This Sunday: Pray for churches that have fallen pastors
This Sunday at Church I want to encourage you to do the following: Pray for churches that have fallen pastors.
This Sunday: Pray for churches that have fallen pastors
a simple man of God
Hopefully making theology simpler to understand! (2 Corinthians 1:12)
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A Next Gen Moment
This is a call … with a story …
This past Sunday was our promotion Sunday, celebrating our graduating high school seniors.
Only two were present, but that made it more special.
Why?
In 2018, I was given the privilege of starting the youth group for our congregation. I started with only three students – a 7th-grader (the pastor’s oldest son) and two 6th-graders. Last year, that old 7th-grader graduated and is now working toward becoming a pastor through Grand Canyon University’s Barnabas program (which started in 2020 with only 4 students!)
Those two 6th-graders were the two we got to call forward and pray for this weekend.
I was fine during all the preparations. I was tired and mildly stressed due to many volunteers calling in sick or injured and my being the one to make sure all of our Sunday prep was done.
As I walked up to the front to call them forward, it slammed into me:
The last of my founding students were graduating.
I started crying as I took the mic.
The older of the two (by two days) is taking at least a year before college for engineering, because, due to his love for Minecraft, he has already been working for a year with landscape designers. He will also help out with the youth group while here.
The other took some trade school classes as he finished his senior year, and, two weeks earlier, he became certified in autobody work. He wants to follow in his dad’s footsteps to help people by doing something he loves. (His dad runs a local portion of a motorcycle ministry in our area, reaching the rough crowd and helping any in need.)
So, here is the standard call:
Pray for this generation entering the “grown-up world.”
Things are a little crazy. I work in a university setting, and I see what most 18-19-year-olds are facing academically and socially. They need all the prayer they can get!
This Sunday: Talk to missionaries your Church support if they are in town
We just sent out our missionaries, but they greatly enjoy receiving communication from their home church. Missionaries can use home support and encouragement, whether abroad or at home.
Daniel
This Sunday at Church I want to encourage you to do the following: Talk to missionaries your Church support if they are in town.
This Sunday: Talk to missionaries your Church support if they are in town
This Sunday at Church: Encourage someone who normally don’t pray aloud in prayer meeting to pray aloud
For this Sunday here’s what you can do: Encourage someone who normally don’t pray aloud in prayer meeting to pray aloud.
This Sunday at Church: Encourage someone who normally don’t pray aloud in prayer meeting to pray aloud
This Sunday at Church: Pray for the unity of your church pastors
Unity amongst our leadership became a major priority in 2023, which we called “the year of the attack on unity” for our congregation. 2024 was not better, but we have become more close-knit as leaders and even amongst the congregation as a whole.
Pray hard and often for the unity of pastors and elders.
Daniel
This Sunday at Church: Pray for the unity of your church pastors.
This Sunday at Church: Pray for the unity of your church pastors
This Sunday at Church: Pray for Myanmar with the recent Earthquake and ongoing Civil War
This Sunday at Church: Pray for Myanmar with the recent Earthquake and ongoing Civil War.
This Sunday at Church: Pray for Myanmar with the recent Earthquake and ongoing Civil War
This Sunday: If your pastor uses Greek in his sermon preparation, encourage him to continue with his Greek
I use the most Greek in sermons of all our elders, and I am only finally taking a Greek class! It has inspired our pastor to touch up on his Greek, too. May we encourage each other and our pastors.
Daniel
This Sunday at Church I want to encourage you to do the following: If your pastor uses Greek in his sermon preparation, encourage him to continue with his Greek.
This Sunday: If your pastor uses Greek in his sermon preparation, encourage him to continue with his Greek
This Sunday at Church: Pray that youths in the church thinking about Baptism would understand the Gospel
For this Sunday here’s what you can do: Pray that youths in the church thinking about Baptism would understand the Gospel.
This Sunday at Church: Pray that youths in the church thinking about Baptism would understand the Gospel
This Sunday at Church: Pray for the children whose parents are going through separation
This Sunday at Church: Pray for the children whose parents are going through separation.
This Sunday at Church: Pray for the children whose parents are going through separation
This Sunday: Talk to someone you haven’t talked to frequently during Church Fellowship meal
Our next church potluck is 3 weeks from this Sunday. I have already had opportunity to talk with some people I have not been able to talk with much, and I look forward to our picnic. Fellowship is so good.
Daniel
This Sunday at Church I want to encourage you to do the following: Talk to someone you haven’t talked to frequently during Church Fellowship meal.
This Sunday: Talk to someone you haven’t talked to frequently during Church Fellowship meal
a simple man of God
Do we truly love the Lord our God with all our hearts, souls, minds, and strengths? Maybe I can help with the mind part, at least! This is Daniel M. Klem, apparent poet, reluctant yet passionate Disciple (Peter?), and foolish man attempting to understand theology!
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