1.  ALL THE CELL LEADERS AND INTERNS OF THE CHURCH: WITH HUMILITY, TO LEAD; WITH GRACE, TO LOVE; WITH FAITHFULNESS TO SERVE.

2.  THE TWIN EMPHASES THIS YEAR ON THE GIFTS AND FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT; AND DISCIPLESHIP IN COMMUNITY, WILL TAKE ROOT DEEPLY AND BEAR FRUIT.

3. FOR THE YOUTH MINISTRY LEADERS AND MEMBERS: GRACE TO RESPOND TO CHANGES; STRENGTH TO COPE WITH CHALLENGES IN SCHOOL AND LIFE; POWER TO WITNESS TO FRIENDS.

3. ALL WHO ARE ILL AND UNDERGOING TREATMENT: MABEL FROM DFF; AH MUN & MR SOH FROM ZXFET; YIP FROM ENGLISH SERVICE.

4. ALL THE PASTORS, BOARD OF ELDERS AND LEADERS IN CHURCH – FULLNESS OF SPIRIT, FAITH AND UNITY OF HEART.

5. FOR THE NOMINATION OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE A SENSE OF CALL TO SERVE IN THE ELDERS BOARD.

1. The church to welcome the person and work of the Holy Spirit into the church when it gathers every Sunday and into the cell every Friday or Saturday. There would be faith and co-operation with the Lord and not resistance to what he is doing.

2. Pray for the New Members Weekend on the 15th, 16th and 17th of January 2011. This weekend is to help members experience the Father’s love, the Son’s delivering power, and the Holy Spirit’s enduement of power.

3. Pray for the Discipleship 1 track held on Sunday afternoons. The Lord will empower the teachers and facilitators, and give transforming grace to all participants as they apply the Word to their lives.

4. Pray for the Youth and Young Adults as they continue to grow in strength and grace following the Christmas events of December 2010. Pray for life transformation and deepening of discipleship as they attend D1 and meet together.Pray for all the youth and young adult leaders and especially for Francis and Deena Shin.

5. Pray for the Annual Strategic Planning and Budgetting Meeting to be held on the 22nd of January 2011.

6. Pray for those under treatment for cancer: Yip and Mabel.

7. Pray for all the Good News Kids teachers and children to continue in faithfulness and grace as the programs planned for their discipleship are rolled out.

8. Pray for the Deaf Faith Fellowship and the Zhan Xin Fu En Tang pastors: pastor Barnabas and pastor Edmund Loong.

9. Pray for the church cell leaders: grace in the midst of weariness; refreshment as they wait on God; creativity in their difficult situations; and strength for each new commitment.

10.  The Board of Elders, the nomination committee and the Annual General Meeting and the election of elders.

Pray for:

WORLD :

All our missionaries ( Simeon, Salome, Stephen), associates (Ken and Valerie) and the mission trippers to Myanmar.

For all the cells to be fully motivated to invite friends and full of the Holy Spirit and boldness as they share their testimony or the John 3:16 with the visitors to the Christmas event.For many pre-believers to respond positively to the invitations of church members to Christmas events of youth, young adults, and all the services, including the GNK.

REVIVAL:

For the fruit of the Spirit to develop and the spritual gifts to be released among our people.

For the leaders in the worship ministry exco (Kenny, who will be replaced next year by Daniel Yuen, Cavelyn, XieXin, Sarah Phua, Peter Lim), and the ushers ministry (Sunny Chong), and the pulpit committee (Kenny, Paul, Simon) to be full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom to equip and improve the competencies and heart of worship in the various teams.

PRAYER:

That everyone will respond to the Spirit’s call to intimate and intercesorry prayer individually, as couples and families, in cells, in formal and informal groups.

There will be a deepening and consistency in the life of prayer in pastors, BOE, Cell and ministry leaders in the church. May the Lord grant grace and power of the flesh.

FELLOWSHIP:

For more mature cell members to be willing to do basic follow up with those who have or who will come to Christ this Christmas.

For all the cell leaders and interns to be graced and strengthened to intentionally make disciples of the WRPF kind, through thoughtful facilitation of the 4 W’s and motivating members to practise the Word application agreed upon.

For unity of the Spirit to be maintained in the church. For conflicts to be resolved; for offences to be healed; for Satan to be exposed and defeated in his attempts to divide cells, relationships, families and congregations.

Kenny Chee

-For many to be blessed by B2B; divine appointments for the good news to be shared and souls to be drawn towards God

-For all our missionaries and their families

-For Thomas and Jude and pastor John in Yangon

2.  REVIVAL – HOLY SPIRIT’S FRUIT AND GIFTS

- To grow and manifest in the life and ministry of church members.

3.  PRAYER – INTIMACY AND INTERCESSORY PRAYER

-For our people to develop healthy habits of praying 30 minutes a day

-For cell groups to be houses of prayer for one another

4. FELLOWSHIP – DISCIPLESHIP IN COMMUNITY

-For BOE: wisdom, discernment and oneness in decision making

-For all the pastors including Mary Tham on no pay leave

-For all the cell leaders and ministry heads including Sunny(ushers); Judith(gnk).

-For God’s people to be faithful, available and teachable and formed in discipleship in all the cell groups of adults, young adults, youth.

-For worship services to experience the joy of exalting God in praise, and listening and doing his Word.

-For the sick among us.

1.  Repent of self-sufficiency and pride on behalf of our nation and acknowledge that it is God who established us as a sovereign nation and has blessed us.

2.  God’s people unite in Christ Jesus, to rise up in prayer, be an example and lead our nation to bless, love and serve the nations around us.

