Prayer Needs
LEADERSHIP
1. Our Guiding Board, Ministries Council, Elders, Deacons, Ministries and Teams. Our Elders are discerning how to share "40 Days of Prayer & Faith Sharing" with the whole congregation. The Guiding Board is working with the Re-Opening Task Force to keep people safe during this latest COVID surge.
2. Our staff: Jimmy, Mitch, Katie, Randy, and Molly
3. Our music ministries and their leaders: Randy Preston, Rod Walker, and Jimmy Horowitz
4. Our tech team: Gary Collier, Tara Pollock, Katie Maybaum, Randy Preston, Rod Walker, and Dan Knight
5. Our Caring Hearts Prayer Group
6. Our Stephen Ministries (Care Receivers and Caregivers)
7. Our partnership with Iglesia Adventista Shalom & Ministerio Internacional Manantial de Vida congregations (and their pastors Edy Rosa Paez and Maria Rosario)
8. Reverends Andy Mangum (CCSW Regional Minister and President, and Rev. Alfred Walker, the newly called Community Regional Minister (CRM) for Reconciliation and Anti-Racism. We look forward to hosting Rev. Walker this Sunday.
MEMBERS AND FRIENDS
1. For all who are grieving the loss of a loved one
2. For all who are or have been ill with COVID-19, and their families
3. Acree, Mary -- now living at Franklin Park (assisted living) in Teravista
4. Adair, Mildred -- recovering from pneumonia; daughter Tonnia had surgery last week, and is home
5. Jackson, Gwen -- fellow Emerald Cottage resident and friend Rick Hackett passed away
6. Jenkins, Bob -- Bob's sister Janet is receiving treatments for melanoma
7. Jocoy, Judy -- has begun weekly chemo treatments
8. Kessler, Jim -- recuperating/rehabbing at home
9. Maxted, Mitch -- recovering at home from a collapsed lung
10. Maybaum, Paul and Liz -- Paul's sister-in-law Nancy in long-term rehab facility
11. Miller, Chris -- (son of Jean Bell) experiencing some neuropathy from cancer treatments; also Jean has just recovered from food poisoning
12. Osteen, Amy and Steve -- brother-in-law Mike Murphy has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer
13. Pollock, Paula -- recent painful fall (no broken bones)
14. Tucker, Amy -- recovery following hip replacement surgery
15. Walker, Lisa -- working at being put on a kidney list
16. Family of Garvid Wilson
OTHER
1. All events at Disciple Oaks
2. All who don't know Jesus
3. COVID-19 (continuing efforts to reach "herd immunity" in the U.S. and around the world)
4. Those who have lost jobs during the pandemic; businesses that continue to struggle
5. All people who are persecuted for their faith throughout the world
6. Our military personnel and families
7. Development of an immigration policy for the U.S. that is fair, just, and responsible; for Haitians who are suffering from the recent earthquake; for Afghanis seeking safety and stability in the midst of regime change
8. Developing policies and education programs to battle systemic racism in all of its forms
9. For all efforts toward affordable health care for all Americans
10. For all efforts to make voting safe, simple, and easily accessible for all in our country; and to oppose recent voter suppression legislation
11. U.S. lawmakers and community leaders to work together to solve the problem of mass shootings in schools, places of work, etc.
12. All teachers, administrators, students, and parents of our two neighborhood schools: Union Hill Elementary School and Hopewell Middle School
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