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

Among our joys:

• We're grateful to our guest accompanist this morning, Czorni!

Among our concerns, we add to our prayers:

• Cathy Helseth, a close friend of Bill Poores, and the spouse of Rev. David Helseth who was recently diagnosed with brain cancer. She has had surgery and is now in the process of a multi-month regiment of chemo and radiation therapy. Please pray for strength, peace and the daily bread needed for Cathy, David, and all her caregivers and loved ones as she battles this disease.

  ·We also add to our prayers Cathy Stern's brother-in-law, Dusty Sharrock who as discharged last week from the hospital and entered hospice care. We also lift up Dusty's wife, Karen, and all Cathy's extended family in this difficult time for comfort and peace.

• We pray for Cathy Stern's son, Aaron Stults and his wife, Ana as they navigate life's challenges, and we also pray 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.

• 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 India.

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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