Praise and Prayer Requests from Sunday Service of September 21

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Ruth says there ‘s a chance she can have her vision restored so she’s going to have the surgery. Don was blessed to spend time with family yesterday. Shelly praises The Lord for His goodness and the love of the church. She thanks God for Clarke’s continued improvement. Pastor David also rejoices in getting to spend time with grandchildren. Kelly rejoices in God’s saving power. It’s great to have Jerry back with us. Cindy is thankful we have a new visitor from the nursing home. Pam is thankful for unexpected financial blessings. Karen is our visitor and she is glad to get to come. She is thankful that friends or relatives of hers got a bigger home.

Shelly prays for God’s guidance as she takes on the responsibility of teaching the young ones that we are so blessed to now have with us. We all rejoice in the changes that have brought us all to this point. Kelly prays for continued improvement in her physical condition. Brenda asks prayer for a neighbor with multiple health problems. Her name is Nora. Pray for Christopher, a son of a friend of Brenda’s who is having challenges related to autism. Pray for Kimi. Also keep praying for Frances’s daughter Chrystal. Clarke also voiced concern for Kimi. Kelly wants us to pray for Steve. Lisa is not with us today because her son Cory is ill. Kimi asks for strength as she takes care of a home with 5 dogs for sixteen days. John wants prayer for something on his arm. Keep praying for Frances. Pam prays for the father of her friend Michelle who is critically ill. Cathy asks prayer for Bill, who took care of pest control for the church, who has sustained injuries from a fall.

Thank The Lord for His blessings and be a blessing this week!

Praise and Prayer Requests for Homecoming Sunday, September 14

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Shelly thanks God for providing her with new things for her home. Clarke was able to be here and he’s walking better. Kim is thankful that she was able to get on new medication that is helping her. Brenda got to spend time with family. Kelly says she’s doing better. Jana thanks God for his many blessings and her family.

Shelly says that Mr. Ward has multiple health issues and she prays for his faith to be strengthened in the face of his health challenges. Cindy asks prayer for the Terrell family. Kelly wants us to pray for Steve. Brenda wants us to keep praying for the restoration of the marriage of the parents of the children who rode her bus. Jana asks us to pray for the trouble around the world and that our leaders would make wise decisions. Kimi prays for her friend Kathleen. Dede asks prayer for her friend Charles who has cancer. Clarke asks prayer concerning lymphoma tumors that need to be removed. Ruth asks prayer for for a relative of her doctor who fell and broke her arm this week, then fell and broke more bones. Pray for Josephine. Cindy says Jerry from the nursing home is having trouble with his medications. Pray for his emotional well-being as well with so much happening in his life lately.

We’re so thankful to be together on this celebratory occasion! Thank The Lord for all He has done in this church. Pray for each other this week and be an answer to someone’s prayer.

Praise and Prayer Requests from Sunday Service of September 7

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Tim enjoyed getting to spend the day with his grandchild. Shelly praises The Lord that they got moved. She said Clarke did well yesterday without cain or walker. Pastor david is looking forward to our homecoming next week as are we all.

Cathy asks prayer for a friend with cancer. Jana asks prayer for a friend Teri going through dialysis. John asks us to pray for his brother Walter and his family. Shelly says that Doug is not doing well and having trouble with his throat. Pray for Kenny who went to the hospital on Friday with a virus. Lupe asks prayer for her family, especially Nancy who will have an interview tomorrow. Pray for Ruth’s eyes. Dede is not here because of a toothache. Cindy’s family has been ill. Rachel prays for a good week at school. 🙂 Pray for the whitmore’s granddaughter Leslie. Brenda wants us to keep praying for the parents of the children she mentioned last week.

Praise and Prayer Requests from Sunday Service of August 31

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Shelly praises God that Clarke got his retirement and they will soon be in their new house.  She thanks Pastor David, Kenneth and Kimi for helping get beds for her granddaughters.  She says Kelly is doing well but may have gotten all the benefit she can from the therapy.  Shelly is praising God for His blessings.  Ruth heard from her doctor this week that she can no longer see well enough to drive.  She has chosen to praise the Lord that He has kept her from possibly hurting someone in a wreck.  There is a surgery that may help.  She has to decide whither she wants to try it.  Don says his medical condition has stabilized.  Cindy is thankful for family working together in the past week.  Anita thanks everyone again for praying for her and says that she is now off many of her medications.  Priscilla got a new dishwasher.  Her niece Michelle is now doing much better.  It was so good to have Frances back with us!

Ruth said that Lupe asked prayer for herself and her family.  Pray also for Tim and Cindy’s newly expanded household as they adjust after Tim’s daughter moved in.  It’s great to have them with us.  We’re getting enough children now that we might need a children’s program.  Shelly asks that we pray for a patient, Mr. Fritz, a veteran of eighty-six years suffering from multiple health issues.  He also recently lost a broth.  Pray also for another patient, Leon.  Doug is in a lot of pain after his fall about a month ago. His hip and knee are hurting him so that he cannot walk easily.  He did not feel well enough to come.  Keep praying for Austin, Cindy’s granddaughter’s boyfriend, who is having migraines so severe that he goes to the emergency room.  They’ll be performing more tests this week.  Pray for Dede’s family.  Pray for Bob, father of Karen and William, friends of the church, who has recently suffered a stroke and internal bleeding.  Keep praying for Priscilla’s parents, especially Glenn.  Cathy is dealing with the aftermath of flooding at her house.  Lisa needs a Hoyer lift for her son.  Brenda lost her cat to local wildlife.  She tearfully asked prayer for children on her bus, that recently separated parents would work it out for their sake.

