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 June 15: Pray for the Woodland congregation, and be in prayer for the National Junior High Conference being held June 20-22 at Juniata College in Pennsylvania—and for all the youth of our district.

Week of June 22: Pray for the Cerro Gordo congregation, and for the work of the Church of the Brethren’s Global Missions office as it connects and works with Brethren communities around the world.

Week of June 29: Be in prayer for the Church of the Brethren Annual Conference as the ‘big meeting’ gathers this week in Greensboro, N.C. Pray for delegates as they make decisions for the church, for Annual Conference director Rhonda Pittman Gingrich, for moderator Dava Hensley and moderator-elect Don Fitzkee, for Conference secretary David Shumate, and for the work of Standing Committee.

Week of July 6: Pray for the Springfield First congregation, and for the Church of the Brethren (Iglesia de los Hermanos) in the Dominican Republic.

Week of July 13: Pray for the ministry of Camp Emmaus in Mount Morris, for all the children, youth, and others who pass through its gate this summer, and for manager Randall Westfall and his family.

Week of July 20: Pray for the La Place congregation, and for the Church of the Brethren Ministry Office as it supports and equips pastors around the denomination.

Week of July 27: For the Charismatic Christian Center in Chicago and for the work of the denomination’s Intercultural Ministries office.

Week of Aug. 3: Pray for the Champaign congregation, and for the faculty, staff, and students of Manchester University in Indiana as they prepare to begin a new year.

Week of Aug. 10: Pray for the Freeport congregation as it marks its 105th anniversary this year, and for the faculty, staff, and students of Bethany Theological Seminary.

Our prayers are also with the family of district financial secretary Leonard Matheny, whose sister Dianne passed away in Tennessee on May 29.