Things to Pray for in December
Corrie Ten Boom once said,
“What wings are to a bird and sails are to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.”
What a wonderful word picture, so vivid and descriptive, and what a wonderful truth. We so need the Lord in all that we do, both personally and missionally, and so here’s how you can be praying for us in the month ahead...
Please pray for Joselo Mercado, Mark Prater, Victor Ko & Bob Wright as they head to Colombia from Dec 2 to 6 to spend time with churches in Barranquilla and Santa Marta, and seek to encourage them. Please pray for Joselo and Mark as they preach at a workshop on masculinity on the Saturday in Santa Marta. Please also pray for them as they teach on our seven shared values and share in the 10-year anniversary service celebrations on the Sunday.
Please pray for wisdom for Bert Turner (Pastor at Covenant of Grace Church in Copley, Ohio) as he travels to Brazil from December 2 to 14 to spend time in São Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul. Pray that his time with Pastor Fabiano Medieros and wife, Marcia, and family in São Paulo will be a time to "encourage one another and build one another up" (I Thessalonians 5:11). Please pray for his time with Igreja Graça Soberana in Rio Grande and Pastor Emerson and his wife, Tati, that it may strengthen and encourage the brothers (Acts 15:32). Please pray, as well, for his meetings with four other pastors who are developing friendships with Sovereign Grace Churches.
Please pray for Michael Granger as he continues to lead Trinity Fellowship Church, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, even in the midst of the civil war that is taking place in Ethiopia. Likewise, please pray for Josh Pannell, as he continues to lead Trinity Fellowship Pastors College, our Sovereign Grace Pastors College in Ethiopia, as well as the 11 students currently enrolled in the college. Everyone is safe and accounted for, but they are in need of much grace and wisdom as they look to the weeks ahead.
Please pray for the new ‘SGC Australia - Pastors & Planters Academy’. We currently have six men interested in signing up for next year and we only announced it a few weeks ago! Please pray for wisdom for everyone involved with the application process, we’re eager to plant and adopt more Churches here in Australia.
Please pray that God would draw many unbelievers to Sovereign Grace Churches around the world, as we hold our various Christmas related services and events. Pray also that God would give the members of our Churches opportunities to share the gospel with unbelieving family members, friend, neighbours, and co-workers over this holiday season.
... Just like a great wind in the sails, may His grace abound to us all.