Please remember to pray for each of our corps in the division as well as our officers, who are busy with the seasonal appeal and activities.
"Take time to be aware that in the very midst of our busy preparations for the celebration of Christ’s birth in ancient Bethlehem, Christ is reborn in the Bethlehem's of our homes and daily lives. Take time, slow down, be still, be awake to the Divine Mystery that looks so common and so ordinary yet is wondrously present.
"An old abbot was fond of saying, ‘The devil is always the most active on the highest feast days.’
"The supreme trick of Old Scratch is to have us so busy decorating, preparing food, practicing music and cleaning in preparation for the feast of Christmas that we actually miss the coming of Christ. Hurt feelings, anger, impatience, injured egos—the list of clouds that busyness creates to blind us to the birth can be long, but it is familiar to us all."
Edward Hays, A Pilgrim’s Almanac
May we not be too busy to take time to enjoy the beauty of this Advent and Christmas season.
May that be our prayer today!
God bless!
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CALL TO PRAYER!
The Salvation Army Call to Prayer for December 8, 2011
During this Holiday Season, seek to know and share the Christmas Joy with every one your meet! Remember to pray for all those who will be standing kettles, packing boxes of food, sorting toys, and preparing Christmas Dinners for the needy and shut-ins. May God bless and touch those who are giving to help the needy. “What is the reason for the Season?” It is Jesus!
My Dream for The Salvation Army; Vision 26, Global Compassion …”That our compassion would be large enough to be understood as authentically global by what we do at home and abroad” Kenneth W. Maynor (From the book, “One Day - a dream for the Salvation Army” by Commissioner James Knaggs and Stephen Court.)
General Linda Bond calls Salvationists to join on Thursday mornings, a world- wide, weekly prayer time, to pray that we would become the people God wants us to be, and to do what He wants us to do. Pray that we shall seek the Holy Spirit, be energized, and equipped for the ministry of the 21st century. More information on this International Vision: One Army, One Mission, One Message, may be found at (http://sar.my/one) .
1.Pray for The ARC men and women who are participating this month of December in the 24/7 prayer crusade, “Stay on the Wall..to Set the Captives Free” emphasis for Social Justice. Put Religious Freedom on your Christmas List!
2.Pray for our military men and women wherever deployed, and for a safe withdrawal from Iraq by December 31. Pray for our military families who are reuniting as the deployed return home from Iraq. Pray for the families of those who will never come home.
3.Pray for our International, National and Western Territorial leaders: General Linda Bond, and our International and National Leaders, and for our Western Territorial leaders, Commissioners James and Carolyn Knaggs, Colonels David and Sharron Hudson, Lt Colonels Douglas and Diane O’Brien, Lt. Colonel Judy Smith, Lt. Colonels Vic and Joan Doughty, the THQ Staff, Divisional Leaders, ARC Officers, and your Corps Officers!
4.Pray for: Mike’s dad, Raymond Frost, leukemia; for Brandon Brackenbury, complete healing; Captain Maria Espinoza, healing from surgery, for Major Clem Leslie, recovering from a stroke; for Major Martha Davey, healing from surgery; Jayne McAllister, mother of Captain Lawry Smith, complications following recent surgery; Jenifer Wilson asks for prayer for her father in need of a liver transplant.
5.Pray for healing for: Major Clem Leslie, recovering from a stroke; Major Debbie Hood,recently in the hospital with chest pains; for Major Mary Dickinson recovering from surgery; for Larry Dayton; for Floyd Seibling; for John Watson, son of retired officers Majors Art and Eugenia Watson, in ICU in Wenatchee: Pray for Captain Barbara Wehnau; for Major Jonathan Apuan’s son, Brandon, medical testing; Major Jean Anderson in hospital; for Major Jeff Dennis; for Margaret’s daughter. Esther; For Captain Martin Cooper, medical difficulties, and his wife Nancy caring for her mother; Advisory Board member, Linda Talbert, for Major Cindy Dickinson; for Jim Spencer, brother-law to Major Judy Nottle, cardiac problems; Susan Riley’s mother, Connie; Susana Gutierrez, in hospital; healing for: Major Chris Morrow; Lieutenant Natalia Zuniga; Major Tom Morrow’s brother, James, in assisted living care; Bonnie, a stroke; for Jaycie Slocum, MRSA Staph infection; for Susan Spencer; Peter Daab, in care facility; Dorothy Nelson, in hospital; Major Elvia Roman; Major Deanna Sholin’s mother, Mrs. Gail Wiggins; Jim Horgen, Salem, Ore.
