Prayer for Today, Saturday, August 20

Dear Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer,

We bring our prayers to You today. May our hearts be filled with hope, joy, and compassion. We think about those affected by the deadly famine in Somalia. So often the plight of others rarely touches our hearts. We, in the west, often take an “out of sight, out of mind” approach to human tragedy distant from us. Forgive us, we pray. We know the true heart of the Christian is revealed in our treatment of those in need. May we find ways to respond. In Jesus’ name we pray. AMEN.
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Kim Keithly Jones died yesterday. Please offer prayers for her family and large circle of friends.

Dortha Immel fell in her home Thursday evening and broke her leg. She had major surgery yesterday morning at Bass hospital. Please pray for Dortha. She will be in Bass for a few days and will likely go to Greenbriar for rehab.

Tim Simpson has been released from the hospital. Ruby Register, Austin Wade, Gene Mason, Margaret Lambke and Ron Maphet are still at St. Mary’s. Please pray for all our hospitalized.

Tomorrow we are commissioning all our Deacons, Board Members and Board Officers during the 10:15 a.m. sanctuary service. All current Board Members are encouraged to attend.

If you would like to help with famine relief in Somalia, bring a check to church and note in the memo line “Week of Compassion-Somalia”. We will promptly send those funds.

The scripture for today is Galatians 3:15-18:
Brothers and sisters, I give an example from daily life: once a person’s will has been ratified, no one adds to it or annuls it. Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring; it does not say, “And to offsprings,” as of many; but it says, “And to your offspring,” that is, to one person, who is Christ. My point is this: the law, which came four hundred thirty years later, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise. For if the inheritance comes from the law, it no longer comes from the promise; but God granted it to Abraham through the promise.

Grace and peace,

John McLemore