Urban Saints | Who is discipling our young people?

Will you pray with us?

Paul wrote in Philippians, 'In everything by Prayer'. There are impossible challenges in our country and we need God to act more than anything. Every day our teams pray together asking God to bless our Groups, volunteers and young people. We believe we can reach a generation of young people, thanks to your prayers, so please join in.

Praying for a virtual summer

Socially distanced adventures are not really an option on most of our Camps - but the summer is not cancelled!

Although we have had to cancel our usual programme of Spree Weekends and Camps this summer, we have a host of awesome Virtual Camps running over the next couple months. And just as we always do, we invite you to join us in covering these events in prayer.

Download our Virtual Camps Prayer Letter

Praying every day

Pray For Change is the Urban Saints prayer diary, with daily prayer topics from across the network. This is available as a handy A5 booklet, delivered straight to your door twice a year, ready for you to play your part.

Pray For Change is also available as:

Monthly prayer updates

The Urban Saints Support Centre sends out a monthly prayer email featuring the latest prayer needs, praise items and requests. By signing up to this, you'll become one of our most vital team members - responding to the immediate needs of the team and the wider organisation. We also send out urgent prayer requests when needed this way too. Sign up and select 'Pray With US' from the list provided.

"We are more than conquerors" - an urgent call to unite in prayer against the coronavirus...

We are asking Urban Saints, Crusaders, our friends and supporters to join together to pray for our country and especially for young people everywhere.

It is with great regret that we announced in March the suspension of all our Groups and since then the cancellation of Camps and Overseas Adventures. This is the first time that we have had to suspend our face to face meetings, therefore this is a time that requires a profound prayer response from Christians everywhere.

We are hearing daily of the huge health and social consequences the coronavirus outbreak is having across the UK, Ireland, and around the world. In fact, many of us will be confronting the challenge of no longer being able meet and worship together face to face; so, in response let us take a united stand in prayer together.

We are not victims of isolation but prayer warriors for the Kingdom.

Being an 'Urban Saint' means prayer is essential and we seek to pray together regularly asking God to bless our Groups, volunteers and young people as well as the ministries of other youth organisations around the UK. We are passionate about inviting God into everything we do and we don’t want to achieve anything without God getting the glory. We can reach a generation of young people, thanks to your prayers, so please join in.

At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, we set time aside to pray continually for 48 hours - taking it in turns to lift up the needs of the movement to God in act of faith and unity. These '24-2' prayer times are something we try to do at least once a year.

In June, we gathered together online as one movement for an hour of concentrated prayer for the young people of the UK and Ireland - the National Prayer Gathering.

Anyone can join in with this and we encourage you to take part - wherever you are based and however you are connected to Urban Saints.

Thank you so much for supporting us in this way!

More Than Conquerors

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:35-39 New International Version (NIV)

Prayer Requests

We have put together some key requests for prayer and would encourage you to join with us in praying for the young people across the United Kingdom and Ireland and for our ongoing ministry.

Pray for the young people who will be unsettled by these extraordinary circumstances and that we can still find ways to help our volunteers to inspire hope in young people.
Pray for everyone’s health and safety. Urban Saints is about people of all ages and all stages of life, so let’s pray for everyone who is a part of the Urban Saints movement.
Pray for those who are confined to places that for whatever reason are not safe to be (places of violence, neglect, poverty).
Ask the Lord to send the coronavirus away swiftly.
Pray against people’s fears and panic, and that we will be a strong Christian witness because of our confidence in Jesus.
Pray for protection upon all our volunteers and staff as they seek creative ways to continue to provide ministry to a generation of young people, especially at this time.
Pray for wisdom in how to effectively disciple our young people under these exceptional circumstances. Pray as we explore online and other methods of doing so safely.
Don't forget to pray for the longer term growth and development of Urban Saints too. While we know that our world may not be the same again, we do believe that we will overcome the coronavirus outbreak and that we will be able to continue offering local, weekly Groups meeting face-to-face as well as exciting Camps and unforgettable Overseas Adventures. We ask you to pray for Urban Saints to continue to break new ground beyond the coronavirus pandemic and that we can continue to make connections, recruit volunteers and begin the process of starting new ministry opportunities even now.

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