First UCC Richmond

+In Our Thoughts and Prayers+

Welcome to the Weekly Prayers of First United Church of Christ.  Please continue to pray for those who have requested prayer and those you keep in the silence of your heart. (prayers can be sent to daileystory@gmail.com). Please, if you are listing first and last name, have permission from the person listed.  We honor that some don’t want mentioned publicly.

• For our Euchre Player, Maurie’s daughter, having surgery on the 23rd.
• For Jamie as she waits to hear about a teaching position.  The private school where she was has closed.
• For Chris Pees (seeking job)
• For our Local Church, all the members and future members
• For all to remember, God doesn’t make junk, all are unique and loved by God for who they are.  Bless all participating in Pride Month.
• For those in dementia, early and late stages and for their family members who need to develop patience as repetition becomes frustrating.  Sometimes people are aware that change is happening to their memories, sometimes not.  Pray for patience for all.
• We give thanks for those on rotation for grass cutting of our grounds.  Thank you Rich, Dave, Jerry, Kim and Ron.
• In Thanksgiving to those who send old fashion mail to our homebound and those we haven’t seen for a time.  Nothing beats holding a hand written note to make one feel remembered and appreciated.
  • Leisure Manor (Chris Hensch) 
    68453 Stoecker
    Richmond, 48062
  • MediLodge of Richmond (Jim Weeks #812)
    34901 Division Road
    Richmond, 48062
• For:
  •  Chris Hensch at Leisure Manor Assisted Living. 
  • Lucia Marshall at East Harbor,
  • Jim Weeks at MediLodge.
  • any in the military being deployed to Iran.    If you know of any off to Iran, feel free to submit their names for prayers.
  • our June Birthdays, Anniversaries;
• Continued Prayer for Carrie Metzger (lung cancer) 
• And we lift up all those women from Scripture who give us strength: 
  • The Widow in Luke’s Reading about the ‘unjust judge’
  • and the daughters of Zelophehad [demanding and determined] ,
  • Sarah for her patience,
  • Rahab for protection,
  • the Mother of Jesus for her trust and faithfulness,
  • for Lydia’s hospitality and sharing of provisions,
  • Vashti’s courage to stand against verbal abuse and exploitation,
  • Phoebe’s serving in generosity
  • and Pricilla’s co-laboring for the Gospel.
• For:
  • continued healing for Terry Hunger after her hand surgery. 
  • For Earl and Mary (on-liners)
  • our homebound and those in Assisted Living or Nursing Homes.
  • all who fall under Neurodiversity, people who have brains that function differently, just different not bad. 
  • us to embrace diversity and be more inclusive.
  • those who can only stay on SNAP if they can prove they have volunteered for a  number of hours. 
  • all to appreciate the people in our lives, from family members, right on down to part time workers, the un-employed, and those in contracted services like weekend liturgical musicians.
  • those who feel un-appreciated, un-celebrated, un-seen and un-heard.
  
  
  • our elders in nursing home (Jim Weeks), Lucia Marshall  (assisted living) is still the ‘social butterfly’ at East Harbor.
  • Carol B (A-fib) and all who are in A-fib
  • Darlene Furtaw (Heart)
  • Jerry McGregor (nursing home), 
  • Fr. Anthony from St. A’s  as he goes through chemo [Stage 4 Cancer] ,
  • Karl Rutledge (memory issues)
  • Jim and Mary Jane in MediLodge,
  • Lucia & Bette Carrothers at East Harbor.
  • Larry Gnaczyk (Heart issues/strength),
  • Brooke Morris (breast Cancer),
  • Mary Jackson (cancer).
  • Earl Jackson (A-fib),
  • Mary Andrews (strength),
  • all World leaders to be led by God and conscience.
  • the homebound.
  • those who check in on our worship after Sunday: inclusive of those we’ve never met in person. 
  • all others on our prayers list with your love and strength.
• Grant Peace to those who lost a loved one recently.  
• Lift up those in early stages of dementia and or already in memory loss,
• for our country
• and in thanksgiving for people like Maryanne Budde who isn’t afraid to speak to power and for the Social Justice group of DMA. 
• Prayers for the Members in Discernment for Ordination.
• For our friends in MediLodge, East Harbor, along with the homebound. 

