Sunday, September 13, 2009
September 13, 2009
Hello everyone,
I’m sorry that I haven’t been sending out the weekly updates for a while. I was out of town for most of the summer (especially the weekends) and I am planning on getting back in the routine now. I am starting afresh with our prayer concerns. Please let me know if there is someone you would like to have included. Thank you.
Please join us in praying for the following people and situations this week:
“In Praise and Glory, Maxwell Scott Yackel was baptized last week in Woodbine, Georgia.” Maxwell is the grandson of Lisa and Scott Yackel.
The family of Mitch Purdue who passed away this week. His daughter, Crystal Cheek, is a 1st grade teacher at RHPS.
Bob DeVries and Family as their sister Majorie Major passed away from cancer this week
Tim Cooke and his wife Brandi as she is having surgery on Monday
Richard Worsham who will be having surgery on Wednesday to remove a melanoma. We pray that they are able to get it all and that the follow up test results are good.
Praise report for Susanna Kirby’s daughter-in-law, Rhonda Minning, who has received good news following the removal of a mole which had become cancerous (melanoma). The follow up biopsies of tissue and lymph nodes were all negative. Susanna thanks us for the prayers and concerns for Rhonda.
Amy Irhig, the daughter of Jan Davis, who is undergoing treatment at Memorial Hospital for blood clots. Jan is a new member of our Church and a neighbor of Bob and Betsy Wilson’s.
Continued prayers for Jennifer Blanton and her family following the death of her father, John Ross
Continued prayers for Graham Leggett following the death of his wife, Eleanor
Pat Brown, a relative of Del and Sue Turner’s, recovering from heart and surgery
Matthew, a fourteen year old friend of Canon Rooker, who is undergoing treatment for cancer
Jimmy Royals- Don Royals’ Dad
Louise Johnson, Tami Garrett’s Mother
Cheryl and Glen Fox’s friends, John and Jenny have been in our prayers for sometime. They have shared their good news with us recently regarding John’s treatment for cancer and the good results that have followed. After 4 treatments, the tumors are shrinking and he is feeling “like his old self again.” John has almost completed the treatment and will have follow up scans beginning in two months.
Buck Gillispie, Greg's father in Alabama, is home after double bypass surgery a week ago. He is making wonderful progress, and is expecting a full recovery.
Pastor Greg's bout against Bell's Palsy is now over. the numbness in his facial muscles has subsided 100% and he is back to full health. To God be the glory for health and recovery.
The Rev. Greg Garis, our executive presbyter, pastor to our southeast Georgia region, has asked that individuals and congregations be in specific prayer for the Swainsboro Presbyterian Church. That congregation has dwindled to only a handful of worshipers on Sunday mornings. They and the presbytery's Church Development Team are in a process of prayerful discernment, regarding options for that church's potential renewal, or closure, or transformation. May the God of resurrection make his intention known as possibilities there are explored and followed.
In the week ahead, Presbyterians nationwide are asked to pray for our theological seminaries. These schools train new generations of leaders, teachers, mission workers and servants. The seminaries also provide research and discoveries for the whole church related to Biblical scholarship, theological understandings, models for church vitality, and Christian responses to cultural changes.
Please pray for our seminaries' faithfulness, wisdom, and strength; for the students and the faculty at each school, and for those who are seeking to discern their unique calling to various forms of Christian service. Here is a prayer suggested by our national theological education office:
We pray for our theological seminaries [Austin, Columbia, Dubuque, Louisville, McCormick, Pittsburgh, Princeton, San Francisco, Johnson C. Smith, Union Presbyterian Seminary, Auburn, and Evangelical of Puerto Rico], and for the work of seminaries and churches together.
We give thanks for the women and men who have answered your call to ministry and for the professors and administrators who help to shape them for your service.
Challenge and nurture them with your Word.
Strengthen and stir them with your Spirit.
God, in your wisdom ...hear our prayers! Amen.
