2022 Annual Report
Chapel Prayer Chain Report 20-21 Season
Prayer requests come in all year long, but most come from November through April while services continue and people actively visit the website. Our guestbook has been put away since the Covid pandemic gripped us last March, representing a full year of prayer requests not written as usual during the season. Another effect of the pandemic is there were no prayer requests from international visitors, except our dear friends Dorothea and Ditmar.
Since late October through mid March, we have had 28 separate email posts asking for prayer. Many of these contained 2 or more requests. Every request engenders many many reponses from our 35 or so active pray-ers. That's about 50 needs over 20 weeks and hundreds of reponses!
Of course, the real center of our prayer chain isn't our effort, but God's active participation and love for our lives. For every prayer need we receive there are many more unnamed in our hearts, and God knows every one. One gift of our prayer chain is the reminder to pray ... to trust God with the intimate concerns of our lives and those we love. My refrigerator has the list of first names for those asking prayer. A few have been there for a long time. I will list just a few here, and I believe just the name will spark a remembrance of a prayerful moment for many of you.
For healing from Covid, for Aaron and many others. for Lily, Erin, Alan, Jenny, Tom, Queenie, Susie, Andrea, Greg, Fred and Chris.
There are many many others on our hearts too. Remember God's absolute unconditional love for every moment of our lives, not dependent on our ability to love well or enough. This is the power, that God hears better than we speak. Every answer to a prayer comes with the guarantee of God's gentle presence, and peace, whether the physical concern is healed or we are strengthened to endure it. Thank you pray-ers, your loving care fills God's heart to overflowing then back to yours and back again. That's the real miracle.
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Romans 12:12
Respectfully submitted, Pat Boris
Since late October through mid March, we have had 28 separate email posts asking for prayer. Many of these contained 2 or more requests. Every request engenders many many reponses from our 35 or so active pray-ers. That's about 50 needs over 20 weeks and hundreds of reponses!
Of course, the real center of our prayer chain isn't our effort, but God's active participation and love for our lives. For every prayer need we receive there are many more unnamed in our hearts, and God knows every one. One gift of our prayer chain is the reminder to pray ... to trust God with the intimate concerns of our lives and those we love. My refrigerator has the list of first names for those asking prayer. A few have been there for a long time. I will list just a few here, and I believe just the name will spark a remembrance of a prayerful moment for many of you.
For healing from Covid, for Aaron and many others. for Lily, Erin, Alan, Jenny, Tom, Queenie, Susie, Andrea, Greg, Fred and Chris.
There are many many others on our hearts too. Remember God's absolute unconditional love for every moment of our lives, not dependent on our ability to love well or enough. This is the power, that God hears better than we speak. Every answer to a prayer comes with the guarantee of God's gentle presence, and peace, whether the physical concern is healed or we are strengthened to endure it. Thank you pray-ers, your loving care fills God's heart to overflowing then back to yours and back again. That's the real miracle.
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Romans 12:12
Respectfully submitted, Pat Boris