Pray Without Ceasing...
for those friends and members of BPC, and in our community who are struggling with physical and mental health challenges. May they and their loved ones feel comforted and supported.
for those affected by the recent tornadoes, wildfires, and dust storms across the country. As they recover from devastating losses, we pray for outpourings of support to meet both immediate and ongoing needs.
for our ministry partners with populations particularly vulnerable at this time, to include Literacy NRV, Blacksburg Refugee Partnership, He She Ze & We, Women’s Resource Center, and Blacksburg Community Pride.
as losses from climate change accelerate all over the world. Give us courage, hope, imagination, motivation and insight to address climate warming. We pray for those who are most affected. Give us urgency and international unity of purpose and will in combating and mitigating climate trends. Help us love and protect our Creator's world.
for our local and global community to support each other as we learn to be more aware of and seek to oppose racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, bigotry, oppression and violence.
for our country. We pray that we find a just and peaceful way out of polarization and toward a better cultural appreciation of the complexity and plurality of a healthy democracy.
for so many people throughout the world who live in areas of violent conflict. We are especially aware of those suffering in Palestine, Israel, Ukraine, Yemen, and Sudan. Guide the leaders to seek peaceful resolutions. Be with women and children who bear the biggest burdens, and church leaders who speak out against violence and for security and an end to fighting.
for Dessa and Cobbie Palm, our mission partners in the Philippines, and their continued work with youth in the community through Youth Advocates Through Theater Arts (YATTA), clean water access, and sustainability of local resources.
for our partners and friends in CEDEPCA in Guatemala.
for our friends in Mulanje, Malawi, working to meet ongoing health, educational and food-producing needs.
for Allen Bame, Charles and Mary Frances Taylor, the Henika family, Randy and Sherry Ingham, the Peeples family, Steve and Marcia Andrews, Stan and Janne Mathes, Renee Lahn, Nancy Alexander, and Wilmoth O’Dell.
for those in the military: Luke Phillips, Eden Elizabeth Lawson, and Joel Hunter.
You can send prayer requests for Prayers of the People in Sunday worship and/or to be added to the website prayer list to Rhonda (rhonda@blacksburgpres.org).