Celebrating the Season of Prayer

Suggestions for celebrating the Season of Prayer for individuals and small groups:

• Engage in personal prayer and fasting during the Season of Prayer.
• Pray for the persecuted church (prayer suggestions can be found at opendoors.org.au).
• Run a three-week Bible study on prayer using one of the Bible study outlines provided (Discovery Bible Study or Jacob Traeger’s study).
• Start a small prayer group within your church – some groups meet before worship on a Sunday, and others meet over breakfast or coffee on another morning of the week.
• Organise a prayer walk around your neighbourhood. As you walk, ask, ‘Holy Spirit, what are you up to here? Heavenly Father, how do you want to bless this neighbourhood? How might we be part of that?’
• Pray the Blessing Prayer with others for your town, suburb or region.

Some ideas for congregations and communities:

• Use the sermons on prayer and worship resources provided on the Worship Planning Page in your public worship.
• Pray for God to send out harvest workers.
• Regularly incorporate prayer for church plants and mission situations in the Prayer of the Church.
• Organise a ‘call to prayer’ for your congregation – pick a particular time during or after the Season of Prayer, such as a Saturday morning or Sunday afternoon, and gather with others for several hours of prayer.
• Facilitate a congregational prayer group, for example, before Sunday service or over breakfast.
• Members of the LCANZ run a fortnightly prayer meeting on Zoom every Thursday night to pray for renewal and mission across Australia and New Zealand. Email darren.kupke@lca.org.au for information on when it is running and how to join.
• Organise a call to prayer in a regional way in your locality. Publicise and invite other congregations to take part on a particular day.

Email the Commission on Worship at cow.commissiononworship@lca.org.au for more information.