Prayers 7 22 2012
*Welcome!
*Summer Series with Jerry Mann, pastor of Sunset Ministry who will update us on the life of the church
*Welcome Reception for Visal and Lindsey Sok, 12:30-1:30, Fellowship Hall
*Lands of Luther Orientation Session #1, 1:30, 3rd floor classroom; if you are interested in this trip and would like to learn more about it, please come
*Next Sunday, 9:00 Worship will be in the sanctuary since our PA system will be used at Youth Camp; be aware of the reality that there’ll be people here before you come!
*Church Picnic tickets are being sold by the Social Committee; Picnic and outdoor worship on Sunday, August 26th, Ortega Park, Sunnyvale
*Finance Committee is on August 18 and not the 25 as the bulletin indicates
Prayer Concerns
*Alan Fong’s sister-in-law, Jane Fong, 55 has ovarian cancer with perhaps a month to live; 3 adult age children
*Tragedy in Aurora, Colorado where 12 people died and almost 50 wounded from a shooting on Thursday night
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Prayer of God’s People
Light of the world, Beacon in darkness, everlasting God, shine in our hearts at this time of worship and prayer. Draw us out of ourselves and into fellowship with your people, those who share our pew as well as those around the world. We are strangers no more but together we are part of your fellowship. We who were far apart are now drawn near in Jesus.
Today, dear Lord, we are still shaken by the horrifying details of lives taken away from families whom we may not know personally but as a people who were once all far off from each other as strangers but are now unified together as one humanity in Christ, we are saddened and praying for those who have lost loved ones and many who were only youth and young adults. We pray for those who were injured that they may recover. And we pray for the arrested young man who has been identified as the shooter and his family at this time of great remorse. O God, help us to find consolation at this time of national grieving. And we do pray for our lawmakers to take a courageous review of the gun-control legislation that we have that permits disturbed and angry people to kill innocent people. Dear God, save us from our sins.
Lord, we pray for those who are in need of your miracles and blessed assurance. Be with Alan Fong’s sister-in-law, Jane Fong who is fighting ovarian cancer that these remaining days serve to bring loved ones together for meaningful conversations and goodbyes in this life and anticipating the next one with hope and joy. Be with…
Thank you, O God for watching over Day Camp in the past 5 weeks and we pray for the final preparation for this year’s Youth Camp that begins next Sunday. May the Good News of Christ be continued in the lives of the youth who will deepen their faith through Bible studies, simulation games, powerful worship and singing, and the many one-to-conversations that will introduce Jesus to them as their Lord and Savior. Be with Matt Chin and Jonathan Wong and the entire Youth Camp staff as they lead next week.
O Lord, you are the God who has been with us wherever we have gone, and will go before us in wisdom and truth. In the name of Christ Jesus, we pray who taught us to pray together, “Our Father…”
Benediction
And now may the God of the United States and China,
Of all the countries that will participate in the 2012 Olympics
As well as those that for some reasons they can’t,
Begin to bring the peace of Christ as a gift of healing in a broken world.
May we give the Olympic Jesus the gold this week!
Amen.