After summer’s busy time, comes fall’s busy time! Awana, Collision, Operation Christmas Child, Bible Breakfast, Sabbath School, Heritage Sabbath…and more. Let’s lift up these ministries in prayer. LORD, we ask for your guidance and blessing upon our fall ministries. Thank you for 25 years of Awana here.Prepare...
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Pastor Nate and Renee Sanford had a good conversation with Nathaniel in August. He is asking us to pray for him for guidance on the next steps in his calling to reach the skateboard community. For several years he has been working with a Christian sports...
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Part of this is a repeat! Because we need to keep focused on praying for camp staff and campers! LORD, let 2022 be a joyful, life-changing summer! Camp Discover (K-3rd grade) – “We are Sheep” – Psalm 23 – Kathleen Holbrook & Doneta Osborn Intermediate Camp (4th-6th...
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Our missions month (June 2022) concluded, with Pastor Nate challenging us to ask God to break our hearts for what breaks His. True confessions time – when I was first asked to participate in our church’s missions efforts (12 years ago), I did not have a heart for...
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This article originally appeared in The Sabbath Recorder, October 2010 issue ...
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Something new this month! Not just one prayer focus – TWO! June is our missions month – so we naturally need to focus our prayers on our field workers and outreach ministries. AND June is the start of our camp season – so we certainly...
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Recently Pastor Nate talked about ways to support our spiritual leaders – through meeting their physical/financial needs and by providing feedback on the impact they have on our lives. Here’s another way to support them – through prayer. We are even instructed to do this in 1 Timothy 2:1:...
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Families! Families share a history. When they gather, families share stories - Stories about grandparents and people we miss. Funny stories about the children growing up. Silly, embarrassing stories about odd relatives. We tell them over and over again - these stories that help us...
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Ukraine is about the size of Texas, but with twice as many people (44 million). A bit of background has helped me pray: Ukraine is a major producer of Europe’s wheat – it generated more than 25% of the entire Soviet Union’s agricultural products. Since gaining its independence...
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The World? Yes, the whole world. After all, the earth is the LORD's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. (Psalm 24:1 ESV) Every month we are sharing one of the 52 handouts prepared by Operation World, which guide us in praying for major...
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