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| Kristen - June 28 |
| Please pray that Kristen has a fun and safe time at overnight camp. |
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| Anonymous - June 28 |
| Please pray for wisdom and guidance for their family and living situation; for a safe and loving environment for the children to grow and develop. |
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| Stacey - June 28 |
| Please pray for concerns with husband's job and daughter's college. In-laws have health issues which are affecting all family members. There is also stress with her job. |
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| Valerie - June 22 |
| to overcome anger & resentments by the power of the Holy Spirit, to return to the family. |
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| Lyn - June 14 |
| She was just diagnosed witha very agressive breast cancer. She has a tumor in her breast and one lymph node. The doctor's will give her agressive chemo to shrink the tumors. They'll operate when ready. Please pray for her strength, her spirit and a cure. Thank you! |
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| Dennis - June 7 |
| He is an alcoholic on a destructive path since his retirement at the beginning of this year. He is in totally denial and now his health is at risk. As a group of his close friends, we are trying to provide the tough love to help him realize his problem and get him into a program. Please pray for him and his family that he'll realize he has a problem and seek help. |
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| On-Going Requests |
| Thelma - March 24 |
| Thelma, 84, has a fast growing tumor in her colon. Pray for surgeon guidance, complete/easy recovery, peace through it all, that biopsy proves not cancerous. She has a strong faith so pray for family/friends, also. |
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| Roseanna - August 11 |
| Cancer has metasticized into her bones; starting radiation (has had chemo); is in a lot of pain now. |
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| Shirley - May 7 |
| diagnosed w/stage 3 lung cancer; is taking chemo & radiation; is doing well now; please pray for continued strength, peace and healing. |
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| Victims of Southeast Asia (Pakistan, India, Kashmir) Earthquake - October 17 |
| continued recovery from devastation |
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| Victims of Hurricanes Rita, Stan & Wilma - October 17 |
| continued recovery from devastation |
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| Residents of New Orleans, LA, MS, AL; all victims of Hurricane Katrina - October 17 |
| continued recovery from devastation |
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| Anonymous - October 17 |
| continued recovery from devastation |
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Prayer is a personal priority for many of us and we could not go on without it. Here are a number of ways that Chapelwood makes prayer a priority:
o We host two on-site prayer rooms where people pray.
o We provide an online prayer Web site Where thousands of prayer requests have been submitted and prayed for by intercessors.
o Prayer groups regularly pray for the church, community and world.
o Dozens of folks knit prayer shawls that are given to persons in crisis.
o Each November, we highlight prayer and God’s invitation that we be people of prayer.
This year, the Stewardship of Prayer emphasis will provide opportunities for practical, hands-on praying. We’re providing ways for you to experience prayer and to explore some areas of prayer you may not have explored previously. In all three Sanctuary services (8:25, 9:45, 11:10 a.m.) on November 2, 9 and 16, we will introduce a different form of prayer during the pastoral prayer time. Each Sunday, the prayer will be experiential and participatory . . . that is, there won’t be someone praying for us as much as leading all of us into an experience of prayer. Additionally, on those same three Sundays, you will have the opportunity to experience different forms of prayer:
o November 2, from 9:30 – 10:00 a.m., 10:45 – 11:15 a.m. and 12:15 – 12:45 p.m., in the Fellowship Hall, you may pray for others at various prayer stations. Each station will focus on intercessory prayer for a different concern – families, schools and students, the sick, church leaders, community concerns, global concerns and so on. Leaders will give guidance at each station.
o November 9, from 9:30 - 10:00 a.m., 10:45 - 11:15 a.m. and 12:15 - 12:45 p.m., in the Chapel, you may come to experience listening prayer of a more contemplative form known as centering prayer. Leaders will give a brief introduction to the prayer.
o November 16, in the Fellowship Hall, you may experience a more physical form of prayer by walking and praying with a labyrinth. The labyrinth will be open from 9:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m., with persons available to answer questions from 9:30 – 10:00 a.m., 10:45 – 11:15 a.m. and 12:15 – 12:45 p.m. Labyrinths were used in European cathedrals of the Middle Ages when persons could no longer make pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Churches encouraged persons to walk and pray on the labyrinth as a symbol of the spiritual journey and the pilgrimage of faith we are invited to make with God.
We hope you will take advantage of these three Sundays to stretch your prayer life. We are all invited to pray, to know God more deeply through prayer.
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