MTS provides prayer points from apprentices, trainers, churches, and ministry partners around Australia, and around the world. Please support us in prayer as we seek to multiply gospel workers through ministry apprentices.
Wednesday 30 October 2024
Dear Lord, Thank you for the MAT Zimbabwe movement. Thank you for Antony Dandato and the team’s immense love for you. Please continue to bless their ministry and provide the resources and people they need to keep moving. Amen.
Thursday 31 October 2024
Dear Lord, Please move everyone at the MTS Recruit Victoria conference on the coming weekend (1-3 Nov) to take their next step in serving Jesus. Please remove the obstacles that are stopping some from starting an Apprenticeship in your good time. Amen.
Friday 1 November 2024
Dear Lord, We pray for the MTS Recruit Conference happening in Victoria this weekend with Tim Grant Speaking. Please stir many delegates to consider training for gospel ministry through apprenticeships in Victoria. Amen.
Saturday 2 November 2024
Dear Father, We thank you for the METRO Committee of the Presbyterian Church of NSW and its commitment to raising up apprentices in Presbyterian churches. We pray for the trainers and apprentices who are undergoing interviews and assessments to be part of MTS in local churches for 2025. Amen.
Sunday 3 November 2024
Lord, We bring before you our brothers and sisters in Tasmania and the growth of the MTS movement there. We pray that many workers will be raised for God’s harvest in Tasmania and beyond. Amen.
Monday 4 November 2024
Dear God, We thank you for the MTS Recruit-Katoomba Committee. Please guide them and grow their enthusiastic teamwork as they review the 2024 conference and plan for the years to come, all for your glory. Amen.
Tuesday 5 November 2024
Dear God, We pray for the upcoming G8 National Conference (13-16 January). We pray that Apprentices and Trainers will be encouraged and challenged to have their characters and ministries formed by God’s Word. Amen.
Wednesday 6 November 2024
Dear God, We pray for the ongoing partnership that MTS has with Theological colleges around Australia. We pray that you would give them great wisdom as they work together to raise up harvest workers. Amen.
Thursday 7 November 2024
Dear God, We pray for the gathering tonight ‘Prime time’ where a vision for encouraging, challenging and equipping those aged 50+ for gospel ministry is happening. We pray for Phillip Jensen who will be speaking and discussions that will happen. Amen.
Friday 8 November 2024
Dear God, We are thankful for the generosity of donors that fuels the MTS movement. Please provide more regular donors to help MTS continue to plan ahead. Amen.
Saturday 9 November 2024
Dear Father, We thank you for the hundreds of gospel workers who served as ‘mentors’ at the MTS recruiting conferences across the country. Please use these many conversations to lead many suitable men and women to consider ministry apprenticeships. Amen.
Sunday 10 November 2024
Dear Father, We thank you for raising up faithful servants in a changing and growing MTS Staff Team during 2024: Juliette Lee, Rohan Blandford, Daniel Douch, Lisa Lee, Steve McKay. Please give them great joy, unity and effectiveness in serving Jesus’ churches. Amen.
Monday 11 November 2024
Dear Father, We thank you for the METRO Committee of the Presbyterian Church of VIC and its commitment to raising up apprentices in Presbyterian churches. We pray for the trainers and apprentices who are undergoing interviews and assessments to be part of MTS in local churches for 2025. Amen.
Tuesday 12 November 2024
Dear Father, We thank you for gathering many from across Australia together today in Sydney for the MTS Ministry Partners Conference, A conference where we gather to pray, inspire and encourage one another to raise up the next generation of gospel workers. Please bring great gospel unity and spur us all on in the task of Matthew 28. Amen.
Wednesday 13 November 2024
Dear Lord, We thank you for 2024-25 Apprentices who are in the process of leaving their current workplaces. Please uplift and strengthen those who are facing opposition and discouragement from those who do not understand or support their decision. Enable them to respond with grace and warmth. Amen.
Thursday 14 November 2024
God Almighty, We pray for wisdom and discernment for 2nd year Apprentices as they decide on their next steps after finishing their apprenticeship in coming weeks. Amen.
