NBA Prayers for 298th June - Blackhill BC (near Consett)

Give thanks

·         for the 31 young people who recently went on the 'weekend away' with the Youth Café leaders, Gary, our minister, and his wile Val.

·         for the families who come along to our monthly 'Messy Church'

·         for the youngsters who come to our weekly children's outreach 'Trailblazers'

 

Pray for

·         The leaders and workers in the 'Youth Café', Messy Church and Trailblazers.

·         For many of our members who have health problems at present

·         Those who have recently joined our morning congregation, especially those who are wanting to become more involved and the gentleman who has requested to be baptised.

Pastor: Rev Gary Collier

Website: www.blackhillbaptist.org.uk

NBA Prayers for 21st June - Thornaby BC

Give Thanks

For our privilege to be engaged in mission and ministry in our local community: through our food bank, schools work, and various other activities based in the church and community.

For our Intern, Ben, who has been a gift from God to us and has served the people of Thornaby with real faithfulness - making a difference in Jesus' name.

For Home Mission support, which has enabled us to support our Minister in Training for the past 3 years (Alan will be Ordained on Saturday 11th July, 2pm at Stockton Baptist Tabernacle, all are welcome)  

 

Please Pray

For the church's ongoing mission and ministry through these changing times as both our Pastor and our Intern move on during the Summer.

For those who are grieving having lost loved ones.

That people may see that we are Jesus' disciples by the way we love Him and one another.

Pastor: Alan Brand

NBA Prayers for 14th June - Hamsterley BC

We have ongoing concern over small numbers regularly attending Sunday services (only four regulars). Give thanks for the faithful witness of the few.

We are considering further use of the building as a Prayer Centre for a wider area. Pray for wisdom and discernment as we pursue this.

We work with Bishop Auckland BC, who support us by coming to us on the 5th Sunday of the month. Give thanks for their commitment to us.

There is great spiritual need in a generally affluent and complacent village. Pray that the Spirit may move in this place.

Our pastor, Trevor Rowe, has oversight of both churches. Give thanks for his ministry and pray for him.

Pastor: Rev Trevor Rowe
Website: http://hamsterley,thenba.org.uk/

NBA Prayers for 7th June - Lithuania

Give thanks for the growing partnership, for the work of Ian Britton and John Claydon in developing this relationship, and for the work of Lina Toth (formerly Andronoviene) and Irmantas Pinkoritis in their warm and helpful responses to us. May God bless all the Baptist churches in Lithuania and enable them to be more effective and powerful as salt and light in their communities.

 

Please pray for:

God's blessing and deepening of our mission partnership with the Baptist Union of Lithuania. On 16th June, five folk from the Association and Northern Baptist College will be travelling to Lithuania for a week, visiting five churches to preach and teach about mission.

the team: Paul Revill, Bill Clegg and Alistair Menzies from the NBA and Andrew Phillips and Lanre Banwo from Northern College - for God's protection, for him to use the team greatly as they meet and share faith with folk from the Lithuanian churches; and also that they will gel well into a team - they will not have met as a whole team until the flight out to Lithuania.

the Lithuanian churches, that they will be encouraged and stimulated further in thinking and practice of mission.

our relationship with the Lithuanian churches, to move towards a new phase where we engage in more mission to those beyond the churches, not just supporting and encouraging those within the churches.

Ask God for his hand of protection to be upon the whole country, which is increasingly feeling insecure with Russia as a near neighbour, based upon the intervention in the Ukraine.

Prayers provided by Rev Paul Revill (NBA Team Leader, Mission)

NBA Prayers for 31st May (Trinity Sunday) - "The Tab"

THANK YOU for your prayers for our evening service - numbers are up, due in part to the excellent preaching series right through the book of Revelation by David Taylor-Black. As this series draws to a close on 31st May, please pray that we'd meet the Lord by his Spirit through his word in our next series.

Please continue to pray for more musicians to step forward.

In August we are sending a team of teenagers to do youth and children's work in rural Uganda. In October we're sending an adult team to do gospel preaching and development work in schools and prisons. Please pray for the finances, and then for safety and fruitfulness... and for anxious relatives back home.

Give thanks for the continued level of unity among several central churches in Stockton, Baptist and others. We have jointly given out 4,000 TryPraying booklets - please pray that unchurched folks would learn to pray and give their hearts to the Lord to whom they're praying!
 
Thanks very much!

Senior Pastor: Rev Andrew Waugh

Website: www.thetab.co.uk

NBA Prayers for 24th May (Pentecost)

Give Thanks:

 

For the gift of the Spirit whose presence assures, comforts, strengthens and equips us. Rejoice that the Spirit who was there at creation and through whom Christ was risen is at work in our lives.

 

Our mission partnerships with Texas and Lithuania; our involvement in world-wide mission through BMS World Mission and links which our churches have with many other mission initiatives around the world. Here in the North East we are helping to change the wider world.

 

We thank God for the privilege of learning and that education is free for our children and young people.

 

Pray for:

 

A greater openness to grow in the Spirit, that his presence within and amongst us may be clearly evident, and that all churches would lovingly and powerfully move forward with the Spirit's enabling.

 

The strengthening of our mission partnerships, especially for wisdom regarding our Texas partnership, with the initial five year covenant now having come to an end. Also ask God to deepen and develop our partnerships for mission with one another across the NBA. Pray for the proposed mission week in Bishop Auckland from July 20th - 26th - for this project to be the starting point of a greater movement of internal mission teams serving one another across our region.

 

All our young people who are sitting exams over the next few months that they may be able to think clearly, work diligently and handle with all the tensions and anxiety of this time.

NBA Website: www.thenba.org.uk

NBA Prayers for 17th May - Marsden Roads Baptist Tabernacle (South Shields)

Please pray:

for Graham White, who is retiring at the end of June, and for the Church as they seek God's guidance in the weeks and months ahead. 
for the deacons as they shoulder a lot more responsibility in the coming months.

for our Wednesday Afternoon Meeting of elderly ladies, called The Friendly Circle. Having gone through a change of leadership in the last year, they are doing well.

 

Give thanks for the deacons, especially the two who have been elected for the first time at our recent AGM.

Praise God for the work among the young people of the church on Sunday Morning, and during the week with our Uniformed Organisations (Brownies, Guides and three sections of the Boys Brigade).

Minister: Rev Graham White

Website: www.baptisttabernacle.co.uk