Wednesday 10th May 2023

Burnside Blog
Read Monday’s Blog Here
Read Tuesday’s Blog Here​


Beside The Burn
A short  devotional video each day, this week we continue new series in Acts with the work of the Holy Spirit.

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Let’s Pray For Derek and Jane French (global mission workers, Spain)
Give thanks for Derek’s time on deputation in April and pray for God’s provision of two interns from September onwards to work with students and in the churches.

• The Presbyterian Church of East Africa (PCEA), Kenya
Pray for Rev John Gatu, Director, and his staff team as they take forward the work of the PCEA’s Theological Education by Extension Programme.
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Word For Today
Read the Word For Today
https://www.ucbireland.ie/word-for-today/todays-word-for-today/

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Prayer Points For Summer Exodus Team

Eden shared the following points for prayer on Sunday in Church

• Pray for Exodus and the work it does to help young people to develop a closer relationship with God.
• Pray that we would grow closer as a team and be role models both in Donaghadee and when we return home and to school.
• Pray for all the activities we have organised for the children and pray for the courage we need to be able to lead.
• Also, pray for the children who will come along in Donaghadee and for their families that they would come to know and to love God too.

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Christian Unions Ireland
The prayer points for this week.

7th-13th May
Pray for UCD students as their exams begin. Pray for the anxiety and worry students can feel around this time. Pray that they would be relying on God’s strength and not their own and through this busy time that they would continue to a be light to their friends.
Pray for planning for new student leaders in Cork at UCC and MTU, as they seek to build on the great connections that were made with people over the last year and plan to reach their campuses even more fully in the next academic year.

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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 Afghanistan the 9th most dangerous country in the world to be a Christian. Read about it here
​  https://www.opendoorsuk.org/persecution/world-watch-list/afghanistan/

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Jigsaw
The times for yesterday’s Jigsaw

Eddie 3:13
Jean 3:26
​Derek 3:27​

​Play the "Promenade Wednesday" puzzle!
https://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=3305da30e8b7