In your prayers (in church and at home) please remember: Barack, our President, the Senate, the House of Representatives, and our Courts of Justice; together with all elected officials (including especially members of this congregation), and the other leaders of our country and the nations of the world. We pray for peace in Israel, Gaza, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East. We pray for our partner churches, St. Paul’s of New Orleans, and St. Peter’s by the Sea, Gulfport, Mississippi. We pray for Rowan, Archbishop of Canterbury; Katharine, our Presiding Bishop; Charles, our Bishop; Donald, Suzanne, Bob, Sam and Ann, our parish clergy; and Chad and Sue, our seminarians; our missionaries, and all other bishops and ministers. We pray for ECW, EfM, Stephen Ministries, The Brotherhood of St. Gregory, St. Matthew’s Men’s Shelter, and St. Catherine’s Women’s Shelter.
We pray for the men and women in our Armed Forces and their families especially: Chaplain Will Hood, Adam Rose, Justin R. Harp, Garrett Holt, Richard Vale, Bowe Bergdahl, Brennan Duffy, Harrison, Clairalyn, Glen, Kep, and Chip. We pray for the unemployed and underemployed, especially those in our congregation and community.In the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer: Please pray for St. Stephen, Oak Ridge and St. John, Deadwood, S.D.In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer: Please pray for The Rt. Rev.Henry Cuir Riak, Bishop of Wau Diocese.
We Pray For the ill and distressed: especially for Erin Scott, Georgia Macris, Sam White, Presh Abernathy, Jim Cox, Joe Restano, Jill Cavan, Kent, Clarence Wall, John Ross Hawkins, Guy Gowen, Joan Shadden, Alex Roberson, Laurie Mercer, Raymond Pollard III, Zachary Williamson, Sandy, Julie and Frank, Nicholas and Brittany, Joe and Sue, Calder Willingham, Dave Dickert, Ryland Matlock, Jean Gumnick, Dick Martin, Carol Davis, Kurt Stagmaier, Jarman and all who love her, John, Jackie Sullivan, Alice Tillett, Rett Hixson, and Trevor Slayton. We give thanks for our many blessings: especially this week for the ministry of the St. Paul’s Knitters, the ministry of The Reverend Zach Drennen, and the birthdays of John Mowrer, Allison Mowrer, and Shannon Mowrer. We Pray For those who have departed into the larger life: especially for Mr. and Mrs. Rupert Colmore, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Brooks, and Lewis Kimble Gooden.
