Prayers of gratitude and intercession

  • Please pray for willing workers to serve the Lord, and for wisdom to take on the challenges of 2022. 
    —submitted by Susana Garrido, Uruguay

    Photo:Karla Braun

  • Renewing Spirit,
    Help your church to be open, in fidelity to the gospel of Jesus,
    to all possibilities in the coming of the new kinship – the kin-dom of God – on earth.
    Help us to align our ways to sharing, social cohesion,
    and symbiotic co-living between humans and the rest of creation;
    to see creation as a cosmic web of living beings,
    in which all creatures live in mutual interdependence.
    Help your church to abide in a harmonious bond between the Source of being and all things.
    —Nindyo Sasongko, Creation Care Task Force

  • Conflicts in some of our member churches continue to divide and discourage brothers and sisters in Christ. Please pray that the armour of God as in Ephesians 6:14 will be put on and the armour of actions given in Galatians 5:20-21 will be laid down for the church to be an effective witness to Christ in India.
    —submitted by Cynthia Peacock, MWC regional representative, South Asia
    Photo: Tiz Brotosudarmo

  • May we help each other in our task of witnessing to God’s grace by serving others, caring for creation, resisting conformation to the powers of evil, and inviting all people to know Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord. 
    Photo: Teo Kresna 

  • We pray for God’s help to continue as a koinonia that transcends barriers of nationality, race, class, gender, language – and time and space. We pray for connection: that online participants in Assembly would not experience technical problems and that they would encounter the Anabaptist-Mennonite family at the event. We pray for the planting and cultivating of friendships that make space to learn, encourage each other and be mutually transformed. May we help each other in our task of witnessing to God’s grace by serving others, caring for creation, resisting conformation to the powers of evil, and inviting all people to know Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord. 
    Photo: Harry Unger 

  • As we gather in fellowship and hope, we remember our family who live in conflict and crisis: the Kasai and East regions of DR Congo, Myanmar, the Tigray region of Ethiopia, Ukraine, Colombia. Lord, have mercy. 
    Photo: Ebenezer Mondez

  • A message from a leader of an MWC member church in Myanmar:  

    Our country is affected by the global catastrophe: we are suffering from extreme poverty and hunger due to international economic sanctions and internal unrest from war.  
    We plead for special prayer for the 51 families of our missionaries and church planters and the 415 families of our congregation members. They have left their homes and stay in forest. They have been not able to support their livelihood for a long time. Food shortage is the great challenge.   
    Please pray for us. We believe that prayer can make a difference.  
    In this most difficult time of turmoil in Myanmar, God has opened a great door for evangelization. This is the most rewarding time of our mission fields. God is still on the throne. 

    Photo supplied 

  • Pray for those from three Mennonite synods and the local Committee who are preparing for the upcoming 17 GYS and MWC General Assembly events. 

  • Pray for the presidential elections in the Republic of Angola, knowing that our countries need peace and security for the well-being of the population before, during and after elections. Pray for peace and reconciliation among brothers [and sisters] in our church and for the development of our local congregations. Pray for our missionary trips and our households who will remain at home while we go on our mission. 
    —submitted by Daniel Canganguela, Angola
    Photo: Gomes Miranda/Confer‘ncia Intermenonita em Angola 

  • Pray regarding the conflict in Ukraine and the impacts throughout Europe regarding refugees and economic impacts. Pray for a just peace in Ukraine. Pray for courage and perseverance for people in Russia who work for peace. Pray that refugees may find safety and welcome. And pray for the countries that are economically impacted by the war.
    Photo: Liesa Unger 

  • A prayer request for Mennonite Christian Service Fellowship of India. Please pray so that we receive this registration certificate of FCRA renewal and start working among all the seven Indian constituents of MCSFI, its three wings (All India Mennonite Women Conference, All India Mennonite Youth conference and Theologically Trained Anabaptist Women of India) and 4 additional projects.
    —submitted by Benjamin Nand, India
    Photo: MCI Singpur, India 

  • Praise God for in-person gatherings in local congregations and at national conventions in the USA and Canada. Pray that Christians would seek the unity of the Spirit, showing grace and forbearance in a politically divided culture.
    Photo: Perdian Tumanan