We thank you, God, for Assembly!
Thank you for the opportunity to gather in person despite many barriers to cross.
Thank you for the chance to invite participants from around the world to join through their screens at home.
Thank you for the hospitality of our Indonesian hosts and for the lessons of interfaith harmony they modelled.
Thank you for all the staff and volunteers whose generous and cheerful service enabled the event to happen.
Lord God, nurture the relationships that have been planted through this event. Grow fellowship between our churches to strengthen us as ministers of reconciliation and beacons of shalom.
Photo: Loyce Twongirwe

We pray for the churches and servants of God to be protected from persecution in India.
Photo: Sunderland Mennonite Church Dhamtari

Associacão dos Irmãos Menonitas de Portugal está em busca de um novo lugar. Ore para que Deus os guie e ajude-os com o conhecimento para lidar com todo esse processo e os fundos para a compra de outro edifício.

Duas de suas igrejas funcionavam em edifícios diferentes, uma costumava ser uma igreja com base africana, e a outra portuguesa, ambas estão se unindo para se tornar uma. Ore para que esse processo seja suave e saudável e que se veja frutos espirituais dele, especialmente a unidade e o amor. Durante o mês de agosto, eles terão atividades de divulgação em todos os sábados no novo local de Massamá.

Orar para que Deus inicie relações significativas entre a igreja e o bairro e que Cristo seja conhecido e aceito por muitos durante o tempo. No dia 11 de setembro, eles terão uma grande celebração para começar a igreja que segue o ano letivo; dois adolescentes serão batizados e há mais pessoas interessadas. Ore por proteção espiritual e que este dia será um dia para testemunhar Jesus a muitos descrentes que pretendemos convidar.

Que Deus traga alguns deles e impacte suas vidas. Há novos e jovens líderes em nossa equipe de líderes da igreja, ore para que Deus traga maturidade, fé, encorajamento, sabedoria e, especialmente, espírito de equipe e unidade, além de oportunidades de treinamento.

—Atualização de Oração do ICOMB, Agosto

We pray that Christians would seek the unity of the Spirit, showing grace and forbearance in a politically divided culture. 

Photo: Tiz Brotosudarmo 

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

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 

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 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