We’ll be observing Mother’s Day and Father’s Day over the next few weeks, so now is a good time to focus our prayers on the families in our church.  If there is anywhere that Christ should be reflected, it is in our homes.  It is one place at which our enemy attacks all of us.  Our primary resources in resisting Satan’s attacks are the Word and prayer.  Pray this week not only for your own family, but also for other families within our church.  Perhaps pick out some friends, or those sitting around you in the worship service, or perhaps particular families that you know to be struggling in some of their relationships.  Let the Scripture below guide you in your prayers.

“Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.”  -- Ephesians 5:21  (NIV)
 
“However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.”   – Ephesians 5:33  (NIV)
 
“Children, always obey your parents, for this pleases the Lord.  Fathers, do not aggravate your children, or they will become discouraged.”  -- Colossians 3:20-21  (NLT)
 
“Fathers, don’t stir up anger in your children, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.”   -- Ephesians 6:4  (CSB)
 
“Honor your father and mother.”  -- Exodus 20:12  (NLT)
 
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.”   --Deuteronomy 6:4-7  (NIV)

WEEKLY PRAYER UPDATE –  May 6, 2026
Missions:  
Senator Barnes & family –  East Asia Anti-Human Trafficking Initiative for World Ventures
Stephen & Sabrina Marshall –  church planting in France
Capstone Church, Helena, Montana – Caleb Groteluschen, pastor; Ben Quigg, worship leader
Juan Pablo and Sol Herrera –  Hispanic ministry in Ponder

Church:
Participants in Parent-Child Dedication, May 10
Enlistment of VBS staff
Staff search for worship leader
This week’s worship service, Bible studies, and BodyBuilder groups

Personal Needs:
Spiritual awakening in our community, in our nation
Salvation -- Those on your "Who's Your One?" list
Becky Boettcher —  on May 14 undergoing lumpectomy, followed by radiation
Lincoln, 3 yr old son of Brenda Davidson's niece – having surgery to repair a birth defect of the brain stem
Blake Crutsinger – Ponder coach in ICU with fractured skull, brain swelling due to being accidentally hit with a shotput at the high school regional track meet
Manda Marquis Campbell – hospitalized with fungal infection in her lungs that could spread to brain
Pat Potter  -- doing well in recovery at home following surgery related to uterine cancer
Charlotte Hodges (Darrell Pope's sister) – diagnosed with bone cancer
Gary Carrington –  has moved to assisted living facility in Rowlett, continues under hospice care
Shelly Pope –  beginning phase one of immunotherapy trial treatment for stage 4 liver cancer
Martha Wyatt – at home now, recovering from cracked vertebrae in neck from fall
Kerr Broadstreet  (Kim's brother) – cancerous tumor in shoulder has begun to grow again
Tristen Garza (grandson of longtime PISD administrator, Kent Josselet) – experiencing difficulties with lower extremities, with walking; undergoing testing and physical therapy
Tommy Bean –  needing renewed strength following his mini-stroke
Halle Deaton (25 yr old former member from Krum)   – recovering well from surgery related to breast cancer
Those in assisted living/nursing homes:  Barbara Nofziger, Carolyn Gillespie, Mary Alice Benton
Our government leaders
First responders