IN OUR PRAYERS

A district prayer calendar has been created for your use in praying for our district and related programs through the year. We invite you to include the following in your prayers in coming weeks: 

• Week of Feb. 13: Be in prayer for the Leadership Team of our district, including chair Carol Kussart (Cerro Gordo) and vice chair Jonathan Shively (Highland Avenue), as it makes decisions in the year ahead.
• Week of Feb. 20: Pray for the Yellow Creek congregation as it celebrates its 175th anniversary this year, a long legacy of ministry in northwestern Illinois.
• Week of Feb. 27: Pray for the Chicago First congregation, and for the work of the denomination’s Intercultural Ministries office.
• Week of March 6: Pray for the Panther Creek congregation, and for the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria (Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria)—where the denomination’s mission work began 100 years ago.
• Week of March 13: Pray for Brethren Disaster Ministries and its many responses, for district disaster coordinator Loren Habegger, and for all those who serve in various locations.
• Week of March 20: Pray for the district’s Program and Arrangements Committee and the Gifts Discernment and Call Committee, as the members of those teams work on plans for district conference and call out leadership for our district.