Messages

Dear friends,

Thank you so much for your prayers for Saffron Walden Bible Focus.  They are not just appreciated, they are essential.   “The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective” (James 5:16).  So, with under three weeks to go before the 2024 event here are some important matters for your intercessions.

Bookings

Although bookings began to come in rather slowly at first they have picked up well now.  However, there are still places, so if you haven’t yet booked or know friends who haven’t, you have until 9^th September to do so.

Autumn event

Please pray for

• Martin Salter, the speaker, for the power and liberty of the Holy Spirit as he takes the theme of ‘Freed to Serve’ from Galatians.
• safety and good health for Martin and all who attend.
• for a real sense of the Lord’s presence and power.
• that still more will be blessed by booking in soon.

SWBF Team

• We continue to thank the Lord for the faithful commitment of many who have been involved with Bible Focus since its inception in 2016, and those who have ‘come on board’ more recently.
• We praise the Lord that two people are considering joining the Team. Please pray for them as they seek the Lord’s guidance.
• We have been able to provide a children’s programme in past years at the autumn event. However, this year there is a shortage of leaders – and children! – so please pray for the Lord’s solution (meanwhile some suitable films will be shown).

Dear friends,

We hope you found our March prayer diary useful in praying for Saffron Walden Bible Focus, and that this one will be equally useful.

SWBF Team

• We continue to thank the Lord for the faithful commitment of many who have been involved with Bible Focus since its inception in 2016, and those who have ‘come on board’ more recently.
• At the July Team meeting we shall have a visit from someone who will give us some guidance on ‘succession planning’. Please pray about our need to relieve the pressure on several of our team members.
• We are unable to provide the usual children’s programme at the autumn event this year, due to lack of leaders. Please pray for the Lord’s solution to this problem.

Autumn event

• Give thanks that this year’s event is still possible
• Pray for the speaker, Martin Salter from Bedford, and that his theme of ‘Freed to Serve’ will have a radical effect upon the hearers and, through them, on the churches from which they come.
• Pray for safety and good health for Martin, and for all who attend.
• Pray for a large attendance, and for all who will take part in any way.
• Please pray, too, that the publicity we issue to the churches will be distributed and the event enthusiastically publicized.

Vision 

Pray that SWBF continues to provide encouragement through Bible exposition and fellowship for believers in the town and further afield