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| Our hearts and minds and prayers are with those who are in harm's way... |
| God of Love and Compassion, We have come to ask for your protection for those who are being sent to faraway places to prepare for our defense. Before this season of unrest, we had grown comfortable with thinking of them only as they relate to us � as our parents and spouses, our sons and daughters, our neighbors and friends. We look forward to a day when no community will ever be asked to release its loved ones for purposes of war. But today, Lord, history and circumstances force us to release them into your care and into our country's service. We pray for their safe return; and not only for theirs, but for the safe return of others who are being sent from communities, so much like ours, in other parts of the world. As they face the myriad challenges and decisions that each day is destined to bring, may they be anchored by their faith, protected by your presence, and comforted by the knowledge that they are loved by you and by this community. We bless them in your name, and look forward to their safe return, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Safiyah Fosua January 31, 2003 � 2003 Safiyah Fosua, The United Methodist General Board of Discipleship, PO Box 340003, Nashville TN 37203-0003; telephone: 877-899-2780, ext 7084; e-mail [email protected]; website http://www.umcworship.org. Used with permission. |
| Please keep my nephew, Air Force Captain Patrick Farrell, in your prayers. He is "over there--someplace in the desert." Pat is the one who flew his jet over Huntington last summer to say "hello" to his family and shook all our windows. He's a great kid, and when his mother, my sister-in-law Charlene, told him people here were praying for him, he said that was the best thing we could do for him. Submitted by Anita Farrell. -- HOME Norm and Joe. Both are somewhere between here and a dangerous place. Both have children. Submitted by Steve Shideler. Keith Kirby is part of the Guard unit of WV that leaves Saturday the 22nd for Kuwait. He leaves four children and his wife. The 2 younger children go to Meadows Elementary with Owen, and he also is the new president of our Little League (East Huntington Youth League). He already know what his job will be. Transporting POWs. Submitted by Christy Spurlock. Jean Simmons works with a lady named Kathy Halley, whose son Jason is in the Navy stationed on the U.S.S. Roosevelt, one of the aircraft carriers somewhere in the Middle East. Please pray for Jason and for his mother as she copes with her son's deployment. Submitted by Jean Simmons Second LT Shane Childers, born near West Hamlin, was a Marine in the 1st Marine Division based in Camp Pendleton in California. He was killed on Friday in fighting in southern Iraq. He was the nephew of the secretary of our department. Please pray for his family. Submitted by Kim Matthews. Eric Cook, who was a member of our church, has been deployed to Kosova. Care packages, cards, notes would be appreciated. His address is SOCCE950; Task Force Falcon; Camp Bonsteel; APO AE 09340. Chuck and Phyllis' son David has been deployed. -- HOME |
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