WEB ADDRESS: www.missionireland.org PRAYER FOCUS: 11 – 17 June 2014

MODERATOR OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY Pray for:
The Moderator as he attends the following:

•   Thursday 12 June 50th Anniversary celebration of Corkey House 6.30pm Speaking at a Service in Corkey House
  
  7.30pm Speaking at a Service in Glencairn City Mission Hall
  
  
•   Friday 13 June Speaking at Opening Service of Drumreagh Flower Festival
  
  BOARD OF MISSION IN IRELAND
  
  HOME & IRISH MISSION
  Donabate Church Plant – Revd Andy Carroll Praise and Prayer for:
  
  
  •   Give thanks that the General Assembly passed the resolution to make Donabate a full congregation in PCI.
    
    
  •   Give thanks for the 14 people who have gone through membership classes.
    
    
  •   Please pray for the period of vacancy in the autumn that constitution to be a full
    
    congregation will trigger.
    
    
  •   Pray for the Church Day Away to Red Cross in Co. Wicklow on 14 June.
    
    Ballina, Killala, & Ballymote Presbyterian Churches – Revd Molly Deatherage
    
    Praise and Prayer for:
    
    
  •   Give thanks for a wonderful evening of gospel music by James Kilbane in Killala Presbyterian Church. Pray for further ideas to raise our profile in town.
    
    
  •   One of the women in the Ballina congregation has begun opening the church once a week to try to sell some Christian books and to talk to anyone who comes by. She has had an opportunity to share her faith every afternoon she’s been open. Please pray for more people to come by, for an openness to the Gospel, and for a positive response.
    
    Naas Presbyterian Church – Revd Mark Proctor
    
    

Praise and Prayer for:

•   Praise God for an invitation service recently which was based on the “It’s Not What You Think” resource. This went really well, and we pray that God was at work in people’s hearts. Pray too for follow-up opportunities.
  
  
•   Most weeks we teach some classes in a local national school (primary). There are only a few weeks left of this school year, but we pray that God will use our involvement to reach young lives for His Kingdom.
  
  
•   Recently we started a monthly prayer-time. At the first one I was especially struck by prayers for unsaved family members. This is prayer we all can echo; for our own unbelieving friends and loved ones.
  
  Drumkeeran, Killeshandra, Cavan & Bellasis Presbyterian Churches – Revd Jean Mackarel
  
  Prayer and Praise for:
  
  

•   RTE Televised Service: June 15 at RTE Studios. Pray for the minister, Cavan group of churches, Choir and Quintet, musicians and readers, as they prepare for another combined televised and radio service, to be broadcast at the end of July.
  
  
•   Give thanks for the opportunity to share God’s Word with so many in Ireland and overseas.
  
  
•   Give thanks for the opportunity to share Gospel Music, Bible Readings and Bible Quizzes with so many in Ireland and Overseas, via Radio Gospel Ministry, ‘Airs & Praises’ on Sundays at 10.00pm.
  
  
•   Pray for energy for the minister at the close of a busy Sunday, and vision to prepare and present ‘live’ this much loved weekly Radio Gospel Hour (running since 1991).
  
  Westport – Rhonda Glass and Karen Burns
  
  Praise for:
  
  

•   Praise God for good opportunities in the shop over the past while.
  
  
•   We thank God for His continued provision for the free Bible offer. It is thrilling to think
  
  that 360 Bibles have now been given out.
  
  
•   Pray that God’s Word and the Holy Spirit will speak clearly to all who come and convict
  
  those who need the Lord.
  
  John McCandless, Community Outreach Worker – Mountpottinger & Mersey Street Presbyterian Churches
  
  Praise and Prayer for:
  
  

•   Give thanks for Friday Men’s Group, and the Men’s Fellowship on a Tuesday evening which has been born out of it.
  
  
•   Please pray for our planned Friday trips out to various places of interest around the province; that not only will our group enjoy time together and be safe, but that this will be a tool to strengthen relations and provide an opportunity to present the gospel so that hearts may be changed by the Holy Spirit working in lives.
  
  
•   Thank God too for the success He has brought and also for the short “time of reflection” each Friday lunchtime and how the men have come to look forward to hearing little truths from God’s Word.
  
  

Eleanor Drysdale, Deaconess – Wellington Presbyterian Church, Ballymena

Pray for:

•   The Holiday Bible Club from 16 – 19 June, and for the Church BBQ on 20 June.
  
  
•   Pray for all the preparations that have to be made for the Holiday Bible Club.