Thank you for praying for us.

Thank you to those of you who continue to pray back home for us as our friends and prospective partners in a new work (how glad we are that these are not mutually exclusive and that our prospective partners are our friends). To help you in prayer, particularly if you are planning on joining us in future ministry, here are some things that you can be pursuing:

Presence: God's presence to go with us; to echo Moses prayer of Exodus 33:15 "If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here." We ackowledge that without God we are nothing, apart from God we can do nothing, unless God provides it we have nothing. We would ask that He empower us by His Spirit to serve Him, be guided by Him so that all the glory will go to Him.

People:God to add to the number of people with a holy desire to participate with their whole lives invested in this new work-that we would come together to pursue lives of worship in awed celebration that God has called us out as "a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy." (1 Peter 2:9b-10).

Place: God to direct our paths as to the right place to meet, a worship centre, office accommodation and the provision that we need to have these places. David knew what it was like to meet with God's people and to be together in worship. Here is what he says in Psalm 42- "These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God, with shouts of joy and thanksgiving among the festive throng." Unlike David, who longed for a place of worship- the temple in Jerusalem- we know that our worship is not restricted to a place, but is found in a person (Jesus Christ) who lives in us by a Spirit and who we are called to worship in every place and every time. Yet we would pour out our soul, crying out for God to provide a place where we can gather together to worship Him.

Partners: For receptivity among other churches to what we are seeking to do. That the encouraing response of one particular church leader would be replicated by others. That some of these churches might be able to identify people who would benefit and be of benefit from being part of such a ministry. That we would see the spirit of what Paul describes in Galatians 2 replicated in Glasgow: "James, Peter and John, those reputed to be pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship when they recognized the grace given to me. They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the Jews. All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do."