Dearest Lord, hold our precious world in your hands, its people, its animals, its skies and seas and mountains and valleys. Send us your Spirit so that we might love creation as you have loved us in Christ Jesus. Dearest Lord, we pray. Dearest Lord, hold our worldwide church in your hands. Although we are […]
We search for you God, even though in you we live and move and have our being. We pray for Justin, Archbishop of Canterbury, Catherine, our presiding Bishop, Greg, our Bishop, Armand, who is with us today, all clergy and us, the ministers of your church, that we, being your presence on this earth, may […]
As our times are in your hands, we pray- For deliverance of the girls abducted by Boku Haram; As our times are in your hands, For victory over all such attempts to intimidate, coerce, or damage; As our times are in your hands, For relief of the miners trapped underground in Turkey, and for their […]
Dear Father Mother God of all being and knowing, We come to you as a community in need of your comforting spirit. Keep us mindful of your love for us in days of sunshine and in the time of pain. Lord, we fill our hearts with the power of your love. We pray with gratitude […]
Protect us who have not seen and yet have come to believe. O Lord, we pray for your church that we, acting on your behalf, may fulfil your mission. Protect us, O God, for we take refuge in you. O Lord, we pray for Catherine, our presiding bishop, Greg, our bishop, Kate and Wray, our […]
For all who have been raised up with Christ in baptism, especially Juliette Marie Wolf McKenney and Megan Heisinger, that they may find joy in God’s wondrous love, Let us pray to the Lord. For the leaders of our Christian community, and especially for our search committee as they exercise their powers of discernment, that […]
Loving God, please hold our world of humans in your tender hands. Help us to be of the mind and heart of Jesus; help us to humble ourselves in obedience to your teachings, that we might love you and one another with all our hearts and minds and soul and strength. Dearest Lord, we pray. […]
Dear Mother Father God, We pray to you with hearts longing to know your peace. Bless Emmanuel Church as a vessel of your love, caring openly for all who enter here, for our community and for those beyond all boundaries. WE PRAY TO YOU WITH HEARTS LONGING TO KNOW YOUR PEACE. We pray for our […]
O Lord, who does not see as mortals see, we pray for the world and your church. Open the eyes of all your children. So, we may live as children of light. O Lord, help Katherine, Greg, Wray and Kate as well as all ministers be faithful leaders empowering us to fulfill your mission. So, […]
Even when we test God or quarrel with our neighbor, God lives in us, and love is perfected in us. When we thirst and do not comprehend the quenching of our thirst, God lives in us, and love is perfected in us. When poverty, illness, or death seem to overwhelm, God lives in us, and […]