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.
Friday 28 February 2025
Lord, We pray for every Apprentice who is starting (or already has started) their theological studies. We pray they will honour you in their studies. We ask that they would not be afraid to ask hard questions and help them to digest the answers well. Thank you that they are devoting their time to learning about you. Amen.
Saturday 1 March 2025
Heavenly Father, We thank you for Clare Merkel, our Ministry Training for Women Partnership Developer. Would you please help her partner well with churches to see more female gospel workers raised up in Australia to win the world for Christ. Amen.
Sunday 2 March 2025
Lord God, We give you thanks for Salt Church in Wollongong and their continued commitment to raise up gospel workers through ministry apprenticeships. Please give trainer Geoff Ackman wisdom and energy to train their three apprentices this year. Amen.
Monday 3 March 2025
Dear God, We thank you for the work of the team at Ministry Apprentice Training (MAT) Zimbabwe. We ask that you grow the support for this global MTS ministry here in Australia, and be preparing more and more to join the movement in Zimbabwe. Amen.
Tuesday 4 March 2025
Father, We pray for peace throughout the world. May you make your goodness evident, and comfort those who are displaced and grieving. Amen.
Wednesday 5 March 2025
Dear God, We thank you for Glenn Dillon training apprentices in Woodcroft, 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.
Thursday 6 March 2025
Heavenly Father, We give you thanks for Christ College and its role in equipping and training gospel workers all across the world. We pray for the Christ College Graduation on March 12th, that you will bless all those graduating with encouragement and vision. Amen.
Friday 7 March 2025
Heavenly Father, We thank you for the Christian families of ministry apprentices. Please encourage and sustain them as they support their loved ones in gospel work. May they see your faithfulness and be strengthened in their own faith. Amen.
Saturday 8 March 2025
Dear God, We thank you for Suellen Milham training another apprentice in Orange, NSW and growing a multiplying culture in her church. 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 9 March 2025
Dear Father, Thank you for the financial supporters of MTS, we ask that you raise up more people to prayerfully and financially support the work of MTS. Amen.
Monday 10 March 2025
Dear Lord, Please grow the MTS Staff Team in unity, diligence and determination as they meet for the annual planning retreat (10-12 March). Thank you for Ben Pfahlert’s loving leadership of the team and for the gift that each staff member is to the team and vision of the MTS network. Amen.
Tuesday 11 March 2025
Dear Lord, Please be with the Committees planning MTS recruiting conferences. Give them faithfulness and wisdom as they seek to create conferences that challenge and raise up the next generation of Gospel Workers. Amen.
Wednesday 12 March 2025
Dear God, We thank you for Jeff Keighley training an apprentice in Brisbane, 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.
Thursday 13 March 2025
Dear God, We thank you for the work of MTS Slovenia under the leadership of Bostjan Cifer. Grow support for this global MTS ministry here in Australia, and be preparing more and more to join the movement in Slovenia. Amen.
Friday 14 March 2025
Dear Father, Thank you for the partnerships that MTS has with many wonderful service providers including accounting, IT support, legal, database systems and others. Thank you for the way the expertise of these service providers enables the MTS team to focus on the mission of raising up, training and resourcing MTS trainers. Amen.
Saturday 15 March 2025
Lord, Thank you for The Men’s Conference happening today in Brisbane. Thank you for the service of Mikey Tai, Ben Mansfield and the team. Please be with Russ Smidt as he talks to delegates about MTS apprenticeships and training. Please bless this gathering of men and lead them closer to you, Lord. Amen.
Sunday 16 March 2025
Father, Be with the MTS apprentices who completed their apprenticeship recently. We pray that you help them settle into their next phase of your plan for them. Please give them perseverance, joy and wisdom wherever you have placed them. Amen.
Monday 17 March 2025
Dear God, We thank you for our new donors who have come on board in recent times to support the MTS movement. May you continue to grow the donor community as we grow and evolve the MTS movement. Amen.
Tuesday 18 March 2025
Lord, Please be helping apprentices and trainers through the world to rely heavily on you. Be prompting your workers to trust in your plans for them. Help them to multiply themselves for many years to come. Amen.
Wednesday 19 March 2025
Father, Thank you for those financially supporting individual apprentices in their ministry this year. We pray you help those apprentices build strong community with those who are sending them into ministry. Amen.
Thursday 20 March 2025
Heavenly Father, We pray for the Emerging Leaders day run by Vision 100 in Tasmania that is happening in Ross today. We pray for the promotion of a culture of passing on the baton of ministry through ministry apprenticeships. May pastors, trainers, ministry staff, apprentices be encouraged and spurred on for that task today. Amen
Friday 21 March 2025
Dear God, We thank you for Karen Lawson-Smith training an apprentice in Camden, NSW and growing a multiplying culture in local churches. 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.
Saturday 22 March 2025
Dear Lord, We pray that your hand will always be guiding the recruitment 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.
Sunday 23 March 2025
Dear God, We thank you for Nicholas Lockwood, training an apprentice in Perth, WA 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 24 March 2025
Dear God, We thank you for the generosity of our MTS donors. Their faithful support is making a real difference in raising up Gospel Workers. Please bless and encourage them as they partner in your mission. Amen.
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
