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
Last week there was an extra prayer post for the flooding disaster in Rwanda. Bishop Methode explained he had over 120 people taking refuge in the Cathedral.
Moses Kimani organises songwriting retreats. There was a four hour retreat in Nairobi on April 15. Although the retreat was short it was very productive.
The Malindi Diocese (Kenya) mega-mission concluded on April 30. Thank God for the team mobilised from 22 dioceses and organisations.
The Diocese of Toliara in Madagascar is seeing many people coming to Christ.
Collect for the Fifth Sunday after Easter:
‘Explore' is a Bible correspondence course developed by the George Whitefield College in Cape Town.
We have prayed for Bishop Habimfura Vincent. He is the first bishop of the new diocese of Nyaruguru (Rwanda).
We have been praying for the ministry of Rev Justino and his wife Deise in Guinea-Bissau. The mission is supported by the Anglican Church in Brazil.
We prayed for the United Adoration visit to Brazil in March. More than 700 artists from over a dozen churches gathered in six locations.
Anglican International Development (AID), England, has established several micro-finance projects in South Sudan.
Collect for Easter 4: Almighty God, you alone can order the unruly wills and passions of sinful men: grant that your people may love what you command and desire what you promise so that among the...
At GAFCON IV it was announced that Archbishop Laurent Mbanda (Rwanda) would take over as Chairman of the Gafcon Primates Council, and there would be two new vice-chairs, Archbishop Miguel Uchoa (...
Malindi Diocese in Kenya is having a mega-mission (April 26 -30), in partnership with Anglican Missions Africa. Mission teams have partnered from 17 neighbouring dioceses.
Bishop Andudu Adan Elnail from the Diocese of the Nuba Mountains in Sudan was at the GAFCON IV conference. He urged Christians to pray for a ceasefire between the factions in Sudan.
The statement at the end of the GAFCON IV conference in Kigali, is called ‘The Kigali Commitment’.
Last week Archbishop Laurent Mbanda’s adult son, Edwin, died in his sleep. ++ Mbanda and his wife and other members of the family left GAFCON IV to travel to the U.S.
There were great opportunities for networking at GAFCON IV in Kigali last week. The Theological Network Stall was very busy.