Sept. 1-15 let us pray for:
1) Pleasant View Mennonite, Transitional Pastor Jim
(Debby) Sutton, North Lawrence
u Thanks for praying for Pleasant View and for
including us in the Prayer Prompter. Please
pray for our fall outreach to our neighbors in the North Lawrence community in
September. Pray as we seek God to grow His church. Also, pray for the Pastoral
Search team as they begin the search process seeking a long-term pastor.
2) The cross-cultural opportunities through the…
Sixth
Intercultural Fiesta, Sept. 8 at Central Christian School, Kidron
Ninth
Fiesta Familiar, Sept. 9 at Lima Mennonite Church
- May these be rich times of getting to know each other and building meaningful relationships.
3) Ministry Development Team (MDT) of Ohio Conference
meets Sept. 12
- Pray for Norma Duerksen, chair, as she facilitates.
- Pray for Holy Spirit and group discernment as MDT plans programs and allocates funds to different projects.
4) Alfonsina Oyanguren, Argentine mission worker
supported by Pike and Sonnenberg churches
- Praise God for protecting Alfonsina during a difficult pregnancy. Pray for a healthy baby, scheduled to be born by cesarean section Sept. 14. May God bless the entire family as they continue to serve in the Argentine Chaco.
5) Let us pray for Bob Wengerd, Pastor at North Lima
Mennonite Church
- Would you pray for renewed strength and energy for me. I'm trying to bounce back from a sudden illness that hit me on July 20. Supposedly it was a virus. The recovery has been slow. I've preached the last three weeks, but sitting down.
6) Norma
Duerksen reminds us to pray for all the food pantries in our Conference
churches as they try to meet the needs of a growing number of people in financial
crisis. May God guide these food pantries as they make decisions about how
to stretch a limited amount of funds to meet the most needs.
Sept. 16-30 let us pray for:
1) Salem Mennonite, Pastor Paula (Darrin) Snyder
Belousek, Elida
- Please pray for Salem MC, Elida, on Sunday, Sept 16, as we host our annual outdoor service and fun day on the church grounds. Pray that friends and neighbors will join us and encounter the love of Jesus through this event.
2) Resourcing opportunities for congregations with multiple
staff members
Sept. 19,
at Camp Luz, Kidron
Sept. 26,
at Widewater Retreat Center, Liberty Center
- May these be times of enrichment and team building.
3) Ohio Mennonite Women’s Retreat, Sept. 21-23 at
Camp Luz, Kidron
4) Chaplain Charles Gautsche, Fairlawn Retirement
Center, Archbold
- In my work I relate to persons of all denominations and some with no church relationship. In our retirement and long-term care community we have 3-5 deaths each month with an equal number of new persons to build relationships with. These end of life relationships often bring a lot of baggage with them. Pray that Christ Jesus will be made known to each one and spiritual healing may be experienced.
5)
Chaplain Robert Halfhill, Majora Lane and Holmes County Home, Millersburg
6)
Chaplain Tom Michaels, Hospice, Millersburg
- Pray for God's presence to be experienced by our patients in each of our team members. Pray for God's working in the lives of those entrusted to our care.
7) Chaplain
Hector Velez, Disciples
of Jesus Motorcycle Club, Archbold
Oct. 1-15 pray for:
1) Annual Conference Assembly planning committee
meets Oct. 3
- Pray for Sherah-Leigh Gerber as she facilitates this planning and brings together many details.
2) Primera Iglesia Menonita, Lay Leader Tony
(Martha) Ortiz Jr., Helena
3) Salem Mennonite, Administrative Pastor Robert
Stuckey, Waldron, Mich.
- Please pray for congregational decision making regarding expansion of our facilities.
- Pray for newly formed Vision Leadership Team and Spiritual Gifts Team.
- Pray for Nick and Shari Ladd family at Hesston College where Nick is enrolled in the Pastoral Ministries Program. Thank you so much.
4) Salem Mennonite, Pastor Tim (Loretta)
Singenstreu, Wooster
5) Sharon Mennonite, Pastor Robert (Vickie) Yoder,
Plain City
6) Ross Miller, chair of the Church Planting Resource
Team of Eastern Ohio
- Pray as we seek God’s direction in where He would like us to plant more churches. Pray for the church plant in Solon, Ohio, and for Larissa Moore, the church planter. Lee Heights Community Church and Robin Miller are overseeing the church plant. Thanks.
7) Jake and
Grace Leichty send this
prayer offering:
- One of our big prayer concerns is for the families in our church(es). With the strong influence of sports in our community, and probably others, little time is left for family devotions and important church programs and activities. Competition is very strong, and I believe, has a greater influence on our churches than we are imagining. I think families are needing to pray for discernment in this area. Marriages in general struggle as well.
Oct. 16-31 pray for:
1)Mennonite
Mission Network and Mennonite Education Agency, hold joint board meetings Oct.
18-21.
- Pray for wisdom and decisive insight for leaders setting direction for ministries associated with these boards.
2) Central
Christian School,
Kidron, Bethany Nussbaum, Advancement Director, shares:
Please pray for:
- Community Service Day (our student-led, service fundraiser) as we transition from the spring to the fall. Pray for energy and enthusiasm for the callers and generous heart for the constituents who receive the call. Our service day is Oct. 19 this year.
- Our new students, that they would feel very loved and welcome in our halls and classrooms.
- Our new international host families as they develop their relationship with the student and learn the joys and challenges of giving guidance to someone from another culture.
3) Laura Schlabach, Mennonite Mission Network (MMN)
worker, in Mongolia
- Pray for Laura as she is on North American Ministry, as she travels, educates people about ministry in Mongolia, and finds time for renewal and retreat. Laura will speak in several Ohio Conference congregations.
4) Tom
Kauffman, Ohio Conference Minister shares:
- Pray for the Constituency Leaders Council (CLC) gathering on Oct. 22-24, which includes representatives of all 21 area conferences and the Executive Leadership and associate groups and agencies of MC USA. Sherah-Leigh Gerber, Norma Duerksen and I will be attending from Ohio Conference.
5)
LifeSpring, School of Spiritual Formation: contacts are Judy Ringler at judyringler77@embarqmail.com
and Dana Short at mdshort@embarqmail.com. Dana shares this request:
- Please pray for LifeSpring, as it continues to follow God’s guidance in the spiritual formation of God’s people. Pray for those who are feeling God’s nudges to travel this inner journey of love. And pray for the leaders of the school as they discern God’s path.
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Compiled by Mattie Marie Mast, mmmast@zoominternet.net
Prayer Prompter
can be found on the Ohio Conference website: www.ohiomennoniteconference.org.
Go to “Resource Teams” and select “Prayer Ministry.”
