This week's community joys & concerns from April 5, 2026

Among our community’s concerns, we add: 

• Marc Master

• Cherry LaCross

• Pat McDaniel

• Lela Cox

• Laura Cohthril

• I thank you for your prayers for myself as I have been navigating my own health challenges. I'm so very grateful to Nate and Roger and all who had an integral role in leading worship in my absence these past two weeks. It is indeed good to be back!

  
  

We pray for the friends and family of our extended community: 

• George

• Raven

• Margo

• Steve

• We lift up our homebound friends and those for whom making it to Church is increasingly a difficult thing to do to a variety of challenges. Let us remember all those who feel isolated, and in our prayers, do what we can to remind them that we love them and miss them.

Among our local and global community:

• We continue to pray boldly for peace, lest we mistake our pacifism with passivity. For there is justice to be done, there is work to be made manifest in the labors of our love and of our community as we are called to stand up for one another and advocate for all of God's children, no matter who they are, where they're from, how they worship or whether they worship at all.

• We do continue to lift to God the village on 6th and Orchard, for those seeking shelter and community of many kinds, and for God's spirit to nudge us to the people and places where we might best use our resources to do ministry like Jesus would do , without prejudice, without hatred, with hope and joy, and confident inclusion

• We pray for all involved in the war in Iran, for the just treatment of all of God’s children, and for a de-escalation of all violence spoken and acted upon in the name of our Creator.

• Last but not least, please join me in lifting our Global Ministries partners this week in Japan.

If you'd like to share a prayer joy or concern, please contact Pastor Doug at doug@fcctacoma.org or by calling the church office. Please indicate whether your prayer is to be shared publicly or if you'd like it to be kept private.

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