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.
Thursday 29 August 2024
Father God, We praise and thank you for our adoption into your family through Jesus’ atoning death and resurrection. Thank you that we have the amazing privilege of being involved in your mission of building your kingdom. Please enable us to keep this gospel mission as our utmost priority. Amen.
Friday 30 August 2024
Dear Lord, Please be with Craig Tucker as he speaks at the WA Challenge Conference this weekend. Please help him to be clear in his delivery and in his words. We pray that many might be convicted from Craig’s talks to seriously consider an MTS Apprenticeship. Thank-you for all of the people who have organised the conference. We want you to be glorified through this. Amen.
Saturday 31 August 2024
Dear Lord, Please move everyone at the MTS Mission Minded Conference (ACT network) this weekend to their next step in serving Jesus. Please remove the obstacles that are stopping some from starting an Apprenticeship in your good time. We thank you for the ongoing ministry and preaching of Phillip Jensen (main speaker). Amen.
Sunday 1 September 2024
Dear Lord, Please move everyone at the MTS Mission Minded Conference (ACT and surrounds) happening this weekend to their next step in serving Jesus. Please remove the obstacles that are stopping some from starting an apprenticeship in your good time. We thank you for the ongoing ministry and preaching of Phillip Jensen (main speaker). Amen.
Monday 2 September 2024
Dear God, As the season turns to Spring, may you uplift MTS Apprentices who live under the winter of depression and anxiety. We thank you for the faith you have placed in their hearts and pray for their endurance and eternal hope in Jesus. Amen.
Tuesday 3 September 2024
Dear Lord, Thank you for all the men and women who give their time, resources, influence and financial support to the MTS movement. Amen.
Wednesday 4 September 2024
Dear Father in Heaven, We thank you that the MTS Annual Dinner went well last month. Thank you that over 280 people attended and for the connections that were both created and restored. Thank you for the generous donors of MTS and please bless each and every person who attended. Help keep them strong in the faith. We praise your wonderful name. Amen.
Thursday 5 September 2024
Gracious and loving Heavenly Father, please enable male MTS Trainers to be father-like in their training and relationship with their apprentices. Thank you for those who are training like Paul and Timothy. Amen.
Friday 6 September 2024
Dear Father, we thank you for Ben Pfahlert (MTS National Director) and his tireless zeal in serving you. Please strengthen his faith, grow his godliness, deepen his love and enrich his relationships. Amen.
Saturday 7 September 2024
Dear Lord, please move everyone at the SPUR Queensland Conference this weekend to take their next step in serving Jesus. Please remove the obstacles that are stopping some from starting an apprenticeship in your good time. We thank you for the ongoing ministry and preaching of Craig Tucker and Derek Hanna (main speakers). Amen.
Sunday 8 September 2024
Gracious God, Please win the world for Christ by multiplying Gospel Workers through ministry apprenticeships. Amen.
Monday 9 September 2024
Dear Lord, We are thankful for Rohan Blandford serving in the role of MTS Operations & Support Administrator. Thank you for his calming presence and skillful work in many areas. Please help him as he continues to learn in his role. Amen.
Tuesday 10 September 2024
Dear Lord, We thank you for Youthworks College (Sydney, NSW) and all who work and study there. Please use the college for raising up many more faithful servants in youth ministry who will make Jesus known and disciple young people. Amen.
Wednesday 11 September 2024
Dear Lord, We thank you for Cornhill Sydney and its faculty under the leadership of Peter Ryan. Please use this program to grow faithful and engaging communicators of the Bible in churches and community gatherings. Amen.
Thursday 12 September 2024
Dear Father, We thank you for Russ Smidt as he serves as MTS Director of Training. Please watch over him as he travels to several places this month, keep him in good health and warmly connected to his family and church. Amen.
Friday 13 September 2024
Dear Heavenly Father, We pray for the MTS Recruit Katoomba Committee meeting today. Please give them wisdom, faithfulness and energy as they continue planning for the conference on the October long weekend. May they seek to glorify you in all that they do. Amen.
Saturday 14 September 2024
Dear Lord, We thank you for Jodi Brooker serving as Executive Assistant to Ben Pfahlert and Russ Smidt. Please give her great joy in serving you through MTS and her church. Amen.
