Prayer Chain

[Lee52]

Me too.

 

[Maid Marie]

Thanks, she is feeling better today so hopefully the bizarre test results will be just from being sick and not from luekemia or lymphoma.

But, feel free to pray for my uncle. He needs God to wake him up spiritually and someone to light a fire under him to get off the chair.

 

[Maid Marie]

Could use prayer. I am working through some terrible emotional wounds right now, leaving me really hurting.

And my aunt is doing better. She had a blood disorder but not cancer.

 

[Historicus]

Praying.

 

[GraceSeeker]

Thanks. I need to discuss this more with my pastor next week but right now I am feeling led to do something officially with "Pastor of counseling and recovery ministries" or "Minister of Pastoral Care". It would be a created position at my church so would become whatever my pastor and I wanted it to be. I'm not sure it would all work out and if I should/could get a Masters in Counseling.

Marie, what has come of this conversation from a long time ago? Anything?

 

[Maid Marie]

Marie, what has come of this conversation from a long time ago? Anything?

For my internship next year, my title will be Director of Recovery Ministries. Instead of trying to fit within the existing categories, he made a new one for me. Nothing wrong with the old categories per se but they have emotional ties in some peoples' minds to the old pastor.

If I understand correctly, the month before I will be made unpaid staff which will help me get the experience I need for ordination.

At this stage, I don't feel led to get an MA in counseling but to try to emphasis pastoral counseling more. I am thinking of MA in spiritual formation or M.Div. in spiritual formation, or maybe in Pastoral counseling. Basically, I need to recover from this past year of classes first [they are undergrad level] and then work on preparing for my 6 month internship. Eventually when my mind is bored again and I have the money for it, I will go for grad school. In the Church of the Naz we aren't required to have an M.Div. for ordination so I can take my time getting there. But other than the internship, I am not quite sure what God wants me to do, ministry wise. That will be the focus of my prayers for the month of August.

 

[Historicus]

Please pray for my sister. She's experiencing some serious health issues.

 

[Maid Marie]

Please pray for my sister. She's experiencing some serious health issues.

Will do.

 

[Maid Marie]

Please pray for my friend Alice from my dysfunctional childhood church. This church abandoned me when I needed them [and is why I left]. They have now done the same to her. She is heartbroken. Her only family is her church family. I am very concerned for her future and her health.

 

[Historicus]

Please pray for my friend Alice from my dysfunctional childhood church. This church abandoned me when I needed them [and is why I left]. They have now done the same to her. She is heartbroken. Her only family is her church family. I am very concerned for her future and her health.

I'm praying for her and for the church.

 

[Maid Marie]

I'm praying for her and for the church.

Thanks. The church is...what it is. But I was able to get ahold of a mutual friend who could check in on her and monitor her health. And then starting this Sunday Alice with go to the mutual friend's healthy church. The mutual friend, Nicole, will stick up for Alice with the unhealthy church to make things clear how they dropped the ball. And then our former pastor's wife contacted her from another state to remind her how important she is. So with the three of us coming along her side [though only one can physically be there] and one of them defending her to that church she should be able to make it out of her crisis.

 

[Maid Marie]

I can't go into details, but my church needs prayer this week and in the days to come.

 

[California Dreamin']

Waiting to find out if I have cervical cancer, test results take six weeks and a one week rush was put on mine, and it is almost two weeks.

 

[Maid Marie]

Waiting to find out if I have cervical cancer, test results take six weeks and a one week rush was put on mine, and it is almost two weeks.

Oh dear, that's not good. Will lift you up in prayer

 

[GraceSeeker]

Waiting is soooo hard. May you hear soon.

 

[Historicus]

^ praying!

Let's continue to pray for the victims of Hurricane Sandy and for all those who are responding to that crisis.

 

[GraceSeeker]

Did anyone else see a post on here from SabrinaArmador that's now seemed to disappear? If so, do you know what's up?

 

[Maid Marie]

Did anyone else see a post on here from SabrinaArmador that's now seemed to disappear? If so, do you know what's up?

I just assumed that it was deleted.

 

[GraceSeeker]

I don't remember the name SabrinaArmador as a previous poster in the WP, so I was sort of curious as to why she would post now, and why in a prayer thread something that was not a prayer request or response to prayer? Oh, well. Mysteries.

 

[Gods4Life4Ever]

I would like it if all of us join in lifting up MessianicMommy in prayer that she find a solid, loving UMC or at least Wesleyan doctrine Church in Germany to worship in.