This week's community joys & concerns from March 8, 2026

Among our concerns, we continue to lift up:

• Marc Master, Cherry LaCross, Pat McDaniel, Lela Cox and Laura Cohthril.

• For the friends of our extended community and families undergoing health challenges: George, Raven, Margo, and Steve.

• We lift up our homebound friends and those for whom making it to Church is increasingly a difficult thing to do. 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 pray for peace, for the sobering of the minds of those with a point as well as clarity for all the rest of us about how we're to live out the Gospel within our own contexts with our own skills, gifts, and perspectives. We give thanks to God for the warmth of the fire, but we remember those for whom this warmth is not so readily available, and in so doing, we are reminded of the work we're called to do as disciples to care for them as Jesus would.

• We pray for 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 our Global Ministries partners this week in Costa Rica.

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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