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 April 15: Be in prayer for the district’s Ministry Leadership Development Team as it encourages current and future pastors, chaplains, and others who are called to lead the church, and for TRIM ministry training coordinator Mary Jessup. Also pray for the clergy retreat that MLDT will be coordinating in Rockford this week.

Week of April 22: Pray for the Martin Creek congregation, and for the Church of the Brethren Office of Ministry as it supports and equips pastors around the denomination.

Week of April 29: Pray for the Springfield First congregation, and for the expansive ministries of Heifer International, SERRV, and other organizations that received their start in the Church of the Brethren.

Week of May 6: Pray for the La Place congregation, and for the “Part-Time Pastor, Full-Time Church” program as it seeks to support and encourage small congregations and their pastors.

Week of May 13: Pray for the Champaign congregation, and for all the church’s ongoing efforts to live out the vision of being “Jesus in the Neighborhood” through community outreach.