Please, can we ask you this week to pray for the EMA? You may well not be coming, but even so, we still covet your prayers. Each day this week we will post a particular topic to pray for. Today we're praying for the EMA added value services.

• We're delighted that this year tenofthose will be presenting our reinvigorated Bookstore. We have over 1,000 selected titles from 45 publishers. No doubt there will be some missing, but we've put together a selection panel to make sure we have books for ministers as preachers, for ministers as congregation leaders and for ministers as disciples of Christ. It's important to be hitting every one of those targets. The Bookstore is also open to the public. Please pray that this will be a really good service to the delegates.
• Through the Bookstore we count it a joy to support an overseas project, this year the Johannesburg Bible College. We plan to send them resources to use in townships and conferences with pastors from poorer backgrounds. Please pray that this initiative will be a success.
• We are including a Christianity Explored consultancy service. Pray for those manning it and that it will be a useful addition to the EMA.
• Our International reception recognises that many delegates come from overseas. Please thank God for them and pray that the three days together will be a significant time.
• We also have a pastoral team available at the end of each session. Please also pray for them; that they will be well used and will give wise and godly advice. 

Thank you for praying. 

Please, can we ask you this week to pray for the EMA? You may well not be coming, but even so, we still covet your prayers. Each day this week we will post a particular topic to pray for. Today we're praying for the EMA speakers. Our conviction is that we believe the Bible is God's written word and, by the work of the Holy Spirit, as it si faithfully preached, God's voice is truly heard.

Here are a list of EMA speakers. Please can we ask that you pick out one or two and pray for them specifically?  Thank you.

Main session speakers

• Mark Dever
• Paul Mallard
• Vaughan Roberts
• Dan Strange
• Rico Tice
• Garry Williams

Seminar stream speakers

• Christopher Ash
• Ed Brooks
• Mark Dever
• Angus MacLeay
• Pete Nicholas
• Adrian Reynolds
• Celia Reynolds
• Ed Shaw
• Charlie Skrine
• Dan Strange
• William Taylor
• Tim Chester
• Jago Wynne

Thank you for praying. 

Please, can we ask you this week to pray for the EMA? You may well not be coming, but even so, we still covet your prayers. Each day this week we will post a particular topic to pray for. Today we're praying for the EMA organisation.

When we were used to running the EMA at St Helen's, everything worked like a well oiled machine. We knew what had to be done where and when. This year, at the Barbican, everything, and we mean everything, is new. Even things that, to outsiders, may look the same, have had to be replanned under the bonnet from scratch. 

• Please thank God for all the work that has been done by our able team, led by Rachel Brabner, so far. We've known God's help meeting deadlines and getting things ready.
• There's still lots to do this week. We've got a secular venue staff to liaise with and witness to. We've got caterers, photographers, sound engineers, video people, stage hands, stewards, greeters, prayer teams, musicians, bookstore staff and many more to organise, brief and oversee. And that's before we even try to keep the speakers in order!
• Please pray that not only would the staff team here handle the new venue well, but that we do so in a godly way. We want to serve Christ by being like him.
• Do please also pray against crises and difficulties. We believe in the significance of getting together 1,100 gospel men and women and that the devil would love to disrupt us.

Thank you for your prayers.

Please, can we ask you this week to pray for the EMA? You may well not be coming, but even so, we still covet your prayers. Each day this week we will post a particular topic to pray for. Today we're praying for the EMA delegates.

We have something like 1,100 people coming to the EMA next week (Monday through Wednesday). We have prayed and planned this conference so it will encourage those in Word ministry, and the test is, of course, whether it does just that. So, please do pray for the Spirit's work:

• pray for safe journeys and the ability for people to arrive freshly enough to benefit from the three days together
• give thanks for those who are encouraged in ministry, that during this EMA they will be able to encourage others and be enabled to walk even more closely with Christ
• remember those who are struggling in ministry for all kinds of different reasons. Pray that this EMA will be just the tonic for them and that God would ordain meetings and encounters which will be just what they need.
• please pray that people will be able to sift well so that they can remember, reflect on and apply that which is useful and discard that which is not. 
• pray for teachable hearts. It is remarkable how battle hardened ministers can be when we get together. We tend to listen critically and we are praying that those who attend will listen with hearts ready to receive what the Lord intends to teach. Join us in that prayer.
• please pray for newcomers. We have about 300 people coming who have not been before. We long that they would feel right at home from the off, benefit from the conference and discover and build relationships that will last. 

Thank you for your prayers.

The work of the Proclamation Trust is based on three foundational convictions: our belief about the Bible, about Bible ministry and about Bible ministers. We have tried to capture this in three short videos, which we will show over the next three days.

The Proclamation Trust Convictions #3 from The Proclamation Trust on Vimeo.

The work of the Proclamation Trust is based on three foundational convictions: our belief about the Bible, about Bible ministry and about Bible ministers. We have tried to capture this in three short videos, which we will show over the next three days.

The Proclamation Trust Convictions #2 from The Proclamation Trust on Vimeo.

The work of the Proclamation Trust is based on three foundational convictions: our belief about the Bible, about Bible ministry and about Bible ministers. We have tried to capture this in three short videos, which we will show over the next three days.

The Proclamation Trust Convictions #1 from The Proclamation Trust on Vimeo.

One of the things we've done for this year's EMA is to make the Bookstore more focused. And that doesn't just mean heavyweight books for ministers. Ministers need to browse books with several aims in mind and we want to incorporate those aims into our book selection. In fact, we are deliberately stocking books for ministers as:

• preachers and teachers – perhaps as you would expect
• leaders of congregations – being able to review books which will both help ministers lead and be suitable to use in congregations. This means it is entirely appropriate, for example, to have a children's book in the EMA Bookstore.
• disciples of Christ – we have tried to select books which will build ministers in their own walk with Christ.

To select books we have used PT staff and a selected BookPanel made up of 7 men and women in ministry. The end result is 800 books and 200 commentaries. We can't stock every book of course. And we have tried to ensure we have a balance of the categories above. There will also be staff from publishers on hand to help out and a Christianity Explored consultancy service helping you think through running evangelistic courses in your church. We think you will like it. 

One of the things I've been longing to do has finally arrived. We've built into this year's EMA a specific overseas mission project. This is a recognition that God has given us so much here in the UK and we need to acknowledge his goodness by being generous to others. Coming together at the EMA is a great opportunity to express that gratitude. This year, we're going to be supporting Johannesburg Bible College. The college works with a great range of poeple in South Africa, equipping them to teach and preach the Bible faithfully. Our support will provide resources for students and pastors – often from the very poorest backgrounds. We're asking people to consider buying an extra book in the Bookstore which we will then post over to our friends in Joburg. Also, Crossway have very kindly let us sell the ESV Global Study Bible (a full study Bible) for £5 if it is intended for missions use. So, visitors to the EMA can buy a copy of this great resource (we have 100) and we will send them to where they will make a great difference. You can also give by text.

There are more details about this in the video below. Please do have a look and, even if you are not coming to this year's EMA (still time!), please do consider supporting this project. We're really pleased that an opportunity to review the EMA and build this into the program has arisen. We hope you will share our passion and concern for the developing world.

Well, here's a thing. A primetime BBC documentary on Tyndale presented by Melvyn Bragg. On TV last night and actually very good. Well worth an hour of your time. Tyndale is, according to Bragg, one of the most significant Englishmen ever to have lived. Agreed. You can watch it on iPlayer for a couple of weeks.