Monday morning, June 23,  our teenagers will head to John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, for a week of camp.  Camp always provides a great opportunity for teenagers to get away from their everyday lives and routine to concentrate on their relationship with the Lord.  Let’s use all of the elements of these passages of Scripture as the basis for our prayers:
“We ask God to give you complete knowledge of his will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding.  Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better.  We also pray that you will be strengthened with all his glorious power so you will have all the endurance and patience you need. May you be filled with joy,  always thanking the Father. He has enabled you to share in the inheritance that belongs to his people, who live in the light.”   – Colossians 1:9-12  (NLT)
 
“As for other matters, brothers and sisters, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more.”   – 1 Thessalonians 4:1  (NIV)
 
“Now about your love for one another we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other.  And in fact, you do love all of God’s family throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more...”   -- 1 Thessalonians 4:9-10  (NIV)
 
“We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing.”  – 2 Thessalonians 1:3  (NIV)


WEEKLY PRAYER UPDATE –  June 18, 2025

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

Church:
Youth and Mission Kids/GA camps
VBS -- enlistment of youth crew leaders and those who will help decorate
This week’s worship service and Bible studies
Staff search for permanent worship leader
New BodyBuilder on Sunday mornings for young adults

Personal Needs:
Spiritual awakening in our community, in our nation
Salvation -- Those on your "Who's Your One?" list
Chris Blanchett – open heart surgery on June 24; pray for his energy, strength
Gary Carrington -- diagnosed with terminal cancer, present in several different organs in the body; underwent biopsy this week – awaiting results
Grief:  Jesse Woolery & family – death of his father, Keith
Tommy Bean – recovering at home following stroke on Memorial Day
Shelly Pope –  beginning a trial treatment for stage 4 liver cancer
Amanda Marquis Campbell (daughter of Bill & June Marquis) –  progressing well at home after having kidney transplant on May 22
Justin McClain (Ponder resident) & wife, Maranda & 2 daughters –  growing discouraged in battle with lung cancer; treatment is causing increasingly worse side effects
Jesse Woolery's cousin, Andy -- suffering from severe mental illness in Kansas
Kerr Broadstreet (Kim’s brother) –  doing well as he continues treatment for kidney cancer & in shoulders                          
Those in assisted living/nursing homes:  Carolyn Gillespie (now in memory care),  Jack Williams      

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