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| Sharon - August 31 |
| Part of the tumor remains but is confined, but she is not back to a normal routine. She is still on a chemo program and seems to be responding well. She has a lot of pain in her upper arms and legs. Thank you for her prayers and please continue to pray for her and her family. |
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| Madie - August 30 |
| Madie (14 months) fell into her babysitter's pool and was then life flighted to the hospital. She is in stable condition, but has many challenges to overcome. She is showing signs of improvement, but there are still problems. Please pray for, her parents, family, doctors, nurses and for the babysitter. |
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| Anonymous - August 30 |
| please pray for him & doctors at Cleveland Clinic; he & his parents will be there Sept 7-11 to discuss the Wegeners Granulomatosis he battles. Please pray that his heart will accept their advice & feel he is not alone, that God is in him & with him. |
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| Judy - August 30 |
| Cancer - Please pray for healing and comfort. |
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| Lauren - August 15 |
| Please pray for continued guidance and clarity in the healing of my thyroid. |
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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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