Prayer Notes from Friday 24 January 2025

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Pray for the Sunday services. D Parker is due to take the morning service in KILWINNING and P Carr both services in AYR.

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· Upcoming Communions The two communions have been postponed but the one in Ayr should be on the 9th of February with the one in Kilwinning shortly afterwards. Please pray that these will be times of encouragement for the two parts of our congregation.

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· Give thanks for the encouraging prayer meeting in Ayr this week. It was good to have this being led again by Hector M from Kilwinning. There was a good turnout and several different people praying.

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· Continue to pray for those grieving, those with health issues and those in care homes.

 

· Give thanks for the good turnout in Ayr last Sunday morning. This was not due to visitors

but people who generally struggle to get out to church managing to attend on the same week. It is good that so many do make the effort to attend church in person. But we do appreciate also that the services are available online for those who can’t.

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· Please continue to pray that God will bring new people in to the congregation in Kilwinning and in Ayr.

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· Free Church Youth Camps Pray for the preparations taking place to arrange the summer camps. Pray that as campers continue to register, logistics will fall into place.

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· Prison Fellowship Scotland Pray for the light of Christ to shine in dark places, bringing peace to prisons and hope to those who feel lost.

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· SU Scotland Praise God for the longstanding relationship between SU Scotland and Circle, who refer young people affected by imprisonment to SU Holidays. Pray for new, developing relationships with Families Outside, Crossreach and a few Christians Against Poverty debt centres, who are seeking to refer young people from families they support to SU Holidays.

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Dumisani

· It is with a heavy heart we pray for Nolundi, one of the cleaning staff at Dumisani Theological Institute, who lost her daughter in a tragic murder on New Year's Eve. Please pray for Nolundi and her family for the divine comfort of the Lord.

 

· Pray that textbooks and books for graduation could make their way to Dumisani Theological Institute as quickly as possible. There have been increasing difficulties in getting such needed materials to Dumisani with bags missing or not being delivered. These materials are really needed for Term One.

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Free Churches

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Grace Church Montrose

· Our vision is to see a healthy church established and flourishing in Montrose. Pray with us as we work through Colossians that we would be rooted in Jesus. Also for us to find a new venue as we are outgrowing where we meet now.

 

· The other element of our vision is to see churches started and strengthened throughout Angus & Mearns. Join us as we pray particularly for Brechin, that Jesus would raise up workers for that town.

 

Buccleuch

· We are running a Christianity Explored course in the Spring. Please pray that non-Christians in our congregation, our circles of friendship, and from the wider community will come and encounter Jesus.

 

· We have a new session of Student Suppers beginning this term. Pray that we will disciple our students and young workers so they will grow in love for God and his church, and also build strong Christian friendships together.