Prayers for our elders as they meet in session

📖“If any of you is lacking in wisdom, ask God, who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and it will be given you.” — James 1:5 (NRSV)

🙏 Father, grant our elders Your wisdom—humble, discerning, and rooted in love—that their leadership would reflect the mind of Christ.

Thanksgiving for new relationships among adult volunteers

📖Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, as indeed you are doing.” — 1 Thessalonians 5:11 (NRSV)

🙏 Lord, thank You for every new friendship formed in service; may these bonds become living signs of Your encouragement and joy among us.

Thanksgiving for those in history who worked to reform God’s people

📖  “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and perfect.” — Romans 12:2 (NRSV)

🙏God of renewal, thank You for those who sought Your truth with courage; teach us to let Your Spirit reform our hearts with the same zeal.

REFORMATION DAY:  Openness to the Spirit’s reforming work today

📖 “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” — 2 Corinthians 3:17 (NRSV)

🙏Holy Spirit, move freely among us; reform what has grown rigid, rekindle what has gone cold, and set us free to live the gospel anew.