Be blessed to be a blessing this week.

Pray for the unknown hacker who damaged our site

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We have an opportunity here  to practice what Jesus told us to do, to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us.

from what I can tell, just after midnight on August 18, someone got into our server and managed to delete the entire contents of our media folder as well as the entries in the database that link to the files.  So even though I was able to restore the files, I have no way to restore the attachments to the galleries on our main page.  The forum is still running and you can still see them in the Gallery there.  I had not yet instituted a system for backing up the actual database, a shortcoming that I assure you will be addressed as soon as we get the current mess cleaned up if not sooner.

As far as I can tell, no other damage has been done,

I don’t understand the motivation of people who do random acts of evil, but I know who it comes from.  Pray for the deliverance and the salvation of the person or persons responsible for this.  It is likely that we weren’t singled out, but that someone found a way to exploit a coding flaw in common software and built a script to hit every site it could find.

Praise and Prayer Requests from Sunday Service of August 24

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Tim is glad to have his daughter Mary and her children with him. They came to church with him. It’s great to see more young faces with us! Kim is thankful for financial blessing in response to her obedience. All of their needs were met. Shelly is thankful that they got the house they want to live in. Linda and I were blesssed to spend time with family yesterday. We are thankful to be able to do it. Cathy is thankful that all the water is out of her house after a water disaster last week. Clarke is grateful just to be here with everyone. Dede praises God that she heard from a cousin with whom she had been out of touch for a long time.

Kim asks prayer for pain. She asks prayer for little Kenny. Brenda passed along a request for prayer for the mother of a coworker Sherri. Pastor David says that Frances has fallen again. Ruth asks prayer as she goes to a specialist for her eyes on Tuesday. Clarke asks prayer for his continued recovery and the boldness to do what he needs to get better. Anita asks prayer as she goes for more tests this week related to her liver and kidney function. Dede asks prayer for a friend who passed out last week and needs a pacemaker. Pray for Dede’s health. Priscilla asks prayer for Michelle who is losing blood after a surgery. Cindi asks prayer for the Terrell family as they adjust to the changes.

Pray for each other this week and be an answer to someone’s prayer.

Praise and Prayer Requests from Sunday Service of August 17

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Linda and I praise God that we got to spend time with family that we don’t get to see often last Monday. Cathy is thankful for a good report from the doctor. Kelly gets to start intensive therapy for six weeks. Brenda had a good time with her friend. Kim is thankful for some pain relief and the support of family. Shelly is thankful for what God is doing in the life of her family. Clarke is doing better.

Shelly asks prayer for a patient whose brother passed away and she is in the hospital. Shelly may be traveling and asks for God’s protection. Ruth asks us to pray for her eyes. They are getting worse and she may not be able to keep driving. She asks prayer for her cousin who injured her leg and may faice complications because of diabetes. Her name is Edith. Pray for Anita who is having trouble with her liver and kidneys. Keep praying for Jerry. Debra says that April’s mother Lois has had a stroke. Dede asks us to keep praying for her family and her health. Don is suffering from allergies. Kenneth asks prayer for help as he stops smoking.

Special Prayer Request

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Linda sent this in on our new web site.  Anyone can now go and submit a prayer request without having to set up a user account.

Pam called to ask that we pray for Ruth’s sister in Georgia. Please pray for Ruth also.

I’m sure we’ll get more detail on Sunday.  I look forward to seeing you all then!

Praise and Prayer Requests from Sunday Service of August 10

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Clarke thanks The Lord for Tim and Cindy and thanks them for helping him out. Shelly is thankful to have her husband home with her. Jana is thankful for the church and glad to be here. April is thankful for a new bag and to reconnect with Debra. Dede is praising The Lord that she was able to pay her bills. Cathy is thankful that they have a buyer for a home they need to sell. Mr. Breedlove is glad to be here and see so many people. Doug’s last test results were good enough that he will be able to have the surgery he needs.

Pastor David says that Jerry is at Baylor in ICU unable to breathe on his own. He is showing improvement. Ruth says that Lupe is sick and asks that we pray for safety for her family who has traveled to Mexico. Ruth also asks prayer for a family who lost a son. Shelly asks prayer for their financial situation to be resolved soon and for Clarke to be able to get the medical help he needs. Jana asks prayer for her sister Terry who has cancer. April asks prayer for her mom who went into the hospital last week with no clear cause for her symptoms. Anita and Kim both have doctor appointments this week. Pray for good reports. Lisa fell today and seems to have seriously injured her knee.

Praise and Prayer Requests from Sunday Service of August 3

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Pam praises The Lord for the rain and cooler weather as do we all. Tim is thankful for The Lord providing for Him. Clarke was able to move into a better place where he can spend more time with Shelly. Cathy praises The Lord that her mother-in-law’s medication issues have been worked out.

Jerry is in the hospital. At this time that’s all we know. Jana has not been well. She asked prayer for her continued recovery. Richard asks prayer regarding a test that he will take in December. Keep everyone in prayer that we know have ongoing issues unresolved. We know that God is good and His grace is sufficient.