SILICON VALLEY ALLIANCE CHURCH
Prayer List (10/03/2012)
Scripture Reading: Nehemiah
1:5~11; Matthew 7:7~11
“When we work, we work! When we PRAY, God WORKS “Prayer can change
everything. The impossible doesn't exist. His is the power; ours is the prayer.
Without Him, we cannot. Without us, He will not." Let's get together and pray”
“當我們作工時,我們在作工!但當我們禱告時,上帝便動工!“禱告能夠改變每一件事。『不可能』(在禱告中)並不存在!能力是屬於祂的。禱告是我們的。沒有了祂,我們不能!沒有了我們,祂不願!讓我們一齊來禱告!””
Please
pray for the World and America & California…
- Please
pray for the upcoming Presidential
Election.
- Please
pray for CALIFORNIA! Please pray for our Governor! Pray for the
SPIRITUAL
and the worsen budget crisis!
- Please
continue to pray for our
President as he leads
this country!
- Please
continue praying for the weaken US economy.
- Pray
for divine protection on brothers and sisters’ jobs and businesses.Pray for
those who are looking for jobs.
Pray for Mission
- Rev. & Mrs. Brett, Celine Bower
(Amelie & Aidan). Please continue
praying for them as they start
their mission in Paris.(Sign
up to pray: theb...@svac-cma.org).
- Rev. Tenny
and Stephanie Hong (Gaius
& Crispus)! Please continue praying for their
ministry! (Sign up to
pray: Tenny...@gmail.com)
- Pray
for the MISSION we support: Mission
Works in Syria
- Short Term Mission Team: STMT to the Restaurant Workers
(10/28-10/30,
2012)
Pray
for Our Church
Prayer Focus: (10/03/2012): Prayer Ministry
- Thank God for
making Prayer a possibility for us through His Son, Jesus
Christ!
- May God help us to to have a deeper experience of prayer--Prayers
is RELATIONSHIP, not just INFORMATION exchange!
- It is very easy for us to focus on the “asking (Praying)” and “answering”
when come to prayers…but let’s also remember PRAYERS is a way for us to
bear one another’s burdens as we often go down the path together with
those who are
sick, those who mourn, those who struggle…yes those
whom you do not even know personally…those whom you have faithfully
and fervently prayed for…Once again, Thank you so
very much for being there for these families in needs.
- Continue praying
for the weekly prayer meetings both in the Church and in the home on every
Wednesday nights!
Upcoming Prayer Focuses
for the week of…
(10/10/2012): Annual Mission Conference (10/12, Fri-8 PM; 10/13,
Sat-7 PM)
(10/17/2012): CS Sisters’ Retreat
(10/24/2012): Pastoral Staff
(10/31/2012): Harvest Festival (Fred Au)-Pray @ Home
Praise the Lord… we wrapped up our FINAL Nomination Committee this past
Sunday (9/30)!
Thank you for your prayers! Now,
please pray for the ELECTION
process on November 11, 2012.
Church Wide Prayer
Meeting is this Sun (10/07) @ 1:30 PM
Please join our hearts together to pray… for the Alpha Course (begins on 8/31)
- Praise the Lord, over 40+ people has come to the
Alpha course. Pray that the Spirit will speak to the non-believers
and lead them to Christ. Pray for divine protection on the
decisions of these people.
- Pray for strength and unity among the Alpha team members
- Pray for spiritual protection and victory in this spiritual
warfare as we making headway to bring people to Christ
- Pray that the name of Jesus will be
exalted and known to many people through this ministry.
Events to come…
- Nomination Process (COMPLETED)
- Alpha Course (weekly
on Friday)
- Church Wide Prayer Meeting 10/07/2012
(This Sunday)@1:30 PM
Outreach:
- Line Dance: Please pray for the 2 new ways we try to
close in to this group of people. Please continue praying for our Monthly
Line Dance Fellowship on the 3rd Saturday
as we are trying to reach out to the line dancers. Please pray as we are trying to
gradually incorporate all the Saturday Morning Outreach activities into
this Fellowship. Please continue
praying for our
Computer Class.
- Please pray for our Outreach ESL class. Pray that we will be able to
reach these students with the Gospel..
- Restaurant Fellowship—Pray that God
will continue encourage and motivate these brothers and sisters to serve
in this very challenging ministry! Pray
that our own brothers and sisters would gradually involve in this
ministry!
Church
Ministry Needs:
- Please pray for the Pastoral Search for a Cantonese
Pastor!
- Please pray for Divine
Protection on our Staff and their families!
- Please pray for God’s guidance in the Mandarin Ministry.
