Prayer

Pray for the Celtic Roots Festival

The upcoming Celtic Roots Festival is a response to the LyCiG challenge to be more present in our communities. Another aspect of this challenge is to be praying more for our communities. We will therefore be combining these two priorities at St Edmund’s Church, Crickhowell on 17 October from 5pm – 6.30pm with an exciting evening of prayer for the festival.

Please come and join us for this time for what promises to be a key part of the Celtic Roots Festival. We will explore a little of what prayer can be, will spend time actually praying, and will explore the ways in which we can continue to pray before, during, and after the festival.

Find out more about how to pray for the festival here.

Mission Action Plan

Pentecost 2025 sees the launch of our Ministry Area Mission Action Plan, calling us all to work together as we seek to develop and deepen our own discipleship and service, as well as to reach out to others in our community with the Gospel of Jesus.

The Mission Action Plan is intended to help us all to live out God’s personal call to mission in our local communities. Working together, we can achieve far more than we can as individual churches. I hope that we will all be able to contribute to making our vision bear spiritual fruit for the Kingdom, under the leading and empowering of the Holy Spirit.
Revd Rana Khan
Ministry Area Leader

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We have also prepared a prayer sheet containing a different short prayer to use on each day of the week. Print as double-sided (flip on short edge and fold) and use it as part of your daily prayer routine.

Daily Prayer Sheet

Leading your Church into Growth

Our joint Ministry Area service on 29 October was inspirational with Bishop John Lomas preaching, and input from Mandy Bayton, the Provincial Director of Evangelism.

The key takeaways were that we need to read our Bibles and we need to pray. There are many resources available to help with this; here are a few:

Bible Apps

You Version Bible App, available for mobile devices. This is free to use and has a very wide range of Bible translations available. Audio reading is available for most of it, read by David Suchet.

The Olive Tree is the one mentioned by Bishop John. This is also free, but has fewer translations available for free. It does have one of the easiest-to-use navigation methods.

Prayer Resources

Lectio 365 from the 24-7 prayer network is an audio devotional for morning or evening prayer. It works particularly well for night time prayer.

PrayerMate is an app to help you manage prayer requests, when you feel overwhelmed by the number of different things you’ve been asked to pray for.

Leading your Church into Growth

You will have heard LyCiG mentioned a lot. The LyCiG website explains what it’s all about.

Women’s World Day of Prayer

The Women’s World Day of Prayer is on Friday March 2nd. In 2018 the theme of this international and interdenominational event is All God’s Creation is Very Good and the worship service has been prepared by women in Suriname.

Support for the Women’s World Day of Prayer is well-established across the Ministry Area and three services are planned in local churches and chapels.

St Elli’s are hosting a service, followed by refreshments, at 2pm at the Parish Centre in Gilwern.
For those for whom an evening service is more convenient, there is also a service in Llangynidr, at Sardis United Reformed Chapel at 7pm.
There will also be a service in Brynmawr at the Tabor Centre (the former Baptist Church) in Davies St. at 6pm.

All, including men, are welcome at these services which are always a great opportunity to meet, worship together and share fellowship with Christians from other traditions. Find out more at www.wwdp.org.uk

Ministry Area Prayers

It was good to see so many people from across the Ministry Area at this evening’s prayer meeting. Peter had put together a visual tour of the ministry area with prayer points for each of the ten churches. Mairwen introduced some of the themes we’ll be using in the forthcoming mission and Barry presented a summary of a recent report from the Church Times on the missing generation in our churches.

You can view some of the presentations as PDF files:

Ministry Area Prayer Journey

Writing on the Wall