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
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.
Gafcon Ireland runs an annual Theology Ireland program. The idea is that theology is for everyone and is important for every ministry.
In the Diocese of Toliara in Madagascar there has been a very rapid growth of people becoming Christians.
One of the challenges is to provide ministers for the congregations.
This prayer is part of the Gafcon Collect.
It is very much in the context of Gafcon's objective of guarding and proclaiming unchanging truth in a changing world.
In January we prayed for the financial planning for the Diocese of Barishal, the Church of Bangladesh. Rev. Dn. Suchitra Behera reports that God is faithfully providing for their needs.
We have prayed for the youth ministry in Kampala Diocese, Uganda. Paul Geno, the diocesan youth leader, reports that they are planning the first ever Kampala Diocesan Youth Convention.
The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia is scheduled for May 8-13, 2022.
Continue to pray for Christians in northern and central Nigeria who experience constant danger from kidnappings, murder, destruction of homes.
Almighty Father, who gave your only Son to die for our sins and to rise again for our justification, grant that we may put away the old leaven of malice and wickedness and always serve you in...
In October 2021 we prayed for Pastor Rodrigo Cavalcanti, a teacher at Seminario Anglicana de Teologia (SAT), the theological training college for the Anglican Church in Brazil.
In June 2020 Bishop Jean Pierre Methode Rukundo became bishop of the new Missionary Diocese of Karongi, the Anglican Church of Rwanda.
Moses Kimani is a United Adoration leader in Kenya who is organising song-writing workshops this year.
Dancan Baraka (Anglican Missions Africa) has been leading School Outreach Training in four locations over the last two months - Katakwa, All Saints Cathedral, Butere and Nambale.