Welcome to this week's DIY Sunday Service Kit.
In our series 'IRrelevant' on the way the Christian message really doe tackle the issues real people have in real life, we come to the issue of 'Loss' ... loss of all sorts.
There's a taster to come after our opening song, a totally new one from City Alight, 'Grace'
The sermon today tackles the big issue of the adequacy of God in our experience of all sorts of loss.
Here's a quick introduction to whet your appetite!
All our worship songs today come from City Alight
- this one's a bit of a spoiler for the sermon, too!
Let's pray today for Wales
Union School Theology
Yesterday, fifty people finished their studies at Union School of Theology in Bridgend.
Far from all of those will be setting out to serve the Lord in Wales!
But let's pray that the Lord WILL, though, settle each of them exactly where He wants them to be at the start of useful and fruitful lives in Christian ministry.
Evangelical Movement of Wales children's camps
Camp 1 starts on July 22nd and is led by Pete Campbell and Sharon Owen at Bryn-y-Groes near Bala in North Wales.
Camp 3 starts the same day at Woodcroft Christian Centre, Chepstow and is led by Matthew Jones and Helen Jackson.
Please pray for the young people going on these camps to be kept safe throughout all the activities and for many of them to be brought to clear and settled faith in Christ.
Please pray great compassion, kindness, wisdom and energy for their leaders and for all the challenges of the week to be met prayerfully and in a God-honouring way on these camps.
Royal Welsh Show
The Royal Welsh Show runs from 24th-27th. July this year in Builth Wells.
There will be a team of people leading outreach there from the Evangelical Movement reaching out to the visitors and we will ourselves be up there on two full days moving around amongst the exhibitors in full rural chaplain attire(!) looking for people we know or can meet for the first time to share Christ with them.
Please pray that spiritual fruit will come from all of this summer outreach at y Sioe Fawr ... the big show.
The Station Café
We have made progress in reaching what could be a real turning point in the long trek to taking on the tenancy of the Station Café with a really important meeting with the people who really do seem to be the ones who will decide the matter for us THIS MONDAY around lunchtime.
This is the latest in a steady stream of positive developments in the last couple of months ... please will you pray that we finally get a base to use as a hub to reach out to the community in Llandovery?
(Thanks for sticking with this project ... it's been a long time!)
Lord we pray for our land of Wales in its spiritual need and in its widespread rejection of you.
We pray that, as you have shown great mercy and worked powerfully in previous generations you would dob so again in ours bringing people to life-changing faith for your praise and your glory, for Jesus sake.
AMEN.
Please click this link for the Bible reading
The video version is here ...
Let's pray
Father we thank you for the reassurance we draw from your Word whatever our circumstances.
Help us, whatever this week throws up, to cling to the might and the faithfulness of our God to us, and with joy to remain committed to Him in our turn.
We ask for Jesus' sake.
AMEN.
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