Friday 15 November 2024
Dear Lord, We thank you for the Finance Committee that serves the MTS Board. We thank you for their servant hearts, diligent minds and visionary stewardship over the finances of MTS. Amen
Saturday 16 November 2024
Dear Lord, We thank you for those who serve on the leadership of Presbyterian Youth Summer Camp (NSW). Please given them good fellowship and gospel momentum in their Training Day today. Please guide and enable Russ Smidt (MTS Director of Training) as he prepares the talks and studies for the camp in the book of Daniel. Amen.
Sunday 17 November 2024
Dear Father, We thank you for Ying Yee’s ministry at The Chinese Christian Church (Milsons Point, NSW), and the work he does with The Gospel Coalition Australia Asian. Please spur him on as he encourages his peers to take up ministry apprenticeships later in life. Amen.
Monday 18 November 2024
Dear Father, We thank you for saving Dave Pitt and raising him up through an Apprenticeship to now serve as General Manager of City Bible Forum. Please help him to evangelise, disciple and train city workers to make Jesus known. Amen.
Tuesday 19 November 2024
Dear Father, We thank you for saving Dan Wu and raising him up through an Apprenticeship to now serve as a lecturer at Moore Theological College (Sydney). Please help him to teach and disciple theological students as gospel workers while making Jesus known to the wider community he lives within. Amen.
Wednesday 20 November 2024
Dear Lord, We thank you for the CMS team who have developed the Mission Track program for helping trainers and apprentices be formed for global mission. Please raise up more trainers and apprentices who will serve overseas in gospel proclamation. Amen.
Thursday 21 November 2024
Father God, We want to thank you for Reach Australia, and for the work they do in seeing healthy, evangelistic and multiplying churches in Australia. We pray that God will use our endeavours in multiplying gospel workers through ministry apprenticeships to see 300 churches planted by 2030. Amen.
Friday 22 November 2024
Dear Father, We thank you for saving Ben Smith and raising him up through an Apprenticeship to now serve as a Presbyterian pastor and Navy Reserve Chaplain in Coffs Harbour, NSW. Please help him to train his apprentice and equip others in his church for faith, godliness and service of Jesus. Amen.
Saturday 23 November 2024
Dear Saviour, Please rescue many into faith and eternal life as the gospel is proclaimed by Dave Jensen in the Meet Jesus event in Canberra tonight. Please mobilise believers for ongoing warm and urgent engagement with their friends in introducing them to Jesus. Amen.
Sunday 24 November 2024
Dear Father, We thank you for the women (unnamed here, but known to you) who have been raised up through an Apprenticeship to now serve as faithful Christians in countries where gospel workers are unwelcome. Please provide for them and protect them. Please help them to evangelise, disciple and love the diverse communities you have placed them in. Amen.
Monday 25 November 2024
Dear Father, We thank you for saving Pete Hughes and raising him up through an Apprenticeship to now serve in coaching of church planters and consultancy with Reach Australia (based in Sydney, NSW). Please help him to mentor and coach ministry church planters for faithful service and perseverance in reaching out to unbelievers in local communities across Australia. Amen.
Tuesday 26 November 2024
Dear Father, We thank you for saving Simon Holmes and raising him as a Pastor and Trainer at Busselton Baptist Church (Busselton, WA). Please help him to evangelise, disciple, lead and pastorally care for the community you have placed him in. Please give him great joy in training apprentices. Amen.
Wednesday 27 November 2024
Father God, Thank you for the great work of Cornhill Sydney in developing the preaching skills of many of our MTS Apprentices, we pray for the growth of Cornhill in the coming years. Please continue to bless the MTS partnership with Cornhill. Amen.
Thursday 28 November 2024
Dear Lord, Give wisdom to the MTS Board when they meet at Naremburn Cammeray Church tonight. May they provide good governance to the MTS National Director so that the organisation’s vision, mission and mission objectives might be achieved and that this will be done with the utmost integrity. Give enduring energy to Greg Lee as he chairs the gathering. Amen.
Friday 29 November 2024
Heavenly Father, We ask you to bless the MTS Christmas Appeal launching today. May you raise up Gospel Workers through the money donated to MTS. Amen.
Saturday 30 November 2024
Father God, Please continue to bless the work of AFES in proclaiming Jesus Christ at University campuses across Australia. Please give the AFES team great energy and wisdom as they mobilise all the regional gatherings of National Training Event (NTE) this year. Amen.
