Prayers Needed

Every day, a small---but growing---band of people from all over the world click on this web site and I am grateful for that.

I would appreciate it if you would take a few moments to pray about the following things...

Please continue to pray for the people of Florida, Alabama, Haiti, Cuba, the Bahamas, and everywhere that has been hit by hurricanes this season. Once catclysmic events like this leave the headlines, we tend to forget about them. But these folks are still trying to rebuild their lives while mourning their dead and grieving other losses. Please pray that God will encourage them.

Please pray that justice and peace will come to the people of Sudan, scene of what the entire world community is calling genocide, rightly so.

Please pray that peace will come to Afghanistan and Iraq.

Please ask God to guide the American people as we select who will be our President over the next four years.

Pray that God will guide Australian Prime Minister John Howard as he prepares to reshuffle his government following his huge victory on Sunday.

At a personal level, I ask you to grant that God will continue to bless the congregation I'm privileged to pastor, Friendship Lutheran Church, with growth in faith, love, unity, outreach, prayer, discipleship, worship of God, and in the numbers of people we reach with the Good News of Jesus Christ.

Also: Please pray that God will guide me in the writing of an essay I've been writing for this site. Tentatively titled, The Hunger, I've been sort of struggling with it. Pray that God will give me the words.

Thanks for reading and thanks for praying!