As a community, we can support and celebrate with each other through prayer. Join us in praying for those both spoken and unspoken during Sunday liturgy.

Prayers of Thanksgiving. For …

• New beginnings, new mercies, and new opportunities to experience God’s grace (Gid)
• My friend Sue, whose life and love she shared with friends and family (Anslee)
• An upcoming year full of personal opportunities (Anslee)
• Our neighbor Darryl who was released from the hospital after a month and is in much better health (Karen)
• Having a place and home to stay and live (Skylar)
• God hearing our cries when we call on Him
• Finally finding a job
• Getting a chance to spend time with friends and this community for the past week (Marsha)

… let us bless the Lord.  Thanks be to God.

Prayers of Petition. For …

• Those of us longing for something new and are experiencing something tragic or painful, that we’ll sense the promise of Emmanuel – God with us (Gid)
• My friend Sue who had lung cancer and passed a couple days ago (Anslee)
• A new relationship that’s getting difficult (Skylar)
• Situations that may cause me to lose my home (Becky)
• Baby Rocket who has been vomiting and having diarrhea the last few days and for peace for Teddy and Anna Michelle (Wey)
• Our county and all our leaders that they would have wisdom
• My grandmother who had a hysterectomy to remove cancer but will now need to go through chemotherapy and my mom who is helping her (James)

… let us pray to the Lord.  Lord have mercy.

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