• For Steve Furtaw (continued strength & health),

• Prayers that we can all recognize the gift of one another so that we can appreciate the gift of God’s presence through one another.  May we open our eyes and see what we can with them before they close forever

• For those in stress about home situation and memory loss situation (Jeff in PA),
• Lynne S. [recovering],
• For any going through medical test,
• for all in Nursing Home’s and/or Assisted Living.
• For the addicted and all who do participate in 12 Step Programs,
• A-fib patients [Sally Hudson with ALS] and those from our local church [they know who they are]
• Dissidence [safety of those taking a stand], 
• For: 
  
  • Mary Rita (continued strength),
  • Jackie W (peace) and for her son Scott (Cancer),
  • Kenny Bodnar Sr. (stroke),
  • Groshe Dimitris (strength/healing/breast Cancer),
  • Jeffrey Hassenger (acceptance),
  • Gregory (strength & determination),
  • Lloyd (memory issue),
  • Dr. Rinki vision)
  • Rich Gonyeau (heart), 
  • Bette Carrothers at East Harbor  
  • Martha Davis in Florida rehab
• Hayley and Hannah and their mom,
• for couples in IVF for conception,
• for any in depression after a long relationship ending,
• for new parents, adoptive parents, and foster parents,
• for those in recovery for addictions and/or anger management and for those who need to realize they need to get into a recovery program
• Assisted Living or Nursing Homes [ Jim, Mary Jane,]
• for shut-ins who receive our snail mail that goes out on Tuesday’s,
• for those in the Salvation Army addiction rehab program,
• for the St. A’s priest that is ill. (he is Fr. Anthony, the Associate Pastor-hopefully his doctor will be as skillful as the one Charlene had)
• For any hurt or killed by ICE. [Renee, Alex]
• Prayers about the situation/unrest in Minneapolis, Venezuela, Greenland, Cuba, Iran, everywhere!
• For all to look for the good that far out numbers the bad in all people - we remember we have a merciful God. 
• For those who frequent the Veterans Hospital especially for PTSD,
• for peace in our country and around the world. 
• For those who have been cut from positions at the VET Hospital in Detroit (you are already missed).
• For Nursing Homes, Assisted Living, and Sr. Facilities to be fully staffed.
• For Meals on Wheels to have enough drivers for delivery of meals.
• For all to be opened to creating new ways of living in mutuality, love and justice with and through one another; help us Lord to live out your love in all we do as we heal divisions, confront enmity, reach out to any we see as enemies (othering).  Meet the needs of others suffering from social, economic and political injustice. 
• For the starving children and all families in Gaza and other war torn areas.
• For all elected to national, state, and local and school boards.
• That God will change Governments with Hearts of Stone.
• For humans to be human,
• for the Gaza children,
• For war no more.
• For families in stress because of an elders declining health, a spouse having recurring difficulty and not an elder,
• In thanksgiving for those on the rotation to cut the grass, and our ‘butterfly angel’.
• For all to be in relationship with God and not only look to God as a resource. Let us be able to answer the question Jesus asked of Peter: do you love me?
• In Thanksgiving for workshops that inform and energize
• We pray for:
  • those we find difficult and un-lovable,
  • the mental health of all,
  • and those with addictions.
• For continued participation in our Association via the COM, Justice, Conference meetings with Conference Minister, and for an extravagant welcome for all who wish to be involved.

Please remember to fill out the yellow sheets in the gathering space for requested prayers and also praise and thanksgivings 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 if they are okay to have their name on our prayers OR give a first name and last name initial only. Some are very private and we want to respect that.
Thanks, KatieD+