Prayer
Welcome to the Fuel for Prayer page
Johnny Lockwood (Prayer Network leader) gathers daily prayer requests and items for praise from around the world, which you can follow by scrolling down on this page or on the Gafcon Facebook and Instagram.
Para ler os Pedidos de Oração desta semana em Português visite o site https://www.gafconpt.org/pt/intercessao
Para leer las Peticiones de Oración de esta semana en Español vaya al sitio https://www.gafconpt.org/es/intercessao
The Gafcon Collect:
Eternal God and gracious Father, whose blessed Son Jesus Christ died for our redemption; commissioned His disciples to preach the good news; and sent the indwelling Holy Spirit in every generation to embrace and proclaim salvation in Christ alone:
Arise and defend your Church, the pillar and bulwark of the truth. Shine the light of your Holy Word upon hearts darkened by error and strengthen the work of Gafcon so that the Anglican Communion throughout the world proclaims Christ faithfully to the nations, that captives may be set free, the straying rescued, and the confused restored. Bind your children together in truth, love, unity and courage, that we, with all your saints, may inherit your eternal kingdom, through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Amen.
PrayerMate App
Johnny has also introduced the Prayermate app to help keep the Gafcon family up to date with news from around the world. This is a very useful app for organising daily prayer on your smartphone.
Go to http://praynow4.org/gafcon to find instructions for how to get the Prayermate app. Then 'subscribe' to the Gafcon feed - add subject / Church Life / World Churches / Gafcon. It is a free app and a free subscription. You can also use the QR code below.
Global Anglicans Moment & Prayer
Global Anglicans Moment & Prayer is an initiative for churches around the world so that each week they are kept up to date with news and a prayer item: https://www.gafcon.org/moment-and-prayer
Throughout the Gafcon churches worldwide we are looking to build up the faithful global Communion by sharing these bulletin updates in Gafcon churches' media announcements. We are seeking to have a Gafcon representative or advocate in each church who will be our point of contact for the Moment & Prayer items. If you are a church staff member and/or an active church member who is using the Moment & Prayer news then we would love to connect with you and email the weekly updates to you. Follow the updates on website and social media with the hashtag #globalmomentandprayer
Please email [email protected] if you would like to find out more and be added to the group of Gafcon Church Representatives/Advocates.
Interceeding for the Persecuted Church
Faith McDonnell, co-leader of the Suffering Church Network, recommends Open Doors' World Watch List 2021 to interceed for our persecuted brothers and sisters around the world, click here to find out more.
Daily prayers from around the world
In August 2022 there is a Gafcon Australasia Conference in Canberra, Australia.
Heavenly Father, please sustain your people in the Church of the Province of Myanmar.
In March we prayed for Anglican Missions Africa providing training in Butere Diocese (in the west of Kenya). Today is day two of a four-day mission in Butere.
GAFCON IV.
Thank God for progress working on the budget. As invitations go out in the coming weeks pray that people will be guided by the Lord in how they respond.
The Jonglei Health Sciences Institute (JHSI) in Bor, South Sudan, trains midwives and medical clinicians. The JHSI is supported by Anglican International Development (England).
In October 2021, we prayed for St Patrick's School of Mission, in Toliara Diocese, Madagascar, that it would be able to increase its capacity to respond to the revival taking place.
O Lord, from whom all good things come, grant to us your servants that by your holy inspiration we may think good thoughts and by your merciful guidance put them into practice through our Lord...
The Anglican Mission in England (AMiE) is a growing Convocation of Anglican churches in England committed to church planting. Their vision is to have 25 congregations by 2025 and 250 by 2050.
We first prayed for Healthy Church training in Niassa Diocese, in Mozambique, in 2019. Since then, over 100 churches have been planted in the Diocese.
Suffering Church. W is an Anglican priest in a country where Christians are under constant pressure.
GAFCON IV. Paul Mirrington (Australia) is the conference administrator for GAFCON IV in Kigali, Rwanda, April 17-21, 2023. At the moment he is working on setting a budget.
Christian Afghan refugees (about 120), are being sponsored by the Anglican Church in Brazil and supported by Anglican Aid, Sydney. Different churches 'adopt' families as they are able.
Anglican International Development (AID) are helping the people of Gondokoro in South Sudan.
O Jesus, I have promised
To serve thee to the end;
Be thou forever near me,
My Master and my friend;
I shall not fear the battle
Thank God for a mission week in Goma in DR Congo during Easter week. On Saturday, April 17, twenty four converts were baptised.
The House of Hope is a nursery and junior school sponsored by the Diocese of Recife in Brazil. In March we prayed for safety from Covid and for the Lord's blessing.
Captain Canon Richard Mayabi (Anglican Missions Africa) is travelling to Mozambique.
The Holy Cross Theological College in Yangon is the theological seminary for the Anglican Church of the Province of Myanmar. They have recently started in-person classes.