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Weekly Prayer Focus

Psalm 66:19

🔥 Adventurers & Pathfinders

COVID-19 Support: We're all in this together!

As we enter the new stage of lockdown restrictions, we would like to reach out and check on our church family. How is everyone doing?

Under the latest restrictions, there may be some families with no one working/getting a paycheck at the moment. If one of our families or someone you know runs out of food or necessities or times are just tough, please PM me or anyone in church leadership and we will offer support. If you need someone to talk to and pray with, we’re here.

What’s understood never has to be explained... We're here as a church family to love and support each other in tough times. No one has to get through it alone. And we have His promise to be with us always, even to the end of the world (Matthew 28:20).

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Special prayers for the COVID-19 Pandemic
Guide us in the path of discipleship, so that, as you have blessed us, we may be a blessing to others, bringing the promise of the kingdom near, by our words and deeds.

• Pray that we will be sensitive to the needs of others in our community who are suffering additional stresses because of measures that have been introduced to reduce the spread of the virus. Pray especially for younger Australians who are facing mental stress that they will find the help they need. Ask also that God will give us ways we can show His love to those around us.
• Pray for all our Church families who are living in the main areas of concern, that they will be protected from the Virus and show us all how we can be of help to them.
• Give thanks for the increased uptake in vaccinations and pray for all that is being done to share accurate information in the community.
• Pray for great wisdom for our political and health leaders, that decisions they are making will be what are best for our nation and will also receive community support as some of the restrictions are eased in coming days. Show all of us as Australians how we can work together and support each other. Pray that there will be strong cooperation between all states and territories that they will be able to work together for the benefit of all Australians
• Remember all the workers in the health system that are working so tirelessly that they will find rest and strength for each shift they undertake and pray for protection for their own families.
• Pray for those who are from areas of our community that are under-represented in terms of access to vaccines, that these gaps will be filled. Pray, too that wealthier countries will recognise the needs of those in poorer countries who have quite limited access to vaccines and will share from the abundance of vaccines they have
• Pray that the logistics of the delivery of vaccines throughout Australia will run smoothly and the accompanying advertising program will be successful.

General prayer points for this week

• God, thankyou for showing us what love is by sending us Your perfect Son to earth to save us.
• Give thanks for those who developed the program for our “kids’ service” last Sabbath and show us how to continually minister to our younger members and encourage them
• Praise God that many members of our Church family have, in the past, shared some of the things God has shown them through their life experience in our Service on the first Sabbath of the month. Show each of us if any of our recent experience(s) with Him should be shared with our Church family in this way.  
• Rejoice with Leah and Armand and praise God that their five family members who were Covid positive are all making good progress
• Pray for Maxine as she recovers from recent surgery waits for a follow up procedure
• Give thanks that Sean Pennington his making good progress as he recovers from the injury to his shoulder- give him patience as he waits for the bone to fully heal
• Pray for continued healing for Jodi and that she will receive the right treatment at the right time- Guide us also as a Church family as we stand in support of them. Pray, too, for Jodi’s mum, Beverly, in the UK that she will receive the guidance she needs re housing
• Give thanks for the progress made by Boriss and Heidi’s family members, David and Nino in their health  situation, that their recovery will be complete
• Pray for all others in our Church family, especially those facing stresses of various kinds that we might all know that you are the God who cares and we might be able to support each other in prayer.
• Pray for Paul Stewart that his treatment will bring about improvement in his health. Comfort him and grant him patience as he receives this care
• Give thanks thanks that Karen Kilner has made good progress in her rehab that she will soon be fully recovered  from her injury
• Pray for Willem’s mum as she continues her treatment that it will achieve all that is intended. Be with the whole family as they interact remotely with each other in supporting Brenda.
• Pray too, for Simone’s mum and dad, giving thanks that they have been able to move into their new home and begin to settle into the changes that need to be made. Pray, too, for Willem, Simone, Amelie and Madeleine as they “minister to them at a distance”.
• Give thanks that there has been good progress in the repairs to the Kooke’s home that all the work will be efficiently and effectively carried out, and they will recover quickly from the disruption
• Pray for other Church families who have recently moved as they settle into new communities and others that are looking for new accommodation that they will be guided by you as they search

Holy, holy, holy God, fill us with strength and courage, with discernment and compassion, that we may be your instruments of justice and love in this world, that it may be on earth as it is in heaven.