This week's community joys & concerns from May 11, 2025
- FCC Tacoma
- May 16
- 2 min read
Among our joys:
On this Mother's Day, we celebrate the mothers here with us, as well as all those who have a hand in raising up children in the midst of this village of which we are called to be a part. We give God thanks for those who have gone before us, giving thanks for their many sacrifices and acts of love. We also enfold into God's care those for whom this day brings difficulty or grief.
Among our concerns, we add to our prayers:
Cathy Helseth
Cathy Stern's brother-in-law, Dusty Sharrock who is receiving hospice care, along with his wife Karen and their web of family and friends.
We pray for Cathy Stern's son, Aaron Stults and his wife, Ana as they navigate life's challenges, and for Cathy's son-in-law, Keith Smith as he continues his wait for a kidney transplant.
We continue to pray for:
Pat McDaniel
John Rembert
Marc Master
Dan Ledbetter
Laura Cohthril
Danny Jablonski
Charlene Housman
For the friends of our extended community and families undergoing health challenges: Raven, Nancy, Margo, and Steve
We lift up our homebound friends:
Harry and Margaret Lobberegt
Helen Bosley
Dorothy Beeles
Anastasia Cox and her daughter, Lela
Joseph Mills
Harriet Wright
Jane Nelson
Among our local and global community:
We pray for peace and for new avenues of reconciliation and understanding to be the path of our steps, beliefs, and decisions. We lift up those who dwell in danger, including the people of Gaza and Sudan, those in Syria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Myanmar, Ukraine and Somalia.
For the village on 6th and Orchard and for those who find themselves without shelter. We pray for the justice advocacy work done by organizations like our Tiny House Village partners, the Low Income Housing Institute, that ordinary people like ourselves would come to find the vital role each of us have in working together to solve the problems that contribute to health and wealth inequality, so that all may share in the abundance of God's resources, as God has intended.
Finally, join us in lifting up our Global Ministries partners, this week, in Palestine, namely, the Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees (DSPR) clinics in Gaza.
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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