DAY OF PRAYER letter
October 2025
Known by Our Love
Pastor Carrie Butler | CTK Network Prayer
Faithful Intercessors,
On Monday, September 22nd, the CTK Staff across all 5 campuses gathered for a potluck, worship, and prayer. Every new “ministry year” that begins in September is an opportunity to once again submit our plans to God and ask for His will to be done. The requests below were shared during that time, before we prayed over them together. We deeply appreciate your additional prayers and attentive hearts for all God is doing at CTK, in Whatcom County, and beyond.
As we enter this season, we are reminded that the foundation of all ministry is love. Loving one another is not just an encouragement, but a command from Jesus himself. It shapes the way we pray, the way we serve, and the way we carry out his mission together. When we love each other with Christ’s love—patient, humble, sacrificial love—we reflect his heart to the world.
Before you begin praying today, I encourage you to pause with this scripture, letting it take root in your heart and mind before you intercede:
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” (John 13:34–35)
As you pray, ask God to deepen our love—for him, for one another in the body of Christ, and for the communities He has placed us in. May our love be the clearest testimony of his presence among us.
If you need further guidance on how to pray for our community and the world, grab one of the guides from 24-7 Prayer to cover a specific topic.
With you in unity,
Carrie
CHRIST THE KING PRAYER GUIDE
- Ministry Request: What your ministry is focusing on this season.
- Team Request: Something specific for your immediate team—the ones pulling on the rope with you.
Blaine
Ministry Request: Pray for the Pastoral Search Team as they lead, interview, and communicate throughout the search process for the new Blaine Campus Pastor. Pray that they are guided with knowledge, understanding, and wisdom in the selection process—and that they rest in the assurance that the Lord has already chosen the right person for this role.
Team Request: Pray for the volunteers who continue to lead in the absence of a campus pastor. Pray that they do not grow weary in doing good.
Ferndale
Ministry Request: This fall we are having a marriage & relationship class praying for healing and restoration for struggling relationships and strengthening healthy ones. We will be praying and fasting for Jesus to move powerfully in our community. Also, we are in prayer for a much needed permanent building.
Team Request: Please pray for strength and courage for our team as our congregation continues to grow. We need wisdom and power from the Holy Spirit to move forward, to make bold and necessary changes, and creativity to develop new opportunities for discipling people.
Downtown
Ministry Request: Pray that the past two years of spiritual growth would take deep root and lead to greater investment. We ask that Downtown would be more than a local church—that it would truly become a spiritual family. Pray that people would invest their time, energy, and resources to see God’s Kingdom grow in and through the Downtown church.
Team Request: That our small team be able to operate at a sustainable pace that allows us to equip and encourage the church to not only participate, but lead, in the necessary ministries of the church.
Sudden Valley
Ministry Request: We are focussing on engagement. Engagement in people to people and Church to people.
Team Request: Our current Sudden Valley General Manager has resigned (again). So we start the process all over again. Praying for a good fit with us and the community for the new GM that the community is searching for.
Bellingham
Adults
Ministry Request: As we focus on helping people get connected to biblical community, we are trying many new and different things hoping to capture the attention and commitment of people of all ages and stages of life who have yet to get connected. We are excited and hopeful, praying that people will connect with others to experience transformation alongside.
Team Request: We are a new team this fall, praying to love and support each other across all our ministries with people in new positions. We are also praying for both the hard and good things happening in our personal lives that are always existing in the background as we minister to the adults of CTK.
Young Adults
Ministry Request: We are introducing young adults to the practice of biblical community. Our hope is that they bring their whole selves, be ready to engage, learn to think biblically about community and have meaningful opportunities to practice what they have learned.
Team Request: Please pray for our young adult mentors who are hosting and leading, that they would use their spiritual gifts, creating safe spaces as they guide and build up young adults. We long for our young adult mentors to truly pastor well in this season.
Students
Ministry Request: We are focusing on what it means to be a community who follows Jesus together. Pray for students to be consistent, that those who feel unseen would be seen, that we’d take ownership of our community together. Pray for high schoolers to get campus clubs launched at their schools and build community with other followers of Jesus and live on mission together.
Team Request: Pray for us to be present to Jesus, to slow down and be obedient to what he’s saying and doing, and where he is leading and for freedom to trust that he is strong in our weaknesses.
Childrens
Ministry Request: We need new volunteers to step into leadership roles in our classrooms in both Adventureland and Base Camp. To be fully staffed in Base Camp, we need 10 volunteers serving 2 Sundays a month to be fully staffed. In Adventureland and Nursery, we need 10 volunteers serving 2 Sundays a month.
Team Request: Pray that our team will be blessed with the fruit of the Spirit as we work with our wonderful volunteers and children. All of our environments will be so much better when they are filled with Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self-Control.
Worship
Ministry Request: Please pray over One Church and the Christmas season. For One Church- please be praying over unity in Christ when it comes to the larger body of believers here in Whatcom County. For Christmas, please pray that the Holy Spirit would stir hearts to deeper understanding of who Jesus is and for those saying YES to his invitation for the first time!
Team Request: Please be praying over our volunteers - that they would feel a sense of community within our church and as Jesus’ ONE CHURCH!
Connection
Ministry Request: Our prayer for this fall is that we will be able to create conditions and opportunities where people are inspired to dip their toe in the water of biblical community. And once they take that step, it is our hope that we will usher them towards an openness to going deeper. Pray for our team and volunteers to be in tune with the work of the Spirit in the lives of those we get to interact with.
Team Request: Please pray for the healthy delivery of Missy's baby girl. For strength and healing for Angel in her battle with cancer. And for our team in general to be able to love and support their families through the challenges they are facing.
Blessing
Ministry Request: We are assessing our current model as our community partners shift their focus on core functions and fundraising due to the reality we are all living in. Collaborations are an extra set of decisions they have less and less time for. Curious if we will see a similar dip in donations to this year's Blessing offering but what we know is that God will provide the dollars to do everything he has in mind so we pray for the trusting discernment to hold it all with open hands.
Team Request: Each member of the Blessing Team is in a season of personal difficulty and struggle right now. All of us have been really intentional about leaning into community in specific ways and making space for Jesus to meet us in the valley. Prayers are much appreciated for perseverance, courage, faith to trust, and God to move where only he can.
Missions
Ministry Request: Pray for Tommy and Claudia Manay as they assume the leadership of our CTK Global department. Pray for new innovation, connection with our partners and wisdom as we pioneer and pilot a whole new approach to global ministry.
Team Request: Pray for Claudia as she continues through a high risk pregnancy. Pray that both mom and baby continue to develop with health and vitality.