Prayer Requests from Baltimore

Below is a "prayer-gram" from the Pastor of the Church on Warren Avenue in Baltimore:

Dear Friends:
We want to welcome the George/Greene Baptist Association and their Director of, Rev. Jimmy Holcomb, as a member of Warren Avenue’s Prayer Warriors. This two country association is made up of 33 churches who will be praying for us as we seek to accomplish God’s goals for us. Also we welcome Rev. Bob Mackey, Director of Missions of the Baltimore Association.

Bob’s responsibility as our DOM is awesome and I ask everyone to pray for Bob and especially his wife as they, together, engage in Kingdom work in our association for all of our churches, and for Bob, especially, as he leads our association into the future. Likewise, please pray constantly for Bro. Jimmy Holcomb as he leads the George/Greene Association and its churches as they engage their communities and partner with us here.

Please pray specifically for the following:

(1) We are submitting a late application for a Strengthening Churches Grant to assist our beginning our Fine Arts ministry in the Fall of this year. Please pray (a) for our church family as we go forward with this ministry, (b) for Dawson Hull and those others who are coming alongside to make this ministry possible, (c) that the grant will receive favorable consideration.
(2) For The Vine, our Thursday night casual worship.
(3) For our leadership as we prepare the prospectus for submission to secure a church planter at Warren Avenue.
(4) For Sharon Pendergrass and our partnership with Baptist Family & Children Services-A caseworker is now on site weekly at Warren Avenue as part of our community impact ministries. Pray as this ministry engages community residents of all ages and from across the socio-economic spectrum at their points of need.
(5) For Pastor Lyn as he leaves next week to attend the Global Impact Conference in Houston, TX, and shares the Warren Avenue story.
(6) For our Minister of Worship Dawson Hull as he leads our efforts at The Vine.
(7) For artist and composer Cameron Warne as he continues to serve as a leader of The Vine and as we work to bring him on staff.
(8) For mission teams from Charleston Southern University at Charleston, SC; from the University of Southern Mississippi and from The Bridge at Miami University in Ohio, along with the Youth Mission Team from First Baptist Church; Perryville, Maryland, as they work with us to “Engage” our community during March.
(9) For ‘Saturday at the Movies” at the Recreation Center on Saturday, March 8th and follow-up at the church on Sunday night, March 9th with “Celebrate”. Pray that we will be able to get into the community with information, that the weather will be agreeable and that lives will be touched and impacted with the gospel.
(10)That God will raise up the resources we need thru the Forward Fund and other opportunities so that we will be able to implement our communities and engage them effectively. Pray that God opens hearts, pocket books and other resources to help us-we have a huge challenge but it can be overcome and our goal achieved.
(11)That God will put a hedge of protection about us as a church and as a church family as we seek to achieve for Him.
(12) That He will lead to us May-mester missionaries and other volunteers with a heart for the city to come alongside and allow us to move forward boldly for Him.
(13)For our Forward Focus 2008 strategy (a copy of which will be posted on this blog in the future).
(14)For the churches in our association and within Embrace Baltimore as we move to engage the City.
(15)For administrative and secretarial support for Pastor Lyn and Warren Avenue; which is badly needed.
(16)For each other.

Lyn O'Berry, Pastor

THE CHURCH ON WARREN AVENUE AT FEDERAL HILL

" A Family of Friends"

113 Warren Avenue; Baltimore, Maryland 21230