Wednesday, May 24, 2023

LCMC Great Lakes District Prayer Concerns for June 2023

 

LCMC Great Lakes District

Prayer Concerns for June 2023

 

For the Church:

- Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ 

- LCMC's Staff:

Mike Bradley, Service Coordinator 

Charles Hunsaker, Military Endorser

Christian Huntley, Coordinator for Leadership and Pastoral Development

Sharon Macfayden, Director of Operations

Cathy Nichol, Administrative Coordinator

Julie Smith, Coordinator for Districts and Fellowships

Kristy Thomas, Communication and Public Relations

 

- LCMC's Board of Trustees and Ministry Board.

- Our congregations in the Great Lakes District. This month, we pray for First Faith Community Church in Sandusky, Ohio, and Pastor John Apple; and Good Hope Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zoarville, Ohio, and Pastor Brian Lee Rossow.

- Our Mission Partners: this month, we pray for Camp Penuel in Costa Rica; and St. Peter’s Lutheran School in Niagara Falls, New York.

- Our International Partners: this month, we pray for the Ethiopian Evangelical Lutheran Church Mekane Yesus and LCMC Haiti.

- Our local congregations with whom we fellowship and work alongside for mission and ministry in our communities.

 

 

For our Government:

- Joe Biden, our President.

- Kamala Harris, our Vice President.

- Mike DeWine, the Governor of Ohio.

- Gretchen Whitmer, the Governor of Michigan.

- Our elected representatives in Congress and State Legislatures.

- Our local county and municipal officials.

- Our nation's Armed Forces, especially those serving who are members of our church families; and for those who are suffering from mental or physical injury, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

- Our First Responders, particularly those of law enforcement, fire safety, paramedics, and all medical professionals.


For all those in special kind of need:

- The people of Ukraine and Russia in the ongoing war there; and for Spiritual Orphans Network and others who are ministering to the victims of the war in that region.

- All in our church families who are suffering from physical, mental, or spiritual illness; addiction; injury; abuse; domestic violence; trauma; stress; or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

- All in our own families who are in need of any kind of healing from God, in mind, body, or spirit.

- Those who are continuing to suffer from the effects of COVID-19.

- Those in our church families and communities who are suffering from poverty; homelessness; food insecurity; lack of adequate shelter and/or utilities; unemployment or underemployment.

- Those in our communities who are working to alleviate poverty and homelessness, especially our local shelters, food banks, soup kitchens, and clothes closets.


-                      All those who have suffered from any kind of violence or murder in the past month.

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