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.
Tuesday 25 March 2025
Dear God, Thank you for the recent MTS staff retreat where staff were able to prayerfully consider how to best continue the work of MTS in raising up gospel workers through ministry apprenticeships in order to make your name known throughout the world. Thank you for the blessing of a team that, under you, works well together with a united purpose. Amen.
Wednesday 26 March 2025
Heavenly Father, We give you thanks for Moore Theological College and its role in equipping and training gospel workers all across the world. We pray for Moore College’s Graduation this evening, that you will bless all those graduating with encouragement and vision. Amen.
Thursday 27 March 2025
Lord, We pray for those who are considering ministry but are unsure of their next steps. Give them clarity, Godly counsel, and the courage to step into exploring the path starting with MTS. Amen.
Friday 28 March 2025
Heavenly Father, We pray for the non-Christian families of ministry apprentices. May they see your faithfulness and grace at work in the life of their loved one. Be with apprentices for which doing ministry causes tension in their family. Amen.
Saturday 29 March 2025
Dear Lord, We pray for those former apprentices preparing to move into mission ministry across the world. Be with them as they prepare to leave what they know, and give them courage to take gospel where it is needed. Amen.
Sunday 30 March 2025
Dear God, We thank you for Dave Chiswell and team training apprentices in Geelong, VIC and growing a multiplying culture in local churches. Please grow him in faith, godliness, perseverance and love with a steady commitment to entrusting the gospel to many reliable apprentices who will be qualified to teach others. Amen.
Monday 31 March 2025
Dear God, We thank you for all those that support MTS with their prayers, finances and time. May you continue to inspire our MTS community to do His work in this special way. Amen
Tuesday 1 April 2025
Dear Father, We thank you for Callan Pritchard training an apprentice at St John’s Anglican Church, Parramatta NSW. Please grow him in faith, godliness, perseverance and love with a steady commitment to entrusting the gospel to many reliable apprentices who will be qualified to teach others. Amen.
Wednesday 2 April 2025
Dear God, Help us to have unwavering trust in your timing and to wait patiently for you to work. As it says in Psalm 40:1, ‘I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry.’ Thank you for hearing our cries. Amen.
Thursday 3 April 2025
Heavenly Father, We thank you for Matt Straw training apprentices at Providence Church, WA. Please grow him in faith, godliness, perseverance and love with a steady commitment to entrusting the gospel to many reliable apprentices who will be qualified to teach others. Amen.
Friday 4 April 2025
Dear Lord, We ask that people in churches nationwide will be passionate about reaching the world for Jesus, and that they would consider preaching the gospel of Jesus to the world as their vocation. Amen.
Saturday 5 April 2025
Dear God, We thank you for Peter and Katherine Yock training apprentices at St Mark’s UNE Church, Armidale NSW. Please grow them in faith, godliness, perseverance and love with a steady commitment to entrusting the gospel to many reliable apprentices who will be qualified to teach others. Amen.
Sunday 6 April 2025
Dear Father, Thank you for the Vocational Bible College (VBC) and their training of everyday people to be disciple-makers. Please uphold Andrew and his family in faith, godliness and endurance as he leads the college and steadily shares Jesus from one person to the next. Please raise up more men and women from diverse backgrounds to win the world for Christ. Amen.
Monday 7 April 2025
Lord, Thank you for all those who heard your gospel through their local church today. Please be working in the hearts of those who don’t know you. May many people turn to you through the power of your Gospel working in their lives. Amen.
Tuesday 8 April 2025
Heavenly Father, We thank you for Lachlan Edwards who is training Nathan Hiscock in Geraldton, WA. Please grow him in faith, godliness, perseverance and love with a steady commitment to entrusting the gospel to many reliable trainers and apprentices who will be qualified to teach others. Amen.
Wednesday 9 April 2025
Dear Father, May you bless the upcoming Reach Australia conference in May. Please encourage, challenge and grow the church leaders and teams attending with a zeal for evangelism and discipleship. Amen.
Thursday 10 April 2025
Lord, We thank you for Dave Chiswell continuing to train and having a new apprentice in 2025 in Geelong, VIC. Please grow him in faith, godliness, perseverance and love with a steady commitment to entrusting the gospel to many reliable apprentices who will be qualified to teach others. Amen.
Friday 11 April 2025
Father, We pray for Church Pastors and leaders, that God would continue to sustain them, give them rest and new energy to continue to serve God’s kingdom in light of the difficulties they and their Churches face. Amen.
Saturday 12 April 2025
Dear God, We thank you for Kate Boughton training an apprentice at St Michael’s Collegiate, Hobart TAS. Please grow her in faith, godliness, perseverance and love with a steady commitment to entrusting the gospel to many reliable apprentices who will be qualified to teach others. Amen.
