Welcome to the DIY Sunday Service Kit almost half-way now through this sunny month of June!
This week we're in our last but one session in. Colossians concentrating on Jesus and finding out why it really matters that He is really God.
Here's a quick insight into where we start with this ... but this is certainly not where we're going to end up with it!
Now for a really sound, tried and tested expression of Christian faith, expressed afresh for us here through the ministry of Celtic Worship.
We do well to make these sentiments our own as we sing ...
Let's pray for our world in its brokenness, and
give thanks for the Lord's interventions in turning back its darkness.
We pray today for
Kherson
The blowing of the Kakhovka dam near Kherson has not only taken an unknown number of both Ukrainian and Russian lives, but knocked out very extensive irrigation of one of the most productive areas of food production in Ukraine ... once known as 'Russia's bread basket' because of its huge agricultural production.
Agricultural experts warn fields in southern Ukraine could "turn into deserts as early as next year", as vital irrigation systems, which depend on the vast Kakhovka reservoir, cease to function.
Even before the cost of the current losses is calculated, international markets have taken note. The flooding helped to trigger a sharp rise in global wheat prices, which will have knock-on effects in the poorer countries of the world (which rely heavily on food-grade Ukrainian wheat) and on livestock feeds in the western world affecting prices in our shops.
Drinking water for many towns and cities beneath the dam is also bound to be affected, but the effects of this have as yet to be calculated.
Water is a necessity. Let's pray for everybody affected by this terrible event.
Mostar
The Evangelical Church of Bosnia-Herzegovina is starting next week to run its programme of camps for children from all sorts of home backgrounds, which will run throughout the summer.
We've seen these camps develop over the last twenty years from camps where the sessions all fell to people like our second son Ben, into camps where those leaders have brought on young people from the various churches who now do a lot of the sessions themselves ... but with missionaries and church leaders like Ben now supporting from the background. Somehow, though, it always seems that crises emerge that make this a really busy time for elders and missionaries in any event!
Let's pray for mature and new leaders, for strength, wisdom and enthusiasm, and that children and young people for whom this is their only time away throughout the year will have a great time at camp and come to know the Lord Jesus for themselves.
Planning for a Conference on Reaching Rural Wales
Our focus on Rural Wales at the recent ministers' conference has fired up interest in a conference to stimulate and communicate between instances of pioneer outreach and church revitalisation in rural Wales, which y GRWP had been working towards for some time.
Please pray for plans that are being laid for an autumn conference to energise recent interest and galvanise it into action would prosper and bear fruit!
and give thanks for ...
Bala Ministers' Conference
We asked for prayer for Simon speaking at the Bala Ministers' Conference last Tuesday.
It was deemed by others present to have gone very well and we now both give thanks for that ... because it could easily have back-fired ... and for those who were stirred and stimulated by having been there on the night.
(See above for prayers prompted by how things went!)
The re-opening of our 'candidacy' for the station café
We are now about ten days from having been assured that we are still very much in the running again for tenancy of Llandovery Station Café.
As many of you will know, this looked very much as if it had disappeared as an option.
Let's give thanks as we pray for this to go through and be made possible in the providence of our God.
Good contacts for our friends at Pantycelyn during yr Urdd Eisteddfod
Finally, although we were disappointed not to have the Station Café open by the time the Urdd took place in Llandovery, we were really encouraged by accounts of meetings and ministry that flowed from the exhibition and hospitality laid on by our friends at Memorial Chapel throughout the Urdd week.
Let's rejoice with those who rejoice and pray that the Lord will bring lasting spiritual fruit from our friends' labours.
Lord, hear our thanks and our prayers from your Heavenly throne and show your mercy and your grace in your world.
We ask for Jesus' sake.
AMEN.
As we prepare to read Scripture,
we make the words of this next song our prayer
Please click on this Bible to be taken to today's Bible reading
Click on the little preacher below to go to the transcript and audio version of today's sermon,
or scroll on down for the studiocam video
Let's pray
We give you thanks our Lord and God that reflecting through your Word
on your person,
on your Divine greatness and Glory,
feeds our souls.
Take us into the coming week we pray with soul-protectingly large thoughts of Jesus,
and may our thoughts in your presence guard our souls.
We ask for Jesus' sake.
AMEN.
We have a song to play out with today, but first, if you would like to join us in worshipping by giving t the work of y GRWP please click the offering bag below.
If we can be of help to you or if we can usefully pray with you about an issue on your heart, please contact Simon on 07748 44958 (it's helpful if you can text or WhatsApp first to make sure I'm neither driving Norwich someone at that point, but in emergencies please feel free to try to phone through as soon as you need to!)
Have a great week!
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