A New Approach

Yes...forgive me.  Another year full of transitions and adjustments and in the past few days, I've felt a new approach was needed in helping us on focus on prayerfully supporting our church leaders.

Previous prayers have focused on an area of life, and while there's nothing wrong with that, but I felt it became too rote and routine...almost too quickly.

So, as I work through my own perseverance of posting daily prayers, each daily prayer will focus on a particular church position(s) to lift up in prayer, rather than a particular life aspect for the entire leadership.  I'm hoping this will allow a more fluid "prompting of the Spirit", in terms of what position might need a certain avenue of prayer.

With that said, here's what I will endeavor to present.

Mondays: Senior/Lead Pastors
Tuesdays: Associate Pastors
Wednesdays: College/Youth/Children Pastors
Thursdays: Church Support Staff/Administrators
Fridays: Missionaries
Saturdays: Congregations & The Community
Sundays: Church Efficiency and Effectiveness

The new schedule represents to a degree where support is needed. Sunday is a work day and most Pastors have/take Monday as their "Sabbath", so that will be the day we pray they are refreshed and renewed for the coming week. Youth Pastors have their hands full on Wednesdays w/ teens, typically along w/ other mid-week family services. Saturdays, pray that congregations would be prepared for the word they will hear as they come together and invite those around them...'are you doing anything Sunday morning?"  And for such conversations, that Sunday will be a day that the prayers and efforts of the church will come together, that believers and non-believers alike will come to know Christ in a greater dimension.

Thanks again for all your prayers and support. I was reminded yet again this evening, how blessed our church is for the incredible stable position we are in, and how balanced our leadership team moves forward and how more churches and communities desperately need such a community where these traits are becoming harder to find.

May God Bless Pastors, Their Families and Churches & God Bless America

-PNC

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