Thank you and have a blessed week,
Ellen
Hello everyone,
I’m sorry that I haven’t been sending out the weekly updates for a while. I was out of town for most of the summer (especially the weekends) and I am planning on getting back in the routine now. I am starting afresh with our prayer concerns. Please let me know if there is someone you would like to have included. Thank you.
Please join us in praying for the following people and situations this week:
“In Praise and Glory, Maxwell Scott Yackel was baptized last week in Woodbine, Georgia.” Maxwell is the grandson of Lisa and Scott Yackel.
The family of Mitch Purdue who passed away this week. His daughter, Crystal Cheek, is a 1st grade teacher at RHPS.
Bob DeVries and Family as their sister Majorie Major passed away from cancer this week
Tim Cooke and his wife Brandi as she is having surgery on Monday
Richard Worsham who will be having surgery on Wednesday to remove a melanoma. We pray that they are able to get it all and that the follow up test results are good.
Praise report for Susanna Kirby’s daughter-in-law, Rhonda Minning, who has received good news following the removal of a mole which had become cancerous (melanoma). The follow up biopsies of tissue and lymph nodes were all negative. Susanna thanks us for the prayers and concerns for Rhonda.
Amy Irhig, the daughter of Jan Davis, who is undergoing treatment at Memorial Hospital for blood clots. Jan is a new member of our Church and a neighbor of Bob and Betsy Wilson’s.
Continued prayers for Jennifer Blanton and her family following the death of her father, John Ross
Continued prayers for Graham Leggett following the death of his wife, Eleanor
Pat Brown, a relative of Del and Sue Turner’s, recovering from heart and surgery
Matthew, a fourteen year old friend of Canon Rooker, who is undergoing treatment for cancer
Jimmy Royals- Don Royals’ Dad
Louise Johnson, Tami Garrett’s Mother
Cheryl and Glen Fox’s friends, John and Jenny have been in our prayers for sometime. They have shared their good news with us recently regarding John’s treatment for cancer and the good results that have followed. After 4 treatments, the tumors are shrinking and he is feeling “like his old self again.” John has almost completed the treatment and will have follow up scans beginning in two months.
Buck Gillispie, Greg's father in Alabama, is home after double bypass surgery a week ago. He is making wonderful progress, and is expecting a full recovery.
Pastor Greg's bout against Bell's Palsy is now over. the numbness in his facial muscles has subsided 100% and he is back to full health. To God be the glory for health and recovery.
The Rev. Greg Garis, our executive presbyter, pastor to our southeast Georgia region, has asked that individuals and congregations be in specific prayer for the Swainsboro Presbyterian Church. That congregation has dwindled to only a handful of worshipers on Sunday mornings. They and the presbytery's Church Development Team are in a process of prayerful discernment, regarding options for that church's potential renewal, or closure, or transformation. May the God of resurrection make his intention known as possibilities there are explored and followed.
In the week ahead, Presbyterians nationwide are asked to pray for our theological seminaries. These schools train new generations of leaders, teachers, mission workers and servants. The seminaries also provide research and discoveries for the whole church related to Biblical scholarship, theological understandings, models for church vitality, and Christian responses to cultural changes.
Please pray for our seminaries' faithfulness, wisdom, and strength; for the students and the faculty at each school, and for those who are seeking to discern their unique calling to various forms of Christian service. Here is a prayer suggested by our national theological education office:
We pray for our theological seminaries [Austin, Columbia, Dubuque, Louisville, McCormick, Pittsburgh, Princeton, San Francisco, Johnson C. Smith, Union Presbyterian Seminary, Auburn, and Evangelical of Puerto Rico], and for the work of seminaries and churches together.
We give thanks for the women and men who have answered your call to ministry and for the professors and administrators who help to shape them for your service.
Challenge and nurture them with your Word.
Strengthen and stir them with your Spirit.
God, in your wisdom ...hear our prayers! Amen.
Thank you and have a blessed week,
Ellen
