Hi everyone,
Below are the prayer points for the event:
ADELAIDE:
- Pray for our up-coming Youth Outreach - service on Sat 29/04: pray for the speaker, service leader, the music ban, singers, ushers and so on
- Pray for our 6 young people who are currently completing the baptism class
- Pray for the all the Youth Groups around Australia and VECA Youth - for them to grow both in faith and in number
- Pray for all the Vietnamese people in Australia who have yet to know Christ
- Pray for Dai Hoi at the end of the year
SPRINGVALE:
Long term prayer points
- For Ong Ba Muc Su and their family, God to bless them in health and in their ministry.
- For the Church Deacon, for leadership and diligence. Also their health and vision for the Church
- For Instil and Ignite, to be more united, to be God orientated, rather than group or socially orientated.
- For Ignite and the Church as a whole to reach beyond our walls
- For Ignite and Instil leaders, their health, strength, Godly wisdom and to receive guidance from God to lead the respective group to uphold God’s glory.
- Igniter’s relationship with our Lord in their daily lives, bible reading, devotion and partners.
- To become more understanding with the church elders, to have unity among all divisions of the church.
- For Ingite and Instil to have a Youth Pastor
- For Ingite and Instil to have Youth orientated service.
Intermediate Points
- Ignite election, for people to accept God’s calling. Pray that God himself chooses His leader.
- WA Youth camp, pray for our fundraising program.
- Pray for the organisation and rollout of JAM nights, for the participation of other parties (other churches, leaders, youths, adults, church, and ultimately in the end, the community)
- Ingite youth band, pray that God blesses the band so that they may bring glory to Him.
Short-Term Points
- For year 12 youths, (Steven, Yen, Tin, Holy), for intellect, strength and a satisfactory course preference.
- Youth Day, program structure, participants, worship, band.
MELBOURNE:
Leadership
- That more would be called and inspired to step up
- Our leadership team (jon, linda, anh, tin, matt) esp colin - to have clear vision from God of what He wants our youth to become
- Humility for leaders to always bring the glory back to God
- For God to make clear in His own time His desires and plans for each of the leaders and their specific roles
Growth
- Kids arent ashamed to bring their friends
- That newbies would be open to Jesus from the moment they walk through the doors
- For our group to grow in numbers and in strength of spirit
- Steady number of 50 by then of this year
- For attendance at Velocity services
Our Group
- That youth would learn to seek God daily and rely upon Him for strength
- For God to convict us in areas which need changing
- For dedication and committment to doing God's work in Melbourne Church
- For the worship team/band to be well connected to each other and God to effectively lead our brothers and sisters into the presence of God
- The motivation to really put effort into fundraising for Perth trip
PERTH
Breakfast Ministry: Mark
- Breakfast Ministry will soon have a Pergola before winter
- Breakfast Ministry can have more members to join the team
- Breakfast Ministry have more ideas with menu choices
- Breakfast Ministry will have more fund to buy more equipments:
- coffee machine
- toasters
- pans & pots
- More storage compartment in the storeroom
- More people coming to breakfast
- Members to have strength and passion in the ministry
- Members willing to learn new things and not feel restricted
Multimedia Ministry: Michael Nguyen & Ruth Huynh
- Fresh inspiration
- Spirit of excellence
- A filming team
- A photography team
- Design team
- More members involving the ministry
- More funds for this ministry so the ministry can invest in equipments:
- a standard camera body
- a video camera
- backup hard-drives
- legal softwares
- legal resources
- Members can attend a course to learn how to project presentations instead of using PowerPoint.
- Members have the strength to accomplish tasks within short period
- Members have lots of fresh and new ideas for the ministry & youth
- The ministry will start a website and will link with all other VEC youth across Australia.
Dance Ministry: Donna & Tony
- Christians and non-christians will develop an interest for dance regardless of experience and/or skills and come join us on Sundays
- Members of the dance ministry will continue to have a passion for it
- Members of the dance ministry will feel compelled to invite their friends to come join us
- Visitors to previous dance sessions will feel compelled to come again and in the future on a regular basis
- Members of the dance ministry will want to be more involved in performances for events such as new year festival, moon festival, Christmas, Easter, mothers day etc as well as reson8’s youth nights.
- Dance ministry will act as a window of opportunity for us to get our friends to experience church and GOD
- The ministry will grow in number with the common dance interest but stay focused on the fact that we are trying to form friendships in order to bring our friends to CHRIST
- We humble ourselves when we perform and remember that we are glorifying him and not ourselves
- We can encourage others to participate and contribute to dance ministry
- I will be organised and responsible as a member as well as a dance coordinator and fulfil the tasks given to dance ministry
Sunrise: 8.30 – 9:15 am (Sunday morning prayer service) - Peter Nguyen
- Growth in numbers attending sunrise
- Deeper and more powerful prayers
- Gods revelation and manifestation through prayers
Music Ministry: Peter Nguyen + Minh Nguyen
- Unity among band members
- Humility among band members
- New musicians to continue to discover their gifts
- Old Musicians to stay passionate
- Existing instruments to continue working
- Spirit of Excellence
- Finance to purchase new equipment needed
Worship Ministry: Ben Trinh
- Pray for worship co-ordinator to find balance with time and commitment between church, university and family
- Able to complete all the plans and vision for 2006
- Pray for all the worship leaders to have a fresh anointing in leading and their relationship with God
- Pray for the back up vocals: continue to develop their talents and gifts, confidence and anointing in their calling
- Spirit of Excellence
Vietnamese School Outreach Ministry: Ian Do
- Pray for continue positive response/interest for children/youth ministry after Info Day
- Pray for Saturday outreach program at Vietnamese School
- Bible stories
- Games/mingle
- Mini outreaches
- Pray for outreach programs such as
- Mothers day
- Moon festival
- Fathers day
- Lunar New year
- Free tuition/homework centre (coming soon)
- Spirit of serving and blessing the community disregard of whether it results in the conversion experience
- More youth to participate in outreach activities
Children Ministry: Mai Pham & Mai Nhu
- For growth in number and in spirit
- For the kids to be more friendlier to newcomers
- For the leaders and bible teachers to set good examples for the kids
- For the kids to really take lessons out of Sunday worship times
- For the kids and leaders to really worship God, in their daily lives, not just in song
- More preparation by the leaders
- For the upcoming winter camp: preparation, safety
Reson8:
- Youth Pastor and his family : Pastor Kien Nhu
- Youth Leaders : Binh, Ngan, Thao, Hien, Vi, Cuong, Steve, Tran
- Co-ordinators
- Breaking 100+ by the end of 2006
- Unity among members
- Fellowship among members
- Spiritual Maturity and commitment among members
- Increase in members actively serving in church
- A spirit of urgency for reaching the lost
- Passionate worship and honoring God with our lives
- Upcoming events
- Perth Youth Conference: organising committee, speakers ….
- Members to find partners that are christian
WAKE
- For God to continue to bless Wake with a spirit of unity & help build each other up
- Spririt of cooperation & sharing
- Committee (National Youth Board)
Feel free to put up any other points not listed above. Also, share with everyone the blessings God provides after this event so we can all be encouraged & strengthened in Him!
Our God is an awesome God!