toronto.
We continue to join Church on the Rock as they seek to initiate a new congregation in Maple Ridge and as the planter arrives this fall.
We are praying for Sam Woo Kim as the Point prepares to initiate the NextGen Church in the Port Moody area. Pray for the support of this effort.
Join us in praying for the final preparations to relaunch Potter’s House in West Kelowna and their new pastor, Wayne Campbell as he moves over the next month from Alabama to join a great group of people who have been meeting for the past several months in Kelowna. Pray for the final details of sale of home, moving and restarting as they are finalized in the coming days.
We pray for the over 15 leaders already committed to visiting our city during the month of September for vision tours to discover a congregation and site where they can establish a long term partnership.
Pray these words over our cities…
This week as you spend time in personal prayer may we ask you to pray for the leaders of our region to receive this portion of Scripture and allow it to transform their lives as they experience the Joy of seeing Jesus and understand they are a sent people..
After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord. Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.”
John 20:20-21 NIV
We thank you for praying for the items listed on this pray post whenever you have the opportunity to pray. As we continue to plant all kinds of churches in all kinds of spaces for all kinds of people, we invite you to join many of us each day at 10:02 am/pm, as we pause briefly wherever we are to pray for God to call out workers for the harvest in the manner of Luke 10:2.