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.

What's your 'one thing' for young people?

We'd love you to join us in praying for young people during this challenging season. Create or find a picture that sums up the word - write the word on a bit of paper or card, draw or paint something, take a photo or find a GIF or meme. Share it on your social media pages using the hashtag #prayonething, and/or email it to media@urbansaints.org.

Here are some examples that others have shared:

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.

Give thanks for the Gospel message.
Give thanks for how God has blessed Crusaders/Urban Saints, especially through dedicated leaders – giving glory to God.
Give thanks for Albert Kestin’s vision and that God is still using Urban Saints after 121 years to reach out to children and young people. This year will be our 115th ‘official’ birthday, and our 121st anniversary of the first Group.
Give thanks for the appointment of our new Chief Mission Officer – Anthony Horton (Ant). He will be joining Urban Saints on Monday 14th June. Please pray for clarity of vision for him and that he will listen well both to God and to those around him.
Pray for wisdom for those who, following Government guidelines, will be making decisions over the next few weeks about when it will be safe for Groups to resume meeting face to face.
As lockdown measures are eased during the next weeks and months, please pray for the children and young people in our Groups across the regions and nations. Pray for them as they adapt to returning to school and make an adjustment to new ways of working. Pray that the regular Covid-19 testing in schools goes well.
Pray for the ongoing impact of the pandemic on children and young people; impact that is already seen and known and impact that has not yet been realised.
Pray for our volunteer Leaders as they continue the discipleship of the children and young people in their Groups. Give thanks for those Leaders who managed to maintain contact throughout lockdown, either face to face when appropriate, or by Zoom, or doorstep drop-offs. Pray for those Leaders who were unable to stay in touch, and that momentum to meet again would quickly and easily resume. Pray for follow up of the children and young people who have not been in touch recently or who have come to feel disillusioned, to avoid them stepping away.
Pray for protection upon all our volunteers and staff. Urban Saints is about people of all ages and all stages of life, so let us pray for the safety of everyone who is a part of the Urban Saints movement.
Ask the Lord to send the coronavirus away swiftly.
Pray for the wider Urban Saints ministry areas: Camps (including Sprees), Westbrook, Additional Needs and Energize.
- Following recent government guidance, we (staff team and volunteer leaders) are cautiously optimistic and preparing to run some face-to-face Camps this summer, whilst also planning online Camps at Easter in Ireland. Sadly it will not be possible to run Spree weekends and we are aware that plans may need to evolve over coming months to ensure we are fully compliant with guidance provided. Please pray for an abundance of wisdom, clear-thinking, strength and that we are guided by God throughout this period.
- Pray for the Westbrook staff as they cautiously and tentatively prepare for a summer holiday programme with young people and leaders in residence.
- Pray for the Additional Needs Ministry as in-building training and events start to be planned alongside online provision. Please pray that in offering both options going forward we will be able to meet the training and events needs of everyone and that through this provision more children and young people with additional needs will be included and truly belong.
- Give thanks for all our existing Energize subscribers and pray that the materials will help them run safe and engaging sessions as they start to meet face-to-face. Pray that those who needed to pause or cancel their subscriptions will be in a position to resume and that we see the number of new subscriptions start to increase.

If, when you are praying, you feel God is speaking to you, please encourage us by letting us know. Email lslade@urbansaints.org

Will you join us at the end of March 2021 and be part of our 24/2 Prayer event?

Find out more

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:

PDF download (July 2020 - January 2021)
PDF download (January 2021 - July 2021)
Via Twitter

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.

Local prayer networks

We now have a prayer network up and running across the UK and Ireland, with Regional Prayer Coordinators (RPCs) in place in ten of our twelve nations/regions. The RPCs collect together prayer news from Urban Saints Groups to pass on to the prayer supporters. If you would like to join one of these local networks, you can sign up and select the region or nation you are most interested in from the list provided.

N.B. We still have vacancies for RPCs in the South East and South London. If you are interested in finding out more about the role click here.

"We are more than conquerors"

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.

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)

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