3.  Transform Singapore to be a nation where joy abounds and her people will love the Lord, serve and care for others in practical ways.

4.  The Church in Singapore will embrace and fulfill her destiny as a centre of Christian witness to the nations, especially in Asia. Hearts to be filled with compassion for the lost.

5.  Churches in Singapore will be united in praying for and reaching the nations for Christ through growth in God’s Word and obedience to the Holy Spirit’s leading.

6.  God-fearing leaders to govern with godly principles and lead with God’s wisdom.

7.  God’s people to rise up and pray regularly for our Government & Leadership.

8.  Salvation of our leaders, and faith and courage to do the LORD’s bidding for those who are God’s children.

-         Pray that all the cell members will make their way there and be ready to unlearn old ways and learn new ways.

-         Ps Chua and Ps Kenny and all cell leaders as they meet weekly for 10 weeks

-         Grace on the cells to change; and corporate morale and hope to rise.

CHRISTIANITY EXPLORED

-         For pre believers to come and be saved when invited by our young adults

-         That it will increase sense of identity among young adults and strengthen the bonds of fellowship among them.

-         For Agnes and team

LEADERSHIP

-Continued unity and focus and integrity among Board members and pastors

-For all the pastors and missionaries

-For all cell leaders: juggling work, family and faith.

WORSHIP SERVICE

-new musicians and singers and sound/visual techies needed

-growth in technical and spiritual areas for on stage and off stage volunteers

-the preaching of the Word and the people to be ready to respond

-transformation of lives, marriages, families, healing and wholeness, revival

S.T.A.R. PROGRAM

-Pray for David, Marcus, Sarah, Mingze as they undergo the 6 week spiritual training program for those in between semesters in their studies. Pastor Chua to impart Word and life and to bond with them.

YOUTH CELLS

-For special bonding and friendships and spiritual growth and discipleship in the newly arranged cells

-For cell leaders to have the wisdom, patience, knowledge and love for the young cell members and to disciple them

-For identity as youth to be strong and healthy, and inter-generational learning to take place in integrated services

-For young people to to experience God’s unconditional love, and grow in love for one another and for the lost.

Pray for pre=-believers eyes to be opened as Gospel is taught and the Holy Spirit to fill them.

Pray for our missionaries and their families: Siau and family, Salome Wong, Stephen Tay, Pastor John. Also our associates: Ken and Valerie. Also our SOFM missions trainee- Jude Ng.

REVIVAL : For the fruit of the Spirit: love joy peace patience kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness and self control; and the gifts of the Spirit to be evident in our community life.

For Holy Spirit to fall upon worship services and cell groups . Open Heaven.

PRAYER : For our parents and young people to be prayerful; intimate with God, deep trust and confidence in God, intercessory prayer.

FELLOWSHIP: For the AGM: election of elders, unity and smooth meeting.

For cell groups to be honest in sharing, deeply caring in practical ways. For church to grow beyond cliques to welcome all visitors and members of different status, race or nationality.

For the sick; Tony (cancer spread to spine and liver); Mabel (rectal cancer)

1. The congregation of English adults and youths will be very clear about the kind of disciple that we want to build: Evangelism and Missions (World), the Work of the Spirit (Revival), Prayer (Prayer), Discipleship in community (Fellowship), and will desire to work together in unity on making such disciples.

2. The evangelistic awareness and action program by Bill Hybels, which is called, JUST WALK ACROSS THE ROOM, will be a great impetus in the church for winning the lost to Christ, and inculcating in members the approach of friendship evangelism.

3. The Alpha Course that will be run in March to May will again see many souls saved for the kingdom of God.

4. For Pastor Newman and his family, and Stephen Tay as they close on chapter in their life and open a new one.

5. For the spate of fire bombings of Malaysian churches to cease and for the high court ruling enforcing the use of Allah in the Alkitab Bible and church services.

The prayer for church administrator has been answered and we have found one! Praise the Lord. That the economy in Singapore is mending quickly.

PRAY FOR….

1. HOPE cell outreach/harvest:

a) for loved ones and friends to be positive and responsive during Christmas to attend the cell harvest event and to received Christ as Savior.

b) that the cells will be prepared and in expectancy of faith to see what God will do when they act in faith and obedience to the great commission.

c) that the spiritual forces of evil will cease all operations against the salvation of lost and precious souls and cell cohesion and unity.

2. For the recruitment of Children’s pastor for the Good News Kids. We have tried Malaysian contacts, Singaporean contacts, and not a single application has arrived. Pray the Lord of the harvest will send a labourer to us.

3. For all the pastors and missionaries as they go through changes and transitions in their lives and do the detailed planning resulting from the consultancy and strategic planning retreat at Batam. Pray especially for Pastor Newman and family as they move on into a new chapter in his life, and for Stephen Tay as he process his term in Turkey and seek the Lord about the future.

4. For all the families and folks to be blessed in their “going out and coming in” during the vacation period. That family ties will be strengthened and deepened and tired minds and bodies refreshed.

5. For Simon and Rinda in their retreat ministry in Chiangmai, usually one of their busier periods, that the Lord will meet with many of the retreatants “face to face”.

6. For Judith Chia and the GNK core group, as she takes over the leadership from Salome Wong.

7. For the Board of Elders who have completed half the year of service. Another six months of serving and loving and leading God’s people. Pray especially for the President Alvin Lim.

8. For the Worship Ministry: the musicians, the worship leaders and singers, the AV helpers. That the Lord will refresh the teams and they will serve with faith, skill, zeal and love for the Lord.

9. For the pastors and leaders of ministry as they plan ministry for the year and implement a new budgetting process: zero and narrative budgetting process.

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