6.Pray for;Captain Mark and Vicki Gilden’s, new-born son Grant Lambert Bittinger, in hospital with small hole in his lung; for Esther’s granddaughter Aaliyah; for Patty; Laura’s son, Chad, liver transplant rejection; for James Shull; for Sheryl Callahan’s mother; Gail V. for heart problems; David Robinson; healing for Kristy and her family; for Giovani Roger’s healing, Sheryl G, Terashita, father of Captain Stacey Cross; for Teddy McVicker, suffering from Wiscott-Aldridge disease; Betty Crowder, kidney problems.
7.Pray for Shawn Meadows, Medford Corps, in need of a second heart transplant; for Brittany’s sister, open heart surgery; for Amy Henessey knee surgery; for the Spencers; for Stephen Yalden: for Elona and Ricardo Manzano; for Hazel Morgan, needing God’s healing touch! Pray for P. Michael Bailey, that God would bless his ministry in El Salvador
8.Pray for Retired Officers: Major Elibeth Delgado, in hospital;Major Juanita Clevitt, home after total knee replacemtn; Major Pearl Reid; for Major Ben LaBarge, lymphoma; Major Albert Steinhauer, pneumonia; Major Verna Hughes; for Major Eric Sholin; Captain Sylvia Waldron; Major Kay Stoops; Lt. Colonel David Allen; Major Bob Anderson; for A/Captain Sonin Davis; Commissioner Orval Taylor; Major Rusty Tomlinson.
9.Pray for healing for those being treated for cancer: Pauline, sister of Captain David Allen has had one of her lungs and a vocal cord removed due to cancer. Doctors feel they got all the cancer, but she needs prayer for her and her three children. The father passed away 2 years ago. Pray for them! ; Karen Beaver, daughter in law of Majors Richard and Martha Beaver; Lynn Rinehart, wife of Dr John Rinehart,for Marian Hammitt of Sacramento, chemo treatment; Raymond Frost, Leukemia;; Major Fred Rasmussen, Major Bill Mulch, progress in his care; Major Lola Bacon, chemotherapy;Tonie, Cancer; for Sally Landsburg; for Nigel Thomas, London, Pray for his sister, Abigail Rolf, of Phoenix, and brother in law, Major Darren Norton; for Rev. William Huston, pancreatic cancer; 3 year old Terel, battling cancer; for Sally L. peritoneal cancer; for Carol’s brother, bladder surgery; for Sally, intestinal cancer; Carlos H. cancer; for Howard M. esophageal cancer; Ricky, prostate cancer; Major Ronda Gilger’s sister, Diane, Lymphoma; Valerie Perry, Chemo treatment; for Michelle stage 2 breast cancer; for Dennis B. pancreatic cancer; for Pat Park of Eugene Corps; for Major Susan Severs’ sister, Jane, for salvation and healing; for Sandra’s father, colon cancer; Marie; for “Gigi’s mother, pancreatic cancer”; for William, Age 8; for Joyce S.; Joshua D.; for Stu Gabel, Dan Cook, Paula Collins; for Captain Dianne Jiminez’s father; for Diane Hermosillo; Captains Eric and Janet Wilkerson, chemotherapy.
10.Pray for the families of those who have recently been Promoted to Glory: Lois Feist, Major Marcia Marcia Baker, Major Larry Feist and nine siblings: the family of Envoy Corrine Erickson of Cordova Outpost, Alaska who was Promoted to Glory on December 3;Major Barbara Blix, whose brother, H.R. “Dick” Oberg, a former officer, was Promoted to Glory on November 27th; for the family of West Kenyon who lost his father this past week; ;for Major David Hathorn of Marian Ohio, brother of Major Bill Hathorn; and for those who minister to the bereaved during this Christmas Season and throughout the year.
Mervyn L. Morelock,
Lt. Colonel, Territorial Prayer Coordinator
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