Praying for St Matthews 2

It's been encouraging to hear stories of how people are sensing God's spirit as they pray together.

We'd like to continue to encourage you to join with one or two others on a regular basis to pray for our congregation during this time of looking for a new minister.

This week we turn from thinking about where God is at work in the community around us to considering the bible stories or verses that are coming to us as we seek to understand where our community finds itself now.

What Bible story or verses come to mind/heart as you pray for St Matthews? What do you sense this might mean?

We realise that this is a deep and challenging prayer focus - and encourage you to use the next two weeks to pray and listen and then feedback.

Praying for St Matthews 1

The Elders Council would like to encourage the congregation to meet together in twos and threes or their small groups to pray for our congregation and to listen to what God may be saying to us as we search for a new minister - we'll be having a different focus for prayer and inviting people to send their feedback to the Elders and JNC as a way of inviting the whole congregation to be involved in the discernment process which with we have tasked the JNC.

Further details can be found here.

The prayer focus for weeks beginning February 27 and March 6th

Where do you sense God at work in St Matthews? In Baulkham Hills and surrounds?

The process we are asking people to use is to spend time with one or two others or your current small group in prayer. After you have prayed take time to talk to each other about what you were hearing/sensing. If the group is in agreement, please leave your feedback as a comment to this post.