We give God the praise for the volunteers who have stepped forward to answer the call to serve prisoners. May the Lord direct them in their journey with PFC, providing personal preparation and creating regional opportunities for them to serve.
We thank the Lord for all of those Christian camps across Canada who partner with PFC to bring the gift of connection to the children of the incarcerated. We pray that these camps continue to flourish and grow into healthy healing communities for children everywhere.
We lift up our national staff and pray for the gift of rest for each one. May this summer bring times of restoration; a time of reconnection with family and friends, and a time of reflection on what the Lord is doing in their (our) lives.
We pray for the volunteers participating in our Mental Health First Aid certification course and ask the Lord to prepare each heart to encounter His love in a whole new way in learning healthy ways to care for themselves and others.
We continue to pray for our Mental Health First Aid course participants and ask the Lord to pour out His Spirit over Shirley Buchanan as she leads our volunteers through the difficulties of identifying and responding to mental health crises.
We pray that the Lord would continue to provide for all of our financial needs at PFC through both grants and unconventional funding sources, but also through the stable and consistent monthly giving of national donors. May the Lord highlight the crucial work of PFC to new supporters across Canada.
Just as we all are being built up together into a holy temple unto the Lord, it is our earnest desire to be a house filled with prayer. May the mark of Prison Fellowship Canada to the world around us be: "a people who know their God."
We lift up our staff and volunteers and those who support PFC, and we pray that any obstructions to hearing from the Lord with clarity would be removed. We pray for hearts that seek and find Him in all we do.
We pray that the Lord would pour out His Spirit over prisons across Canada, and everyone from the prisoner to the superintendents would receive dreams from God. Along with them, we also pray for accurate interpretations from Spirit-filled believers. Lead your people as you have in the past, oh Lord.
We pray that at every point of need, God would enact a pre-prepared plan to bring about His holy will for every situation in our lives and ministry. May no weapon formed by the enemy prosper against us, and the Name of the Lord be held in highest esteem among us.
We beseech our Lord and God and ask for favour with the authorities that He has put in place. May He make hearts so favourably disposed to the reconciliatory work of PFC that leaders seek us out from prisons all across Canada to work together as partners towards the common goal of true corrections.
We pray for a speedy return for PFC trained volunteers to in-prison ministry opportunities. May the Lord match the past months of preparation that we've undergone now with opportunity as the doors open wide to us. We pray that we will reach more prisons than ever before with in-prison curriculum.