Weekly Prayer Letter

Prayer Diary For Week Commencing

Sunday 1st Dec 2024

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Please pray about the problem of Global warming, thought to have been the main cause of the severe weather that we have had in various parts of the world this year.  The aim is to keep average temperatures to less than 1.5 degrees centigrade above what they were before the industrial revolution.  Experts think that this will be exceeded this year for the first time.

 

Please pray about the problem of pollution in some places where people bathe.  The number of these areas that are monitored that are rated as poor has more than doubled during this last year, partly due to 27 new areas being included.

 

Please pray that the ceasefire in Lebanon will become permanent and that both Israel and the terrorists will not use it to regroup and start hostile action again.  Also pray that there will be a similar ceasefire in Gaza.

 

Please pray for the many children who are receiving and watching harmful material on their phones and computers.  Pray that measures to stop this will be more effective

 

Please pray about all the political instability in Europe.  In some places it is leading to extreme right wing parties having much more influence.  Pray that people will realise the dangers of this and not vote for them.

 

Please pray about the control that gambling has on many people.  Pray that there will be effective control over gambling on-line.  Many families are affected.  Pray that people will remember that the chance of making money is extremely low and therefore not worth the risk.

 

Please continue to pray about the ongoing war in Ukraine.  Pray that there may be a ceasefire and a solution to these hostilities.  At the same time pray for the many other areas of the world where there are hostilities going on such as Sudan, Syria and Yemen.  Pray for everyone who are having to leave their homes so as to be safe, not knowing when they will be able to return and whether their house will still be there.

 

Please pray for our preachers who are preaching next Sunday.

Pray for the preparation as well as the service.

Susan Chambers taking a Communion service at Waltham, Patrick Mickleburgh taking the service with us

at Scartho and Inga Greet at North Thoresby.

 

Please pray for the Christians in Tunisia. It is number 33 on the Open Doors at risk list.  Only a tiny minority of Tunisia’s population of 12 million are Christian in this largest Muslim country.  For many Christians the pressure they face is widespread and constant.  While Christians from other countries are largely left alone, Tunisian believers experience high pressure in every area of life facing hostility and abuse from their families and their surrounding community – including beatings and death threats.  It can be dangerous to share their faith, so many of them are forced to worship Jesus secretly, because exposure would endanger them – they may be monitored by Tunisian security services.  This is particularly true for believers who’ve converted from Islam, because the country forbids religious conversion.   Christian women and girls in Tunisia are particularly vulnerable.  They may be physically beaten, expelled from their family, put under house arrest, threatened with death or sexually assaulted.  Men who convert from Islam to Christianity are believed to bring shame upon their families, and therefore face rejection, intimidation, beatings and death threats.  Pressured by their families, Muslim wives will leave a male Christian convert, and he may be denied inheritance or even access to his possessions.  They can also be detained by police for faith-related reasons.

 

Please pray for the church in Uzbekistan.  The church is tiny with most of the population being Muslim. 

Uzbek believers continue to increase despite great opposition for the government, local Muslim leaders and the community (family and neighbours).  There are now probably more than 10,000 Uzbek believers, where there were possibly none only a generation ago.  Christians are often accused of being cultural/religious traitors.  Poor young people are often recruited to extreme Muslim groups making conditions for Christians more insecure.