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Let's continue with Mark Watson's article, "3 Ways to Pray for Church Plants". Today, I would like to ask you to pray the following:  

"Pray for Growth in Spiritual Health and Numerical Numbers" Prayer8 (P8)

When you’re planting a church, it’s not enough to get visitors. You need people who will faithfully return, again and again, and invest in God’s work. But that’s become harder during COVID-19. In the U.S. alone, 32 percent of practicing Christians stopped going to church (even online services) during the pandemic.

Keith Moore’s growing church plant has struggled since the beginning of COVID-19. While taking precautions, he prays that people will prioritize Christ in their lives.

“We are meeting together as a church, but very few attend,” says Keith Moore, who is planting a church for Latin Americans in North Carolina. And while COVID-19 has lowered attendance, he also points to an issue that predates the pandemic: “The basic problem is not putting Christ first in their lives.”

Please pray for church plants to find safe ways to hold meetings — whether online or in person. Christina asks, “Pray for growth in numbers, but more importantly in spiritual growth and commitment from these church members to make church life a priority.”