Let’s Pray For Diane Cusick (global mission worker, Zambia) Pray for Diane to be strengthened by God in heart, mind and body as she progresses along the road to recovery from serious illness. 

South Sudan  Pray for immediate humanitarian assistance in South Sudan, especially for food security, water, sanitation, hygiene, health services, and education, for more than nine million people, half of them children.

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Word For Today
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​Open Doors - World Watch List
Open Doors has updated the World Watch List. The list of countries where it is most dangerous to be a Christian in 2023. 
The full list can be found here
https://www.opendoorsuk.org/persecution/world-watch-list/


This week the focus is on Libya the 5th most dangerous country in the world to be a Christian. Read about it here https://www.opendoorsuk.org/persecution/world-watch-list/libya/

Christian Unions Ireland
The prayer points for this week.


5th -11th March
The CU in Dublin City University (DCU) have been working hard to engage with and bless their
campus this year. Pray for them this month as they hold a mission week, build on their involvement
in campus life and invite their friends to come and consider Christianity.
Praise God for a year of growth in Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) CU. Most of the committee
members are final year students. Pray for the current CU leadership as they handover to the new
committee. Pray for the new committee as they begin to pray and plan into the next academic year.

Let’s Pray For Rev Rodney Cameron, prison chaplain at Hydebank Wood College and Women’s Prison Give thanks that in Hydebank, the book of Philemon is being read together where Paul asks a church leader to take back a young man from jail. The task of imagining what Paul might have said to the young offender has been set and what God might say to them.

Westbourne     Pray for Rev Mervyn Gibson and the congregation; that they would be filled with the love of Jesus and seek to share that love with those in the surrounding community.

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Word For Today
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Christians In Ukraine
One Year Later, Christians in Ukraine Say, ‘We Wouldn’t Want to Be Anywhere Else’

READ MORE HERE

Ukraine
Ukraine, one year on: how the UK church can keep doing its part

READ MORE HERE 

John Motson (1945-2023)
The legendary football commentator was a man of sincere Christian faith

READ MORE HERE

Let’s Pray For Moderator

Pray for the church’s leadership remembering that they too are human, encountering disappointment, temptation, weariness – all opportunities, at the same time, for grace to work good things too.

Worship: Delighted in the wisdom of God’s truth        

Your statutes are my delight; they are my counsellors. Psalm 119:24.

Ask God that his people would find delight in the wisdom of God’s truth for their lives in worship today.

St Petersburg Christian University, Russia   

Pray for wisdom for the university leadership in the face of significant challenges and that the students will be able to focus on their studies in very unsettling and uncertain times.

Portugal     

Give thanks that CPV has been formally established as a congregation of the Christian Presbyterian Church of Portugal and pray for the congregation’s first elders who were ordained on 19 February. 

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Word For Today
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Lent -
​Begins Today Wednesday 22nd February 2023
This year for Lent we are going to follow “Truly, Truly I Say To You” by Adam Ramsey. We are going to listen to the sayings of Jesus from every chapter of the Gospel of John. Each day there is a thought based around the saying a prayer and a reading from Charles Spurgeon. You can pick up or order a copy at local bookshops, or by using the links below. There will also be a few copies available in Burnside for £7. Please have the correct change available.


You can buy the book from The Good Book Company Paperback for £8.49 or digital for £7.99
https://www.thegoodbook.co.uk/truly-truly-i-say-to-you


Or from Amazon Paperback £9.99 or digital £7.46
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Truly-truly-say-you-Meditations

Let’s Pray For Disability Services CommitteePray for the Disability Services Committee as they meet in the coming week. Guided by Rev Stephen Lowry (convener), pray they will make wise decisions regarding the oversight of the provision of care in Aaron House, Willow Brook, Topley Terrace, Lawnfield House and Kinghan Church. Remember the managers, staff and residents of the Services, as well as staff and members of Kinghan. Pray that they will be blessed and encouraged in their daily routines. 

PCI’s Press Officer  Mark Smith is PCI’s Press Officer, supporting the work and mission of the church through media engagement and providing advice and support to colleagues, congregations and presbyteries. Pray for wisdom, grace and creativity; and that Jesus would be glorified through his work.  

General Council

Pray for the various committees, panels and task groups meeting during the incoming week as 
they draw up reports for council meetings during the month of March. Pray particularly for conveners as they begin to plan for reporting to the General Council in June.

Council for Training in MinistryUnion College held an Open Evening on Thursday 23 February for anyone interested in its BA in Theology. Give thanks that the first cohort of students are making great progress, and pray that a good number will apply to start this September. Details are on the Union website: www.union.ac.uk

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Word For Today
Read the Word For Today
https://www.ucbireland.ie/word-for-today/todays-word-for-today/

Lent -
​Begins Today Wednesday 22nd February 2023
This year for Lent we are going to follow “Truly, Truly I Say To You” by Adam Ramsey. We are going to listen to the sayings of Jesus from every chapter of the Gospel of John. Each day there is a thought based around the saying a prayer and a reading from Charles Spurgeon. You can pick up or order a copy at local bookshops, or by using the links below. There will also be a few copies available in Burnside for £7. Please have the correct change available.


You can buy the book from The Good Book Company Paperback for £8.49 or digital for £7.99
https://www.thegoodbook.co.uk/truly-truly-i-say-to-you


Or from Amazon Paperback £9.99 or digital £7.46
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Truly-truly-say-you-Meditations

Let’s Pray For South Belfast Friendship House Pray for Rev William Harkness, Carol Reid and the various volunteers as they run the different kids programmes each week. Pray that the children would come to know Jesus as their Lord and Saviour.

Taughmonagh   Pray for Rev Robert Love and the congregation as they gather for worship each week, that they would encounter the Lord’s presence and would go deeper in their fellowship with him.  
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Word For Today
Read the Word For Today
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