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 March 15: Pray for Brethren Disaster Ministries and its work at various sites, for district disaster coordinator Rick Koch (Lanark), and for all those who serve in the wake of disasters. Lift up prayers for recovery still happening in North Carolina, Kentucky, Washington state, California, Jamaica, and elsewhere. Also pause to pray for peace in our world.

Week of March 22: Pray for the Dixon congregation, and for the worship and witness of the growing Church of the Brethren faith community in Nigeria (Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria).

Week of March 29: During this Holy Week, quietly consider the gifts that we have been given and what we might need to do to better share them with others. Then rejoice in the new life of Easter, proclaiming the joy and hope of Christ’s resurrection and anticipating what else God might yet do among us.

Week of April 5: Pray for the district’s Gifts Discernment and Call Committee as it calls leaders for the work of the church, and pray that those who receive invitations to serve will discern deeply how God might be calling them.

Week of April 12: Pray for the York Center congregation in Lombard and for the work of the denomination’s Intercultural Ministries as it helps us grow with new languages and new understandings.