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Mar 11
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Prayer week: meeting 6 Social action
We concentrated on praying specifically for two initiatives we are running as a Church through this session. The Bridge, our work with those seeking to live free from addiction and the Well, our work seeking to support women struggling with postnatal depression.
Jackie Medler started by sharing some stories of the life change that has gone on at the Bridge, we didn’t really need much more motivation to start to pray for God to do more and for us to see more of the individuals from the Bridge coming into a living relationship with God and becoming pillars within the church.
From the starting point of the Bridge it led us to pray that we would always be a welcoming community as a church where no one would ever feel excluded.
Alison Stunt then shared how things were going in the Well and the need for wisdom to know how to take thing forward and the way inwhich the Well is gaining a positive reputation within the city. It was great to then give ourselves to praying for wisdom in knowing the right way forward and for increased influence to change how women are cared for in the city.
To finish off as we ran out of time we quickly called on God for provision for finances as we have lost £150k of government funding due to a change in policy. With faith we called on God who is able to provide all we need!
Mar 10
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Prayer week: meeting 4 kids and youth
When you know you’re getting to pray for 75 kids and youth how can it ever be boring!
We spent time thanking God for the kids and youth we have and for those who faithfully work with them week in week out…from thanks we began to pray for each of the kids and youth that they would grow in their knowledge of God and that we would have increasingly more people serving in this vital area of church life as the need is very great! We specifically called on God to provide leaders that are needed in the XGT group.
We felt led to pray for the parents of Oasis that they would have wisdom to equip their children to understand how their faith can interact within the world that we live in…which naturally lead us to pray for our kids and youth that they would know God’s protection as they navigate their way through life.
One couldn’t help but leave with a sense of privilege in praying for the next generation to surpass all that we have done and known…and with a sense of excitment of how God is continuing to add more into this vibrant area of church life!
Mar 09
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Prayer week: meeting 2 ‘everything’
This time really lived up to his heading of ‘everything’ as we got time to pray for the many ways Oasis is impacting and changing the city through the lives of those who are part of Oasis. It was amazing praying into the many areas individuals are working within, both employed and voluntary, and realising each individual was not alone but was being Oasis extending God’s kingdom in each of those settings.
As we prayed you couldn’t help but be impacted by the fact that what we use to dream of doing is now what we are actually doing!!
As we prayed God quickly encouraged us as to how He values where each individual within Oasis is placed. How he yearns to affirm the call of where we are rather than us continually feeling like we need to hear God call us somewhere different.
Within the time we also felt drawn to pray for the continuing impact we can have together in and through the Cricket Ground and its staff…and from this focus to pray that we would be in more Sunday’s than not in the new marquee, not for a nice buildings sake, but to act as a large space to build many others in!
Most definitely an hour worth being out for!!!
Mar 08
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starter for 10…
…or should I say 10:10 (sorry bad pun!!) This morning saw the start of our first prayer week of 2010. We picked up on the theme of the year 10:10 (CB code) that God’s message to us is clear to love God, to love people and therefore to rescue and he is now awaiting our response.
On the back of this call we looked at Colossians 1: 13 “For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves,”and then spent time thanking God for our rescue. We then went onto pray for God to rescue those we know individually and are in contact with directly as a church.
As we prayed God reminded us to continue to enjoy and explore our rescued status as the more we do the more it impacts our desire to rescue others.
Mar 05
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Week of prayer…
Hi All, hope you have had a good week. We are nearly entering our week of prayer which I always find an exceptionally exciting time of community life as we give ourselves to calling on God. We have much to thank God for and much to ask so I want to encourage you to come along next week.
We will be gathering each day at 6.30am and 8pm at Edgbatson Cricket Ground each time for an hour and will be covering the following areas:
Mon am 10:10
pm lives of rescue – ‘everything’
Tues am Small groups and community
pm Kids and youth
Wed am Momentum and impact
pm Social action
Thurs am Birmingham and other churches
pm A big tent and an Olympic challenge
Fri am Nations in this city and outside
pm Everything: change, thanks and ministry
