Prayer Points 2 Feb 2025
Our Church
LR Befriending at SM410 – Thank God that our Living Room befriending team, led by Christina Wong and Timothy See partnered with 12 members across various congregations for their CNY outreach to Sin Ming 410 last Saturday (25 Jan). They were able to present a small CNY blessing and invite them for a friendship meal this Sat (8 Feb). Please pray that the Lord will bring many residents to join this meal, enable more friendships and gospel bridges to be built for the future, and that many more members will engage in such local outreach endeavours.
Youth Ministry 2025
- Youth Discipleship (YD) leaders joined the ZB Peer Supporters, last Saturday, for a workshop on dealing with Youth matters. Youth issues tend to be complex and require careful engagement; in any case, the regular consistent discipling of teenagers calls for wisdom and patience. Pray especially for our twenty YD leaders who meet with small groups of youths weekly, for strength and love as they seek to care for our youths and point them to Jesus. Thank God for our newest group of YD13 that has started meeting from 26 Jan.
- Youth Fellowship (YF) has begun the new year’s calendar, with the new committee having conducted their first session on 25 Jan with over fifty YF-ers participating. Pray for this youthful group that meets every Saturday, to grow into a Christ-centred community that forge godly friendships, while looking to their greatest friend Jesus through the gospel of Luke.
Our Denomination
Emmanuel BPC – Thank God that He provided enough finances for the last financial year and for a smooth budget ECM last Sunday. Please pray for the renewal of license by URA to keep using the current venue for another 3 years. Pray also for another 4-5 ZB members to consider serving there in 2025.
Our World
Nepal – From 8 -28 Feb, a group of 4 from our church will be visiting our mission partner in East Nepal. Since this is winter, there is more time for us to run some training programmes and to fellowship with this small community of believers living in these remote villages. May the time spent together refresh their hearts so that they will persevere in sharing the gospel with others. Pray for safety in all their journeys by jeep or plane as they will be travelling in the mountain, where the roads and weather conditions can be unpredictable.
Indonesia – Our partner has a ministry to various animistic tribes in their Indonesian island. They reported a good attendance of about 1700 who attended the Christmas services in their church plants. The highlight for them was in a place where 90% of the people were still animistic in their beliefs. They decided to replace the usual Christmas service, where people were invited to with a different strategy. They decided to visit them from house to house, bringing Christmas presents and to tell them about what Christmas is and to pray for them. They are very thankful that the ones they visited welcomed them warmly. Pray that the seeds of the gospel sown into the hearts of those visited will grow in faith and obedience.
