This week's community joys & concerns from January 4, 2025

We continue to pray for:

• Mel Peabody's mother and extended family on the recent death of her sister

• Lela Cox

• Laura Cothhril

• Esther Freeman

• Becky Brown

• Bill Pooresas he seeks proper medical care.

• For the friends of our extended community and families undergoing health challenges; Raven, Margo, Steve and Jose. We pray for Shane and his family, and for Sam as he seeks proper medical care.

We lift up our homebound friends:

• Charlene Housman

• Phyllis Jacobsen

• Dorothy Beeles

• Harry Lobberegt

• Susan Pearson

• Pat Lien

• Jane Nelson

Among our local and global community:

• We hold before you a world aching for peace. We remember all who are caught in violence, displacement, and the long struggle for dignity and safety.

• With the Gospel imperative for justice and peace on our minds, at the start of this new year, we cry out to God for direction and deliverance from the evils we commit and the complicity with which we allow our neighbors to be harmed without our speaking up. We pray for the world, and for all who live in harm's way, including, but not limited to Gaza, Ukraine, Somalia, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Taiwan, Afghanistan and Venezuela. We pray for moral righteousness to imbue the souls and minds of our leaders, as well all of us who have agency to make meaning of the world around us; for the power of love to overcome our very human love of power.

  ·We lift up the LGBTQ+ community, those in the United States, and around the world, seeking care, safety, community, and peace.

• For the village on 6th and Orchard and for those who find themselves without shelter.

• And last but not least, we lift up our Global Ministries Partners, this week in Botswana.

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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