Today we gather for prayer at 9:00 a.m.; enjoy a time of fellowship at 10:00 am; and worship together at 10:30 am.

Tuesday our Senior Servants gather for worship and teaching at 10:00 am.

Wednesday children's ministry and adult Christian education classes continue at 6:30 pm.

Thursday our ladies will gather for Bible Study at 9:30 am.

We are beginning to print a couple dozen half-sheet, paper bulletins that will be placed on the Welcome Center Desk in the Narthex.

“Wives and Mothers”

*Adapted from https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/ten-ways-to-pray-for-your-wife

1. God, be her God — her all-satisfying treasure and all. Make her jealous for your exclusive supremacy over all her affections (Psalm 73:24–25).

2. Increase her faith — give her a rock-solid confidence that your incomparable power is only always wielded for her absolute good in Christ (Romans 8:28–30).

3. Intensify her joy — a joy in you that abandons all to the riches of your grace in Jesus and that says firmly, clearly, gladly: “I’ll go anywhere and do anything if you are there” (Exodus 33:14–15).

4. Soften her heart — rescue her from cynicism and make her tender to your presence in the most complicated details of dirty diapers and a multitude of other needs you’ve called her to meet (Hebrews 1:3).

5. Make her cherish your church — build relationships into her life that challenge and encourage her to walk in step with the truth of the gospel, and cause her to love corporate gatherings, the Lord’s Table, and the everyday life of the body (Mark 3:35).

6. Give her wisdom — make her see dimensions of reality that I would overlook and accompany her vision with a gentle, quiet spirit that feels safe and celebrated (1 Peter 3:4).

7. Sustain her health — continue to speak your gift of health and keep us from presumption; it is by blood-bought grace (Psalm 139:14).

8. Multiply her influence — encourage and deepen the impact she has on our children. Give her sweet glimpses of it. Pour her out in love for our neighbors and spark creative ways to engage them for Jesus’s sake (John 12:24).

9. Make her hear your voice — to read the Bible and accept it as it really is, your word — your very word to her where she lives, full of grace and power and everything she needs pertaining to life and godliness (2 Peter 1:3).

10. Overcome her with Jesus — that she is united to him, that she is a new creature in him, that she is your daughter in him — no longer in Adam and dead in sin; now in Christ and alive to you, forever (Romans 6:11).

And then a thousand other things. Amen.

Our Senior Servants are meeting this week on Tuesday at 10:00 am. We will once again enjoy a time of worship and we will study Colossians 2. Hope to see all of you seniors there!

Ladies Bible Study meets this week on Thursday at 9:30 am.

Our children’s handbell choir, grades 4 - 7th (for those that have participated in our children’s handchime classes) will be meeting during the church service starting on Sunday, October 4 through December, at 10:30 am. We will meet in the missions room on the upper level where we will be practicing for our part in the Christmas special. Please let Kathy Wass or Traci Wass know as soon as possible as we prepare assignments.

The adult handbell choir will start our Monday practices at 6:45 pm on October 5-December.

Is your garage filling up with pop cans? Don’t want to wait in endless lines when you can finally return those cans? Let us worry about storing and returning your cans and we will use the bottle deposit returns for Pastor Chris’ trip to Sri Lanka.

If you would be interested in donating your cans, please contact Pastor Jonathan and he will arrange a time with you to bring your cans to the church building.