Prayers 3 31 2013
*Welcome and Happy Easter!
*Wonderful services beginning with Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and this morning with the Sunrise Service followed by the YMCA’s annual Easter Breakfast
*AFC Offering—we are only a few hundred dollars short of our annual goal of $4100.
*Thailand Mission Trip fundraiser luncheon, next Sunday, 12:30, Fellowship Hall; come upstairs to support the 18 persons going to mission in Chiang Mai this June
*Lanna Coffee was for sale before service this morning; freshly roasted in both ground and whole bean
*Biennial Mission Summit Offering, 2 Sundays from today to support the overall cost of planning a Baptist convention and to sponsor a table for Burmese Baptists who have recently come to the US; hoping to raise $1400.00
*ABC Missions Conference at Allen Temple, April 19-21 sponsored by ABC of the Pacific Central Coast with Reid Trulson from IM speaking
*Don’s honorary degree…
Prayer Concerns
*Jane Young is in hospice care, has cancer but lived her life fully without worrying about it, 88; please call before visiting
Prayer of God’s People
Holy God, today your glory and power is made known in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. We are Easter people because Christ is risen. He is alive! And, where you live, life and light, freedom and salvation, hope and reconciliation break out. You penetrate our lives. You propel us to action. You invigorate our love. All praise and honor and glory be yours as we manifest the risen Christ in our worship and prayer and in our lives today.
While the world is made new again, we still find ourselves facing the challenges of an old world that is fallen with pain and suffering, with troubles and concerns, with death and dying. Guide us through these remnants of this world so that we may believe and trust in your promise of everlasting life in heaven. Be with Jane Young as she completes her life on earth and waiting to enter into your kingdom. Bless her family as they celebrate and cherish these last moments with their loved one. We lift up in prayer for…
Forgive us, O God when we have doubted the fact that Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have died. For since death came through a human being, the resurrection of the dead has also come through a human being; for as all die in Adam, so all will be made alive in Christ. On this happy day of Easter, we pray that we all belong to Christ and when the end comes, we will enter into his Kingdom when every ruler has been destroyed, along with every authority and power and the last enemy to be destroyed is death itself.
Jesus is risen! We pray that Christ is our center of our hope, the ground of our being, the truth of our gospel, and the seed of our salvation. In the name of Jesus Christ, the Risen Lord, we pray, “Our Father…”
Benediction
D Jesus is risen!
V Go with courage!
D Speak with conviction!
V Share the joy!
D Go in the power of the resurrection to live as Easter people in a Good Friday world knowing that God—Father, Son and Spirit—always goes with you.
V Amen. Go in peace!