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
Anglican Aid (Sydney) supplied seeds for planting in Toliara Diocese. In September we prayed for a good harvest.
The House of Hope is a nursery school in a very poor neighborhood of Recife, Brazil, initiated by the Diocese of Recife.
Many young adults in Nepal travel to Malaysia or the Gulf States for work. Covid travel restrictions have resulted in mass unemployment in Nepal.
Bibles for evangelists in the diocese of Goma, DR Congo. Last year we prayed for Bibles for the evangelists in Goma diocese.
The Gafcon Lawyers Network, led by Dr Robert Tong, has developed valuable skills and expertise in establishing legal structures to help faithful Anglicans remain within our global Anglican...
Anglican Missions Africa have focused on training and evangelism. They are also launching an Anglican care ministry that will raise resources to respond to relief and disaster emergency.
DIVCCON - The Divine Commonwealth Conference is a very large Church of Nigeria conference, taking place in Abuja, Nigeria (Nov 8-12).
Gafcon Daily Devotions. Through November, Sammy Morrison, bishop of Valparaiso, (Iglesia Anglicana de Chile) is guiding us through the book of Ruth, with its great themes of faithfulness and love...
Rev Hassan John visits villages in Plateau State, Nigeria, attacked by Fulani Islamists. He brings blankets, food, farming and building equipment, and encourages church leaders to remain faithful...
We have prayed for the Mobile Bible Schools that have been going around Goma diocese, DR Congo, training evangelists, organizing mission meetings, baptising converts, and planting churches.
In 2020 we prayed for Brazilian missionaries, Rev Souza and Fatima, as they moved to Guinea-Bissau to plant an Anglican church.
The Church of the Province of Myanmar. In Myanmar the political and economic situation gets worse. There is insufficient food and people in rural areas particularly are in danger of starvation.
In August we prayed for wisdom about starting a church plant in Canguaretama, in the diocese of João Pessoa, Brazil. Thank God that the church is to have its first meeting on November 2nd.
Last year we prayed for Healthy Church training, led by Anglican Missions Africa, in the diocese of Mumias, Kenya. A recent report shows that 8 churches were planted in the past 12 months.
Anglican International Development (AID), England, is undertaking an agriculture project for the Keliko people (originally from southern South Sudan) living in refugee camps in Uganda.
In Valparaiso diocese in the Iglesia Anglicana de Chile they are planting a new church in Playa Ancha, despite just emerging from an 18-month period of no physical church meetings.
The 'Always Forward' conference trains church planters in the Anglican Church in North America.
The Anglican Church in Nepal is growing very fast. The National Theological College is small and providing vital training to students coming from remote parts of the country.