This Week
Scripture Memory
Pray for the Church
Praise God for the leaders with which He has blessed our church. Ask God to grant wisdom and compassion to our elders as they shepherd our faith family. Pray for God to raise up more elders from among us. Pray for more men and women to step into our deacon serving opportunities to help attend to the needs of our families, members, and guests.
Pray for the City
This week we are praying for Aspire Movement (aspiremovement.org), a Christian mentoring ministry promoting holistic discipleship of urban youth. Aspire focuses on personal transformation in four key areas of growth and development: mental, physical, spiritual, and social. Christian mentors are matched with fourth or fifth grade students from urban schools with whom they will develop a long-term, mutually transforming relationship. We are also praying for Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, Pratt City, and Pastor Q.E. Hammonds.
DAY 1: Pray for the Lord to provide fifty new mentors through church partners for the new school year.
DAY 2: Pray for the Lord to use the recent endeavor of mentoring homeless youth to show and share with them the love of Christ.
DAY 3: Pray for our current mentors to continue being faithful to their students by spending time together, praying faithfully for them, and encouraging them to know and faithfully follow Christ.
DAY 4: Pray for the Lord to open up doors for mentors to build deeper relationships with the guardians of their students so they can together impact the life of their child.
DAY 5: Pray for the Lord to send new donors and ministry partners so they can share the vision of Aspire and continue to grow as a ministry.
DAY 6: Pray for the new staff members, Jessica Leslie and Karena Klisares, as they transition and grow into their new roles.
Pray for the World
One of the largest unreached and unengaged people groups in Turkey are the Zaza people. This week, we are praying for the Zaza people and our field partners working among them. There are close to three million Zaza living in Turkey, with less than 2% evangelical Christians among them. There is no active church planting work and little resources available. Join us as we pray for the Zaza peoples. For more ways to pray, follow @pray4zaza on Twitter.
DAY 1: The Zaza are split into two categories, the Northern Zaza and the Southern Zaza, each with it’s own distinct language. Pray for God to awaken the hearts of Zaza men and women to the truth of the gospel.
DAY 2: The primary religion of the Southern Zaza is Sunni Islam. There are only a handful of known believers among them. Pray for our field partner, Ryan and his team, who are actively engaging Southern Zaza people with the gospel and training the believers to do the same. Pray for God to save those who are hearing.
DAY 3: There are a few Southern Zaza men who have believed and who face regular persecution. Pray for our brothers who are faithfully living out and sharing the gospel. Pray for God to sustain them and provide for their every need. Pray for God to use our brothers to establish His church among the Zaza.
DAY 4: There are 1.5 million Northern Zaza people who are primarily Shia Muslims, but there is a small group of believers among them who need discipleship and maturing. Pray for God to grow the faith of these believers and raise up leaders and elders from among them to disciple others.
DAY 5: The Zaza people live in isolated areas of Eastern Turkey making them not only spiritually but also physically one of the mostunreached people groups in the world. Pray for an awakening to God to happen among the Zaza peoples. Pray for more workers to go and work among the Zaza.
DAY 6: Pray for the Lord to soften Zaza hearts and open their eyes to their need for salvation.
Worship
Songs
Sunday Setlist
Baptisms
Glorious Day
Verse 1
I was buried beneath my shame
Who could carry that kind of weight
It was my tomb 'til I met You
Verse 2
I was breathing but not alive
All my failures I tried to hide
It was my tomb 'til I met You
Chorus
('Cause when) You called my name (and)
I ran out of that grave
Out of the darkness into Your glorious day
You called my name (and) I ran out of that grave
Out of the darkness into Your glorious day
Verse 3
Now Your mercy has saved my soul
Now Your freedom is all that I know
The old made new Jesus when I met You
Bridge
I needed rescue my sin was heavy
But chains break at the weight of Your glory
I needed shelter I was an orphan
Now You call me a citizen of Heaven
When I was broken You were my healing
Now Your love is the air that I'm breathing
I have a future my eyes are open
Saved My Soul
Chorus
You my God have saved my soul
I am Yours forevermore
I won't be moved of this I'm sure
You are my God and You saved my soul
Verse 1
I was lost when you came for me
Held in chains by the enemy
But You broke them in victory
Now I'm free I am free
Verse 2
You’re my joy and You are my hope
I am saved by Your grace alone
I will sing of Your love for me
I am free I am free
Verse 3
Now I stand with the Kings of kings
He has paid for my every sin
And from now through eternity
I am free I am free
Bridge
What once was dead is now alive
You gave to me the breath of life
You brought me up out from the grave
I'm bursting out with songs of praise
Lamb of God
Verse 1
You came from heaven's throne
Acquainted with our sorrow
To trade the debt we owe
Your suff'ring for our freedom
Chorus
The Lamb of God in my place
Your blood poured out my sin erased
It was my death You died I am raised to life
Hallelujah the Lamb of God
Verse 2
My name upon Your heart
My shame upon Your shoulders
The pow'r of sin undone
The cross for my salvation
Bridge
There is no greater love
There is no greater love
The Savior lifted up
There is no greater love
There is a Fountain
Verse 1
There is a fountain filled with blood
Drawn from Immanuel's veins
And sinners plunged beneath that flood
Lose all their guilty stains
Lose all their guilty stains
Lose all their guilty stains
And sinners plunged beneath that flood
Lose all their guilty stains
Verse 2
The dying thief rejoiced to see
That fountain in his day
And there have I though vile as he
Washed all my sins away
Washed all my sins away
Washed all my sins away
And there have I though vile as he
Washed all my sins away
Verse 3
Dear dying Lamb Thy precious blood
Shall never lose its pow'r
Till all the ransomed Church of God
Be saved to sin no more
Be saved to sin no more
Be saved to sin no more
Till all the ransomed Church of God
Be saved to sin no more
Verse 4
E'er since by faith I saw the stream
Thy flowing wounds supply
Redeeming love has been my theme
And shall be till I die
And shall be till I die
And shall be till I die
Redeeming love has been my theme
And shall be till I die
Verse 5
When this poor lisping stamm'ring tongue
Lies silent in the grave
Then in a nobler sweeter song
I'll sing Thy pow'r to save
I'll sing Thy pow'r to save
I'll sing Thy pow'r to save
Then in a nobler sweeter song
I'll sing Thy pow'r to save
Cornerstone
Verse 1
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness
I dare not trust the sweetest frame
But wholly trust in Jesus' Name
Chorus
Christ alone cornerstone
Weak made strong in the Saviour's love
Through the storm He is Lord
Lord of all
Verse 2
When darkness seems to hide His face
I rest on His unchanging grace
In every high and stormy gale
My anchor holds within the veil
My anchor holds within the veil
Verse 3
When He shall come with trumpet sound
Oh may I then in Him be found
Dressed in His righteousness alone
Faultless stand before the throne
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