Weekly prayers
for the week of April 19, 2024
+In Our Thoughts and Prayers+
Welcome to the Weekly Prayers of First United Church of Christ. Please add these individuals/families to your weekly prayers:
Please Remember in Your Prayers:
- Continued prayer for Yvonne Reindel and Karen Eltringham.
- For Lori V. (recent Cancer diagnosis)
- For our members in Sr. Living facilities: Lucia and Joyce.
- For Lucille Trombley, and all in nursing home or Senior Living facilities.
- We pray for the homebound: Doris Essenburg now living with her son in Iron Mountain.
- Mary Andrews (COPD)
- Hazel Johnson (Age Issues)
- Yuki Dailey (Cancer numbers climbing again)
- Libby (fertility issue)
- the family and friends of Mark Jackson (murdered in Kalamazoo from New Baltimore)
- Lisa Downey (girls softball and basketball coach buried on Monday after brief illness)
- In thanksgiving that Kim S won’t be needing surgery.
- Anybody having medical tests this week,
- those under attack via war, prejudice, hate,
- those who have no home, no food,
- the lonely and the abused.
- Continue to pray for those who have been on our prayer list for a time: Karen, Yvonne, Bobby Peace brother of Terry Hunger
- We pray for those with depression, addiction, housing, food issues.
- For the Search Committees of the Eastern Association. At the present time there are several local churches of the Eastern Association without Pastors. Pastor will be installed soon for First Congregational UCC, New Baltimore.
- We pray for the homebound and lift up all who contact our Pastor for a Communion visit.
- For any in a faith crisis,
- for all medical employees who work with Cancer patients;
- for hospital volunteers, the Ann Arbor specialists especially with Cancer patients.
- In Thanksgiving for Terry H. Cancer-free for nine years now,
- In Thanksgiving for the ER places, Beaumont and Ascension St. John’ now open on 26 Mile.
Please remember to fill out the form in the gathering space for requested prayers OR send them in by phone or email. Please submit prayers to the church email firstuniteducc@outlook.com or daileystory@gmail.com after you have the permission of the people to add them to the prayer list. Some are very private and we want to respect that.
Thanks, KatieD+
First UCC
Prayer Chain
Pastor Katie 586-202-8644
Karen Eltringham 586-291-0615
Christine Hensch 810-385-4391
Kim McCardell 586-623-9833
Want to join our prayer chain? Please call the church office at 586-727-3155.
Wider Church Connections…you just may be interested in:
- Daily Devotional, emailed to you: http://www.ucc.org/daily-devotional/
- Weekly E-Zine with featured items, resources, worship materials, and justice-action items:http://www.ucc.org/news/keeping-you-eposted/
- Information and resources of all kinds from the United Church of Christ: http://www.ucc.org/