 | We are offering general prayers for:
 | Baptist Missionary Society World Mission:
Baptist Assembly
Blackpool –
Theme - “the hope we
have in Christ” |
| European
Baptist Federation: Union
of Evangelical Christians-Baptists of Azerbaijan |
| Churches together in the Westbury Area:
Westbury Methodist Church |
| West of England Baptist Association:
Southmead (Bethany);
Christchurch LEP Painswick; City Centre Chaplaincy Bristol |
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| Monday 28th April: Pray for
the work of “Second Step” – a Group who strive to provide good quality housing
and support services to those with mental health needs, across Bristol, North
Somerset, S.Glos and BANES.
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| Tuesday 29th April: A
defiant Tehran has announced the installation of 6,000 new uranium centrifuges
as part of a plan to develop peaceful nuclear energy. Pray that this will
be the case and that the technology will be used only for peaceful purposes.
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| Wednesday 30th April:
Please pray for the 400
children who have been taken into State custody in Texas, following
allegations of sexual abuse at a Mormon-led ranch.
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| Thursday 1st May:
The people of Nepal have
finished voting in the first General Election since 1999. The new Assembly is
expected to re-write the constitution and abolish the monarchy; pray that this
will be a peaceful process.
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| Friday 2nd May:
Ask God to watch over all those who work at sea and guard them from storms,
accidents and other dangers. Pray for foreign seamen who have poor living
conditions, are mistreated and suffer as victims of criminal activity on the
high seas.
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| Saturday 3rd May: Remember
children and adults who feel they are different and not fully accepted by
others around them. Pray especially for those who have a disability or some
other personal situation that sets them apart and ask God to reveal his love
to them.
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| Sunday 4th May:
God, whose beauty is beyond imagining and whose power we cannot comprehend,
show us your glory as far as we can grasp it and shield us from knowing more
than we can bear until we look upon you without fear, through Jesus Christ. |