Sunday 13 April 2025
Lord, We thank you for the Senior staff at AFES, thank you for their love for the gospel as they train, equip and mobilise campus groups around Australia to proclaim Jesus and his Lordship. We pray that you sustain them in this mammoth task. Amen.
Monday 14 April 2025
Dear Father, We thank you for the men and women serving in Defence Chaplaincy at home and on deployment. Please uphold their faith, godliness and safety. Please give them many opportunities to speak warmly and winsomely of Jesus in a way that brings comfort and hope to all. Amen.
Tuesday 15 April 2025
Dear God, We pray that Trainers and Apprentices will faithfully proclaim Jesus to everyone they come into contact with at Easter outreach events and services. Amen.
Wednesday 16 April 2025
Heavenly Father, We pray for the upcoming Passing the Baton (PTB) conference in Melbourne (2 May). Please help Wei-Han Kuan proclaim the truths in your word, please be with the workshop leaders as they help pastors and ministry leaders in Victoria. May many people attend and be challenged to think about how they can play their part in building your kingdom through gospel work. Amen.
Thursday 17 April 2025
Dear God, We thank you for Dianna Barnett training apprentices at Grace City Church, Waterloo NSW. Please grow her in faith, godliness, perseverance and love with a steady commitment to entrusting the gospel to many reliable apprentices who will be qualified to teach others. Amen.
Friday 18 April 2025
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for the gift of salvation. Thank you for saving us from an eternity of darkness without you. Thank you that Jesus died on the cross for our sins and gave up his life so that we might live. Amen.
Saturday 19 April 2025
Father God, We thank you for Lachlan Orr training an apprentice at Dural Anglican Church, NSW. Please grow him in faith, godliness, perseverance and love with a steady commitment to entrusting the gospel to many reliable apprentices who will be qualified to teach others. Amen.
Sunday 20 April 2025
Dear Lord, In light of the death, resurrection and ascension of your Son Jesus, we pray that your hand will always be guiding the mobilisation of new apprentices, and that we will see more and more people undertaking ministry apprenticeships with a view to moving into full-time gospel service. Amen.
Monday 21 April 2025
Dear God, We thank you for the new trainers at Crossroads Christian Church training apprentices in Canberra, ACT. Please grow them in faith, godliness, perseverance and love with a steady commitment to entrusting the gospel to many reliable apprentices who will be qualified to teach others. Amen.
Tuesday 22 April 2025
Lord, Help the various denominations to constantly re-evaluate their ordination pipelines. Help them to keep what is useful and help them to jettison what is not. Lord, please grow the number and quality of denominational Pastors in Australia. Amen.
Wednesday 23 April 2025
Heavenly Father, Please be with apprentices who are still working on fundraising for their work. Give them confidence in your provision. May they turn to you in dependence for this and all things. Amen.
Thursday 24 April 2025
Lord God, Please be raising up great evangelists in the church today. Give your people a heart to share your good news and the gifts to explain the gospel clearly. Amen.
Friday 25 April 2025
Dear Father, We thank you for James McCleary and Agnes Anandaraj training apprentices at Toongabbie Baptist Church, NSW. Please grow them in faith, godliness, perseverance and love with a steady commitment to entrusting the gospel to many reliable apprentices who will be qualified to teach others. Amen.
Saturday 26 April 2025
Dear God, We thank you for the new female trainers training apprentices at Hunter Bible Church in Newcastle, NSW. Please grow them in faith, godliness, perseverance and love with a steady commitment to entrusting the gospel to many reliable apprentices who will be qualified to teach others. Amen.
Sunday 27 April 2025
Lord God, We thank you for Reuben Capill training an apprentice at Riverbank Christian Reformed Church, Launceston TAS. Please grow him in faith, godliness, perseverance and love with a steady commitment to entrusting the gospel to many reliable apprentices who will be qualified to teach others. Amen.
Monday 28 April 2025
Father, Please bless the leadership, and Church Planting endeavours, of Scott Sanders (Reach Australia), Andrew Katay (City to City), Al & Kathy Stewart (FIEC) and Adam Ramsay (Acts 29). May they recruit, train and sustain many, many godly church planting singles and couples. Lord, we pray that under you, many thousands of churches across Australia will be planted. Amen.
Tuesday 29 April 2025
Dear Lord, We thank you for Ben Mansfield training an apprentice at Southside Presbyterian Church, QLD. Please grow him in faith, godliness, perseverance and love with a steady commitment to entrusting the gospel to many reliable apprentices who will be qualified to teach others. Amen.
Wednesday 30 April 2025
Dear God, We thank you for our MTS donors who lovingly support the vision. Thank you for their big hearts. Amen.
