NBA Relay Prayers for the Week from 31st July - South Bank BC (Middlesbrough)

Give thanks for:

A number of recent conversions and baptisms

More and more people becoming involved in the life of the church

A number of new links with people in our community - particularly through a busy food bank

 

Please pray for:

Our Lunch Box scheme - 50 local schoolchildren coming 3 times a week throughout August for an hour of activities and games and receiving a packed lunch

Wisdom - big decisions need to be made with regards to our building, our children's and youth work, and our leadership structure

Minister: Rev Jon Edwards
Website: www.southbankbaptist.org (and on Facebook)

NBA Prayers for 24th July - Easington Lane IMC

Pray for:

 

A number of our members who are suffering from ill health and are unable to attend.

 

Our outreach to the local community and for the groups which a number of our fellowship attend and hold positions of office in those organisations.

 

We have held a meeting, with a free meal and an after-dinner address, for our members and a non-church friend invited by each member. Pray that we may see some of these people seeking further interest in attending services and otherwise involving themselves with us.

 

Pray for Future events reaching out to the community

 

Our August Holiday Club, with an Olympics theme, for local kids

 

Following a recent Quiz Night, in September we are planning a number of events (including a Vintage Afternoon Tea) to encourage local people to join us on an ongoing basis

Ministers: Syd Grey, Mary Grey. Jan Merton
Website: https://easingtonlaneimchurch.com

NBA Prayer Relay for week from 17th July - West View BC, Hartlepool

Give Thanks:

For provision for the refurbishment work which has enabled our church building to be fit for purpose, and the ability to continue phase 2, which is well on the way to completion

For the loving fellowship at West View and all those connected with our church

For the privilege of over 60 years of mission on the West View Estate

 

Pray:

That we may strengthen and build up our links in the local community

For 'Holiday at Home', 1st to 5th August

For 60th Anniversary - Our Story - reaching out to the community 6th to 11th September

For growth in youth and children's work

For the elderly and infirm of our fellowship

Minister: Rev Tim Hyde
Website: www.wvbc.org.uk

NBA Prayer Relay for 10th July - Thornaby BC

We can give thanks:

• We give thanks for new faces coming to Church.
• Food Bank - shows God at work - the provision of food, the volunteers - we give thanks for all these things.

We ask for prayer:

• Pray for God to change lives at the Food Bank.
• We need a person who can relate to youngsters and bring them together.
• We need a way forward and give thanks for present opportunities and a way to develop them.
• We want to grow - spiritually, as well as numerically - and for this purpose we have been given opportunity to work with a retired minister who will be the Mission Pastor from September.

NBA Relay Prayers for week from 3rd July - Blackhill BC (Consett)

Give thanks for:

 

• Our children who come midweek to Trailblazers
• Our Teenagers who come to the youth Café
• The families who come along to Messy Church

Pray for:

 

• Our Prayer Walk on Monday 4th July, starting from church at 7pm and lasting about 1.5.hours.
• Holiday At Home for those older folk who are unable to get away. It will run on three Wednesdays: 27th July, 10th August and 24th August.
• The problem we are facing with our buildings…..dry rot! That we will be able to rectify the problem quickly.

Pastor: Rev Gary Collier
Website: www.blackhillbaptist.org.uk

NBA Relay Prayers for the week from 26th June - Wallsend BC

Please pray for:

 

Church members, however they voted, as they come to terms with the EU vote decision

The forthcoming wedding of Julie and Michael in July

Repairs being done to the church in preparation for the wedding

Youth Matters summer outing and children's safety over the hols

Increased numbers in our Junior Church

Minister: Rev Sarah Harmsworth
Website: www.wallsendbaptistchurch.webeden.co.uk

NBA Prayer Relay for Week from 19th June - Stockton Baptist Tabernacle

Prayer requests:

Give thanks for the continued momentum the gospel seems to have among those seeking asylum in the UK and based in Stockton. Please pray for protection, especially on those who make a public testimony about leaving Islam and becoming Christians - we haven't had any trouble yet, but some (not all) Muslims will think our new friends should be killed.

Please pray also that we would find new ways of reaching Stockton's long-term residents with the good news of Jesus; as a town centre church we struggle to find a community we can engage with.

Give thanks for the nine years our assistant minister David Taylor-Black has served here... this summer he and his wife Sharon and their 4 children are moving to Gloucestershire where he will become the Senior Minister of Gorsley Baptist Church. Pray for a good move, for a great start to their ministry there, and for the Tabernacle as we work out what do next as a result.

Senior Pastor: Rev Andrew Waugh
Website: www.thetab.co.uk