One important day every year for our church family is the Sunday we conduct our annual business meeting, and that is this coming Sunday.  After the worship service we will conduct important business matters – affirming who will lead us in various areas on our committees and adopting a 2026 budget, along with discussing some other important matters.   It is critical that we align our hearts and minds with God's and that we seek to please Him in all of our decisions. In aligning our hearts and minds with God’s, our hearts and minds will be unified with one another. This is important, for unity is critical to our mission as the church.

“We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,  so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way . . .”    --  Colossians 1:9-10  (NIV)

“Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind.”   -- Philippians 2:1-2  (NIV)
 
“Now may the God who gives endurance and encouragement grant you to live in harmony with one another, according to Christ Jesus, so that you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ with one mind and one voice.”   -- Romans 15:5-6  (CSB)
 
Pray that . . . 

• We will clearly discern, as a church, the will of God in all matters.
• We will commit ourselves to obeying fully what God reveals to us as His will.
• We will experience a profound unity with each other.
• God will be glorified in and through our church in greater ways than ever in 2026.

 
WEEKLY PRAYER UPDATE –  January 7, 2025

Missions: 
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
Senator Barnes & family –  East Asia Anti-Human Trafficking Initiative for World Ventures
Pray for the persecuted church in China -- China's crackdown on underground churches intensifies with new arrests

Church:
Consideration of budget and committees for 2026 – business meeting this Sunday
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
Praise! -- Randy Ramey (He & wife, Elise, are among our newest members) – received new kidney this past Friday – is doing well; will be in Phoenix to be near hospital for 4-6 weeks

Tommy Bean –  needing renewed strength following a recent mini-stroke
Shelly Pope –  just began new chemo treatment – Pray specifically that God will guide the chemicals directly to tumors in her liver
Chary Horton –  in rehab at Longmeadow in Justin following surgery to repair broken arm; scheduled to go home this Saturday
Judy Vaughan – recovering from broken collarbone following recent fall
Steve Simpson –  seeking to have stoma surgery scheduled soon
Gary Carrington –  no longer undergoing treatment for his cancer in multiple organs
Hank and Susan Quigg – pray for their recovery from house fire and their rebuild over the next six to eight months; pray for connection with the right contractor
Halle Deaton (25 yr old former member from Krum)   – diagnosed with breast cancer; finished chemo treatment – undergoing surgery in January; treatment as worked very well so far
Donna Nuckels (Don's sister-in-law) – auto-immune disorder caused by Covid vaccine; no cure, but symptoms being controlled; doing better
Those in assisted living/nursing homes:  Barbara Nofziger, Carolyn Gillespie, Mary Alice Benton

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