Praying for the Network gathering in Pittsburgh
From Lent and Beyond

All, I expect to be posting prayers all week for the “Hope and a Future” gathering taking place in Pittsburgh. Today and tomorrow, prior to the conference which begins on Thursday, there is a church planting workshop/consultation taking place. That fact has drawn me back to a prayer from the Lambeth Conference in 1930, something which I originally posted here in Feb. 2005.

Eternal Father, Who wouldest make the Church of Thy dear Son a city great and fair, the joy of the whole earth; we beseech Thee, by the sending of Thy Holy Spirit to direct its counsels in all manner of wisdom, love, and might; remove perplexity, establish concord, kindle flame; and gather a people single and strong of faith, to the praise of Him who with Thee and the same Spirit liveth and reigneth, one God, world without end. Amen

Pray that these meetings in Pittsburgh this week will be to the praise and glory of Christ, and for the building up of His people, for the strengthening of the Church.

Lent and Beyond