Sunday 15 September 2024
Dear Father, We praise you for those who have engineered MTS Recruit Victoria (November 1st to 3rd). Please work mightily by your Holy Spirit to bring many, many godly men and women who might be future ministry apprentices. Give wisdom to Tim Grant as he shares the scriptures and please give wisdom to the organising committee as they run this conference residentially. Father, please bring lots of gospel workers to help to run Mentoring Discussions and Peer Groups. Amen.
Monday 16 September 2024
Dear Lord, We thank you for Becky Cockroft serving as MTS Ministry Administrator. Please give her great joy in serving you through MTS and her church. Amen.
Tuesday 17 September 2024
Dear Lord, We thank you for Lisa Lee who is in the role of Donor Relationship Manager. Thank you for the gifts you’ve given her and help her to connect well with everyone she communicates with. Amen.
Wednesday 18 September 2024
Dear Lord, We thank you for Carmel Vincent and her diligent work as the MTS Training & Events Coordinator. Please sustain her in coordinating upcoming MTS Recruit conferences and give her great joy in seeing many gathered to be challenged with Jesus’ mission. Amen.
Thursday 19 September 2024
Dear God, We thank you for the impact of generous givers to the spread of the gospel. Please continue to provide MTS with warmhearted donors to fuel the movement. Amen.
Friday 20 September 2024
Dear God, Be bringing many people to MTS Recruit across the globe. Be filling MTS Recruit gatherings with people ready to receive your wisdom for their life. Amen.
Saturday 21 September 2024
Dear Heavenly Father, Please bless Clare Merkel as she heads into her second year of work at MTS as the Ministry Training for Women MTS Partnership Developer. Please work in the hearts and the minds of pastors and future apprentices so that an army of female ministry apprentices might be raised up for Jesus’ glory. Father please save many through the Gospel workers who will be raised up. Amen.
Sunday 22 September 2024
Dear Heavenly Father, Thank you for the recruiting conferences that took place during August and September: TAS Challenge, WA Challenge, ACT Mission Minded, QLD SPUR & SA CV Please work by your Holy Spirit in the lives of all the delegates that attended these conferences. May they be like Jesus (Mark 8:35), may they be people who voluntarily and sacrificially deny themselves (their ambitions, plans, and goals) for the sake of Jesus and His Gospel. Amen.
Monday 23 September 2024
Dear Lord, We thank you for the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students and upcoming National Training Event, who are gathered into partnership and engaging in their regional conferences in Nov/Dec this year. Please guard and grow their unity and vision. Please grant the speakers faithful enthusiasm: Rory Shiner, Rowan Kemp, David Walter, Richard Chin, William Taylor, Mikey Lynch, Dan King, Pete Sorrenson and Tim Thorburn. Amen.
Tuesday 24 September 2024
Dear God, We praise you for those completing their MTS Apprenticeship in 2024. Please give them much joy in reflecting on and celebrating their apprenticeship. Please lead them through smooth transitions into their next season of serving Jesus and enable them to keep passing on the baton of gospel training. Amen.
Wednesday 25 September 2024
Dear Father, We thank you for the early registration of a number of new apprentices who will commence a ministry apprenticeship in 2025. Thank you for the ‘rising tide’ of apprentice recruitment across the country and we pray that hundreds more men and women commit to a ministry apprenticeship in the coming years. Amen.
Thursday 26 September 2024
Father God, We thank you for all of the partnerships MTS has with various organisations. We are grateful that you have aligned our paths. We thank you for their willingness to share the good news of your Son, Jesus Christ. Please be with us and help keep these relationships strong. Amen
Friday 27 September 2024
Dear Lord, We thank you for Murray Wale and his expertise as MTS Registrar (more than 10 years!). Please give him joy in serving Jesus and great encouragement for his part in mobilising apprenticeships across Australia. Amen.
Saturday 28 September 2024
Heavenly Father, As MTS Recruit Katoomba grows ever closer, go before all those involved and bring to fruition an encouraging and challenging weekend for all attendees. Bring about a safe and smooth event. Amen.
Sunday 29 September 2024
Dear God, Be blessing the strategic direction of MTS. Work through the MTS team to bring about your will. Amen.
Monday 30 September 2024
Dear Father, For the glory of Jesus and the salvation of your people, please mobilise many people who join in the MTS VIC Recruit conference in November to be serving Jesus. Please raise up and provide for those who will be gospel workers in your global harvest field. Amen.
