Ayr Free Church of Scotland
Prayer notes Friday July 10
Pray for the Sunday services. L Piedt is to take the morning service in KILWINNING. In AYR the morning service is to be taken by G Palmer and the evening service by L Piedt. There will be a fellowship meeting in the hall following the evening service.
· Please keep praying for Eva (Angela C’s sister) and the family - husband Gary and grown up sons Lewis and Ross. It has been a very difficult week. Eva has been struggling to breath with fluid in her lungs. On Friday morning Angela was called to go and see her sister as things are not good.
· Give thanks for the encouragement of visitors at both services in Ayr last Sunday and at the Ayr prayer meeting this week and last week – all different people. Keep praying for more people at all our meetings.
· This Sunday will be the last services taken by L Piedt and it is good that he is preaching at both ends of our joint congregation. The Piedts are not intending to leave Scotland straightaway. They have a bus tour planned to Inverness and Skye after they leave us. Give thanks for the blessed time we have had while the Peidts have been with us and pray for them as they travel around Scotland and then return home to the USA.
· Give thanks for Chestnut Mountain Presbyterian Church of America which have funded the Piedts time with us in Scotland.
· It was a great to have such a great turnout for the prayer meeting in Ayr yesterday. L Piedt took this meeting and spoke on the importance of knowing God’s Word. This seemed a very appropriate message and we are thankful that so many were present to hear. There was time for prayer at the end of the meeting.
· As the Piedts leave the manse the VanBemmel family are due to arrive. Jason is pastor of Forest Hill Presbyterian Church of America in Harford County, Maryland. He is married to Beth and they have two sons aged 22 and 19 and a daughter aged 16. Pray for them as they settle into the manse.
· Please continue to pray for the Kirk Session – Norman M, Norman S and K Boyd as they work on the Development Plan among other things. Two AGM meetings have now been arranged and the Development Plan will be included in these meetings.
· Free Church Youth Camps Please pray for Renfrew Kids, Junior Adventure and Oswestry Junior, and Oswestry Seniors 2 which head off to camp this week. Please pray that each camper would build many new friendships, and pray that as the gospel is shared, they would know more about Jesus as the week goes on, and grow closer to him.
· Prison Fellowship Scotland Sunday 12th July is the International Day of Hope. In a world facing division and challenge, give thanks for the hope we have in Christ. Pray that this hope would be known across Scotland’s prisons.
Rebecca Tait, OM
· Give thanks for the end of our time in Scheveningen and for how many people came on-board either to visit the book fair or tour the ship. Please pray that they won’t stop investigating the truth of the gospel just because Logos Hope is not in the Netherlands anymore.