Pastor’s Corner – July 6, 2023

Thank you for your participation in worship (virtually or in person) and for your involvement in ministries teams and all the ways you share Jesus’ love each day.  Thank you for your prayers.  With less than a month until students and school staff begin a new school year, I would greatly appreciate your prayers for all students, their families, and all school staff.  Your prayers for children, teens, and adults participating in Friedens Vacation Bible School from July 17 to July 21 would also be deeply appreciated.  We will be celebrating them on Sunday, July 23. 

It is always an honor and gift to pray with you.  Please feel free to send specific ways that we may be holding you in prayer if you’d like to.  Here is a prayer that I’m offering for you as I write this note.

Creating and Compassionate God of mighty mercy and powerful patience, thank you for loving us.  Thank you for accepting us right where we are, just as we are, with all our questions.  Thank you for your transforming grace and for designing us with gifts to be woven together for the good of all.  Thank you for joining us in communities of care and for offering us healing of body, mind, and spirit.  May we continue to know and share your kindness, hope, and joy near and far that all may live fully and freely in your deep overwhelming peace, wellness, and shalom.  May your belovedness be experienced by all.  Amen.

“We thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you…”  (Colossians 1:3)