Greetings!
This week, we begin 40 days of fasting and prayer at St. Augustine's. We seek the Lord's guidance in finding a home - a HOME for our congregation to do our Kingdom work in the community and beyond.
Fr. Kevin sent out a letter to the congregation on Sunday, which you will find below.
Read it. Read it again. And then we beseech you to pray daily until October 24th for God to end our homelessness by presenting us a place to call our own.
Last Sunday I called the parish to a forty day period of prayer and fasting starting today, Sunday, Sept 15, and ending on Thursday, October 24. We are a homeless people and we must beseech God to end our homelessness. It won’t do for any of us to sit on the sideline on this.
I thank God for the love and graciousness of CCPC. But this is not our home and we dare not be content to see our participation in God’s family here at St. Augustine’s as a Sunday morning frozen chosen experience.
We need a home that we can turn into our own sacred space to worship God. We need a home so that new ministries can be birthed and new educational and fellowship opportunities can be offered.
In our praying I want us to be focused on God working for and in us, not on human solutions (we don’t have enough in the building fund, our parish is too small to own a building, blah, blah, blah). Nothing is too hard for the Lord, Nothing. But we have to do our part. We have to let him know we really do want him to provide us a home and now.
God is waiting to hear our collective cry. Let us not delay. PRAY BOLDLY and PERSEVERE! Hopefully God will grant our prayer before the 40 days are ended.
How long, O Lord, will you let your people at St. Augustine’s be homeless?
How long, O Lord, before you act on our behalf to rescue us?
Start with the short prayers above or use the longer one below if you don’t know how to pray. Don’t take no for an answer. Pray with a holy fervor and persevere. Fast on Fridays if you are medically able and use that time to beseech the Lord.
Gracious and generous Father,
giver of all good things,
We are a homeless people
And we are tired of wandering.
We desire a home for ourselves.
Give us a holy impatience and desire
to cry out to you in our need.
We thank you for the gracious generosity of our hosts.
Bless, protect, and defend their ministries.
But also make haste
to show us the place where you want us to move
that we can call our own.
Then in your generous love
give us the means to move there.
Once there, let our new home further inspire us
to be the people you call us to be:
changed by you to make a difference for you.
We ask this for your tender mercy’s sake.
May your holy Name be glorified
in answering our prayer. Amen.