Revitalizing Churches Alongside Partners in the UK (VIDEO)
The mainstream church is quickly dying in the UK, in large part because it lacks the gospel. MTW missionaries Keith and Rachel Knowlton and more than a dozen other families are spread out across Scotland and England, embedded within the local church, helping to strengthen them. Their strategy is to come alongside national partners who have a vision for church planting work, helping provide structure and support.
The Knowltons have partnered with the Free Church of Scotland and serve at Buccleuch Free Church in one of the most diverse neighborhoods in Edinburgh, right on the edge of the university. One of the ministries they started is an English conversation gathering called Connect. It's an opportunity for English-learners to come once a week and practice their English in a casual environment, to be able to build friendships with one another, to engage in culture exchange, and also for believers to weave gospel threads into every aspect of that ministry. It's not an overt Bible study, though Bible studies have sprung out of it. But it’s been a way to build community in a diverse context. The ministries of each MTW partner church in the UK may look a little different based on the local context.
The hope is that the Church in the UK will grow to have a greater impact in an increasingly secular community, to see a return to the Scotland that was birthplace of Presbyterianism and the battleground for the Reformation, and to see a gospel revival.
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SEE MOREPray our the church revitalization efforts in England and Scotland as MTW missionaries come alongside UK national pastors to strengthen their efforts.
Give thanks to God for a movement of the Spirit spreading across Europe opening doors that have been long-shut.
Pray for the declining Church in Europe. Many see Europe as post-Christian and without hope. But we know that Christ will build His church.
Pray for Immanuel Church in Brentwood, West London, and for the surrounding community, that God would strengthen believers and draw people to Himself.
Pray for the people of Mati, Greece, who are responding with spiritual openness following disaster response efforts of the Greek Evangelical Church and MTW.
Pray for Europeans who have heard the gospel but are hesitant to fully commit to Christ. Pray that God would draw them to Himself.
Pray for two women, Monika and Andrea, who have recently come to faith against the odds in a hard-to-reach, largely atheistic European city.
Pray for Monika, that God would continue to heal her, give her a new purpose, and protect her life from physical harm, and for Andrea, that she would grow deep roots of faith and be a witness to those like her—unlikely subjects—of the reality of the grace of God.
Give thanks for the work God is doing in South Asia in the wake of COVID lockdown relief. Ask God to grow the new believers who came to faith in Christ as a result.
Pray for an Italian couple returning to their home country to church plant.
Pray for the national pastors serving in Mexico and Cuba, many of whom are bi-vocational, and the work God is doing among them.
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