Prayer Diary

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    • The Formation Workers officially finish their time with us this week. Please thank God for the faithfulness of our first cohort of Formation Workers: Zion, Eliel, Jed, Mary, Laura, Sandra and Beth. Pray for them as they head into the next chapter of their lives.

    • Please pray for Luke Sherwin and Alesia Yermak as they finish their time with us. We’re so grateful for their faithful service and the difference they’ve made in students' lives. Ask God to guide their next steps, fill them with courage and joy, and continue to use them to bless others in this new season.

    • Pray for the IFES World Assembly, which begins in Dublin one year from now, on 24th June 2027!  Pray for all involved in planning, organising, and attending this significant event. Pray for CUI’s hosting responsibilities, for a cooperative working relationship with IFES, and for God to use the event to inspire mission across Ireland and beyond.

    • Pray for the fruit of the Dublin International Outreach (DIO), which just finished on the 28th. Pray that the gospel seeds planted in the hearts of the international students there would bear fruit and that some of these students would then go on to spread the love of Christ to those in their home countries.

    • Please pray for our outgoing Limerick Staff Worker, Alesia as she finishes her time with CUI. She writes: “I have loved my time with CUI as a student, to Relay Work in Coleraine, and Staff Work in Limerick. It’s been a blessing to spend these years on mission, and I’m so grateful for all I have learned and grown in. Please pray for my next steps beyond CUI, that God would lead me and give clarity for what He has prepared for me next.”

    • Please pray for our outgoing Northern Team Leader, Luke, as he finishes his time with CUI. He writes: “I have loved the last 6 years, and will be eternally grateful for the investment in me and for all that I have grown in and learned during my time in CUI. Please pray for Sophie and me as we both head into new beginnings this September. Pray that God will use me to make Him known, as I hope to head back into the classroom as a Primary School Teacher.”on

    • Please pray for the Belfast & Limerick CUs as they adjust to the change of CUI staff who support them. Pray that they would not be discouraged but encouraged by the number that attend their CU and that God would continue to work through the lives of these students.

    • Pray for the UL CU committee members as they meet (11-12th July) to plan the next academic year of CU. Pray for ideas, wisdom and guidance from God in their planning.

    • Pray for students as they are finishing up for the summer. Some of them are travelling back home across the world. Pray that they encounter Jesus more and more through prayer and His Word, and that God would give them more stories to share about who he is when they come back to college again! 

    • Our Formation Worker, Eliel, would love prayers for Maynooth CU, where she has served this year, that they would grow in love and unity! Also pray for the Formation Workers as they transition from formation to work or studies. Pray that God would encourage and guide them in their next steps.

    • Pray for our Formation Worker Beth! She writes: “Pray for my continued work in the world of pottery and the ability to share the Gospel and Biblical stories through my art creatively. Pray that God will help me in my search for a new job (I’m hoping to stay in the creative field) and that I will have the opportunity to grow and explore new paths to the end goal of owning and running my own pottery studio!  Pray that God would always be at the centre of everything I do, whether that be with family and friends or in my place of work, that I can help illustrate that we are The Potter’s masterpieces!”

    • Our Formation Worker Mary writes: Please pray for wisdom as I seek to live for Jesus in whatever setting the Lord places me next. Pray that I would take all the lessons learned over the past 10 months and live them out joyously. Pray for ATU Galway, ATU Sligo, ATU Castlebar, and the University of Galway and the students I met this year. Pray that they would continue to seek His face through the Word and continue to hunger and thirst for more of Jesus every day. 

    • Nonty, our former Comms ASW, has now moved on to help with the comms of a pro-life charity! Please pray for her as she takes her next steps and that she can grow and thrive in her brand-new role! Thank God for the time she spent in CUI as a Relay Worker (now Formation) and for volunteering as a Comms ASW. 

    • Aisling, our Carlow Associate Staff Worker, will be leaving CUI to follow God’s call to the mission field! She will be heading to Thailand as a missionary, stepping out in faith to bring the love of Christ to a new nation and culture. Please take a moment to lift her in prayer as she prepares for this exciting but significant transition.

    • Our Formation Worker, Jed, would love prayers for the work being done in the CU at TUD Grangegorman, where he has been serving. Pray for other encounters like Lia (pg. 9), and the CU would respond with love and grace. Pray for Jed in the working world, that he may be a light to those in the dark and that he may hold onto God more and more as he finishes Formation.

    • Please pray for the IFES Student Leadership Formation happening (July 31- August 9). Heledd will be speaking on the book of Judges, Olivia is on the planning team, and two of our students from Belfast and Dublin are attending as participants. Pray that we would be a blessing to our European brothers and sisters and that God would shape all of us to be more like Jesus as we spend time together being equipped to be leaders in God’s work in universities across Europe.   

    • Pray for the Young Adults events at New Horizon. Pray that the team from CUI, who are leading them, would connect well with those who come, and ask that the sessions would be helpful to the young adults as they think about what it means to live with Christ as Lord in every part of life.

    • Pray for staff to be refreshed, as many will be on holiday over the summer. Pray that they’ll be renewed as they prepare for students in the next term.n

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