Spiritual Reflections
It’s good to pray together, share together, encourage one another and learn together.
At various points in the year, the YBA produces resources and reflections to encourage churches to think about Lent, Advent and other key times in our Christian calendar, so do keep an eye on this page.
YBA Prayer Diary 2026
w/c Sunday 11th October
The Well, Sheffield
Please remember folk from The Well in your prayers this coming week.
For thanksgiving:
Regular Alpha courses are very fruitful.
New and curious visitors frequently interested in faith.
Birthing a new ministry to the city of wellbeing courses.
For prayer:
Financially squeezed.
To optimise our opportunities for outreach to young adults and students.
Wisdom for the leadership team during a season of staff/people transition.
To guide your prayers further, you can find out more about the ministry of the church through their website here.
Treeton Baptist Church, Sheffield
Please remember the folk of Treeton Baptist Church in your prayers this coming week.
For thanksgiving:
That several of our members have had successful medical procedures and have returned to good health.
For a recent children’s dedication service, which filled the church with people. We are praying that seeds have been sown.
For prayer:
For our church building, which requires a new roof, that God would bless our fundraising events in order that the work can be done soon.
For health, strength and wisdom for our church leaders.
To guide your prayers further, you can find out more about the ministry of Treeton Baptist Church through their website here.
The “why and how” of our YBA Prayer Diary
Prayer undergirds the work of the YBA. Prayer demonstrates our utter reliance on God and our care for one another. One of the ways we do this as a staff team and wider Baptist family, is by regularly praying for all our churches through the year using the YBA prayer diary. Thank you to all who have been doing this faithfully or maybe even sporadically. For those who may not know, each week, a couple of our churches are featured in the prayer diary and become the focus of prayers from other churches and people across our Association. We may not always know the specific needs of these churches, but we hold them in our hearts in prayer before the Lord, seeking His blessing over them and their ministry.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we were additionally to be able to pray for the specific, expressed needs of our featured churches each week? That is exactly what we want to do – to raise up the specific needs of our churches before God’s throne of grace in obedience to His word: “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.” (Phil 4.6).
Ahead of their scheduled week, we invite our featured churches to send in their prayer requests and thanksgiving points. This is uploaded to this section of our YBA website. Any church who, for any reason, is unable to respond to our invitation will still be prayed for.
So be on the lookout for your church’s invitation to send in your prayer points and also do check out this area of the ‘Prayer & Spiritual Reflection’ section of the website, each week, so you can pray with knowledge for the needs of our churches across Yorkshire. We look forward to celebrating specific answers to prayer as we join together in praying for our churches.
If you have any questions about the administration of the prayer diary, please click here to contact the Admin Team.
Nike Adebajo
YBA Regional Minister