- Pray for our Board
members and departmental heads! Please pray that God will use
them mightily to serve His church. Pray for divine protection upon
our board members and pastoral staff’s health, spiritual lives, family and
marriage.
- Please pray for wisdom for the English Ministry Team (EMT) as this
team seeks to serve our English Congregation.
- Please pray that God would raise up more teachers to
teach and more students to attend the
English, Sunday School classes
PRAY
FOR OUR CONGREGATIONAL NEEDS
- Pray for those who are in Theological Training and
those who are seeking God’s guidance in Full time ministry.
- Pray for those who are seeking for jobs.
- Pray for God’s protection on marriages and Families.
- Proud Parents: We thank the Lord, Cathy (Warrick) Leung
(Pastoral Staff) gave birth to a healthy
baby boy on September 19. Baby
Tyler Owen Leung weighed
6 lbs 13 ozs and was 18.25 inches in length at birth. Both mother and baby are doing extremely
well.
- Expecting Parents:
·
Sandra (Alex) Wong (Noah, Dec 2012)
·
Frances (Andy) Au (Noah, Feb 2013)
·
Christine (Daniel) Yip (Lighthouse, Mar 2013)
Church Wide Prayer
Meeting is this Sun (10/07) @ 1:30 PM
PRAY FOR Grace of God Alliance
Church
- The GGAC Board - clear guidance from God, wisdom
and energy.
- Pray that God would motivate more brothers and
sisters to serve.
- Please pray for the Spiritual health of brothers and
sisters!
SPECIAL NEEDS:
Please pray for Healing upon:
There are many among us who are
coping with different kind of pain and sickness, please remember to include
those you know in your prayers.
- Please pray for Ed
Yum’s (Bethel) sister in law, Susanna, the wife of his 3rd
brother. She is going through her 4th
Chemo for her cancer. Please pray
for healing and her salvation.
Susanna wants to thank you all for praying for her.
- Please pray for Lap-Yun (Sandra) Yau’s (Canaan) mother. She is in comfort care. Please pray for her. Praise the Lord, she is a believer and
she is 90 years old. Pray that God
would strengthen her and lessen her pain.
- Please continue praying
for Ivy (Bill)
Wong‘s (Bethel) older sister’s daughter-in-law Debbie,
(i.e. her neice-in-law). Debbie has been
diagnosed with liver cancer, both left & right sides have tumors. And the latest update was that
the cancer has spread to Debbie’s bone. Debbie is only 41 years old and she has 2 girls ages 5 & 7. They live in Utah. On
9/17 she went in for a scan to see how the drug she was taking worked. It
showed that it was worse. She was in the hospital last weekend for
breathing problem, because the cancer has spread to the lung, and was on
oxygen. But praise the Lord, she was baptized on
8/19/12 when she was in 'good' condition. Please continue praying for divine healing.
- Pray also for Mr. & Mrs. Tat畢培基夫婦 (Elijah). Both Mr. & Mrs. Tat are very weak. And they are having difficulty walking
stably. Please pray for them.
- Please continue praying
for Pastor Warrick (Cathy) Leung’s father, Philip (Rebecca) Leung (Elijah). Philip’s condition is stable and he is home now. Please pray that he would continue to gain
strength so further treatment for his cancer could be administrated. Please keep this family in your
prayers.
- Please pray for Christine
(Daniel) Yip’s (Lighthouse) mother.
She is diagnosed to
have stage 4 cancer and she has started chemo treatment. Please pray for God’s healing upon her
and pray that God would sustain the family. Christine’s mother attends the West
Valley Alliance Church.
- Please keep praying for Lisa's (Peter) Ting (Canaan)
aunt's 5th daugther, Angel Lai, 14 yrs old who is a very
good Christian. She
has been fighting her ovarian cancer.
Please pray for this young little girl that
our Lord would heal her and that our Lord would lessen her pain and
discomfort.
- Please pray for Monica
Loo (Bethel), she has
been having this excruciating
pains in her knees and some joints. Pray that God would sustain her
to have strength, emotionally and spiritually to endure during this
difficult time.
- Please pray for divine healing upon the mother of a
family in the English Congregation, Joey
(Andrew) Lai (EC).
Joey's mother has
cancer and it has spread to her liver. Please pray...the family
needs us to stand with them.
- Continue to pray for Alice Ng (Jabbok)’s
sister-in-law, Esther as she continues to recover from her tonsil cancer! Please continue
praying for healing and strength.
- Cecilia Wong’s friend, Lancy – She’s a
Christian and married with 1 teenage kid. Pray for healing upon her
insomnia and her stomach issue.
Church Wide Prayer
Meeting is this Sun (10/07) @ 1:30 PM
Prayer
Requests…Please send to pastor...@svac-cma.org