This week's community joys & concerns from September 21, 2025

Among our joys:

• I am delighted to announce that a friend of our community, former artist-in-residence Tori Fields, has been selected to display her artwork in one of the famous Woolrich Windows of downtown Tacoma! This coveted venue is one that marks an impressive milestone in Tori's career as she presents a vignette of "life deconstructed" - with all the toils and joys and wonders that lie there within. The window will be on display for the next several weeks and it can be found downtown on the corner of South 11th and Broadway. We share our congratulations with Tori and wish her godspeed as she continues her journey of creativity.

Among our prayers concerns, we add:

• Peter Wright, who is taking a medical leave of absence. We pray for his spirit and body as he receives care and manages pain.

Among our Concerns, we continue to pray for:

• Lela Cox

• Bill Poores

• Laura Cohthhril

• Danny Jablonski

• Cathy Helseth

•  For the friends of our extended community and families undergoing health challenges, Raven, Margo, and Steve. Among our extended community concerns, we add to our list a friend of Betty Alvarado and family, Jose Llaven, who is in a critical medical condition, as he receives treatment and navigates this difficult time.

We lift up our homebound friends:

• Charlene Housman

• Phyllis Jacobsen

• Dorothy Beeles

• Anastasia Cox and her daughter, Lela

• Harry Lobberegt

• Jane Nelson

• Pat Lien

• I invite you to join me in lifting up a friend of the community, Ronnie Bush and her family, as she grieves the sudden death of her husband, Jim, two weeks ago. The Bushes have come to call FCC Tacoma their spiritual home and we are honored to provide a memorial service for Jim here in the sanctuary this Saturday at 11am, where all are invited. Please keep Ronnie, her children, extended family and friends in your prayers for God's comfort and peace.

Among our local and global community:

• In the midst of political violence here in the United States, let us pray for understanding and compassion to prevail. For hearts to be softened from words of defiance to eyes and ears of understanding; for those who live in fear to be seen and to be heard and to be found.

• We pray for peace and compassion throughout the world. Amongst many who find themselves in places of conflict or struggle for justice 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 Lebanon.

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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