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 Requests for Prayer

  • Kimberly Idrees, POBLO - Texas Missionary beginning "Women of the Way" aimed at Muslim and other Ethnic women and their families with the Gospel of Jesus Christ
  • Rev.Ken Mitschke and Word of Life Lutheran Church, Schertz as they continue to reach out to their community with the Gospel.
  • Rev. Delton Weiser, Mission Planter/Pastor, Point of Grace, Pflugerville as he recovers from a rattlesnake bite
  • Raquel Fehr, Director of Campus Ministry, University of Texas at Arlington

 

  • the 160 pastors, commissioned ministers and lay people from 54 congregatons who partcipated in the M2C Mission Partners' Retreat, May 6-8 and who are praying, pondering and planning for their involvement in planting one or more new missions.
  • Rev. Evelio Cruz who was ordained and installed as Hispanic Missionary at Large for the Austin area on May 18th at Redeemer, Austin and for his wife Ruby who became a U.S. Citizen on May 23rd
  • Rev. Karim Baidaoui and Kimberly Idrees as they work to plant Church of All Nations, Plano and for mission partners at Lord of Life, Plano (Rev. John Lindner, pastor) who host and support this mission to Muslims.
  • Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Carrollton as they are in the preparation stage for planting house churches as multi-sites of Prince of Peace (Rev. Luke Biggs, pastor and Terry Zuehsow, leading the planting effort)

 

  • for Chris Holder, Urban Missionary for Youth at New Hope, Dallas (LINC North Texas) and for his wife Heather as they make preparations to adopt their foster daughter
  • for Leticia Price, Cristo Rompio Las Cadenas, Ft. Worth (LINC North Texas) as she completes her application process to serve her Deaconess Internship there
  • for Deacon Charles Cooper, Missionary and Licensed Lay Deacon at New Hope, Dallas (LINC North Texas) as he continues to lead the growth of that congregation
  • for Chris Attah, Evangelist to Africans (LINC Houston)
  • for Rev. Vijay Gurrala leading Telegu Indian Ministry (LINC Houston)
  • for Rev. Charles Wokoma, Director of LINC Bible Institute (LINC Houston)

 

  • for Pastor Mekru Bekele and for Emmanuel Ethiopian Lutheran Church, Dallas.  Pastor Mekru was ordained and Emmanuel was chartered as a congregation of the Texas District, LC-MS on March 2.  Pray for the growth and health of this congregation, worshiping in the Amharic language.

  • for the call committee of University Lutheran Church, the campus congregation of UT, Austin as they prepare to issue a call for a new campus pastor.

  • for Rev. Steve Morfitt and El Calvario Lutheran Church, Brownsville that they might find new ways to share the Gospel with the Hispanic community there and that God would bless Steve as he leads the development of our Hispanic Training Center there.

  • for Rev. Larry Lieder and the mission of Holy Three-in-One Lutheran Church, Houston as they reach out to the deaf community with the Gospel there.

  • for the call process for two new Mission and Ministry Facilitators in Area A and C of the Texas District.  The call committee has been appointed and begins reviewing the nominees the week of March 9.

 

  • for Crown of Life, Colleyville and Mission Planter Jeff Pool as they continue pratice worship and organization of their launch team for the anticipated multi-site mission, Crown of Life, Keller-Southlake.
  • for leaders of LINC Houston, Rev. Mark Junkans and Rev. David Kim as they provide leadership and training for this multi-ethnic mission planting movement.
  • for Living Waters, Richardson and Pastor Jerry Nichols as they seek a full time mission planting pastor to lead this new chartered congregation.
  • for the first Ash Wednesday Spanish service at Redeemer, Austin being led by Vicar Evelio Cruz.
  • for the call process for two new Mission and Ministry Facilitators in Area A and C of the Texas District.

 

  • The new "team" involved in the Mission Start of St. John, Cypress.
  • For the "Houston Vision Task Force" that is exploring ways to reach the city effectively.
  • All of our partners and missions as we celebrate Advent and Christmas.
  • for Rev. George Masih and All Nations Lutheran Church, Pakistani Urdu congregation in Dallas as they work to secure additional financial resources for their ministry and as they have new Pakistani contacts in Irving and Frisco.
  • for Point of Grace, Pflugerville as they do their 1000 Cokes give-away this Saturday as a servant evangelism effort.
  • for Pastor Jim Mueller and Austin City Church as they reach out to the Austin urban community through special worship services and concerts this Advent and Christmas season.
  • for the Coleman Youth Ministry at the skating rink in Coleman, Texas that more teens might be drawn to the manger during this season.
  • thanksgiving for Zion, Abilene's sponsorship of the Coleman Youth Ministry.
  • that Christ, Our Savior Lutheran in San Antonio might find a good way to cover its pastoral needs.

 

  • for solid progress on the first buildings for Point of Grace, Pflugerville and for Rev. Delton Weiser, church planter - that the Advent and Christmas season might open new opportunities to connect people to Jesus.

  • for Oscar Benavides, Urban Mission Developer of LINC North Texas beginning his second full month of leading that mission - for wisdom and insight in seeing where LINC can have the greatest impact in building God's Kingdom.

  • for Rev. Juan Garcia and Rev. Jim Price, St. Mark (San Marcos), Waco as they team together to reach both English and Spanish speaking people of Waco - that men and women who might serve as leaders in the Spanish ministry might be raised up to come along side Pastor Juan so that mission might continue to grow.

 

  • Prayer of thanks for the completion and dedication for the first unit at Water's Edge, Frisco.  Prayers that the use of the facility will enhance the mission's opportunities to connect more people to Jesus.
  • Prayers for the newly appointed  Board of Directors, LINC North Texas, that their decisions and guidance will be Spirit-led
  • Thanksgiving for 30 people in weekly Bible Study and praise at Redeemer Austin through the Hispanic mission outreach of Vicar Evelio Cruz.
  • St. John, Cypress as the formation committee is put in place.
  • New House groups are being established by LINC Houston.
  • Individual congregations that are thinking about mission opportunities in their communities.
  • The process of calling a new MMF for Area C.
  • Pray for the youth who are encountering their Savior through the Coleman Youth Mission.

 

  • For the work of Rev. Wichieng Wetnyangran, Pastor of African Immigrant Ministry at Peace, Hurst as he plants a worshiping community of African immigrants to the Tarrant County area that his ministry would reach many new people with the Gospel of Jesus.

  • For Living Water Lutheran Church, a new mission congregation in Richardson as they move their worship site to a new public elementary school in their area, that there new location will allow them to reach many new non-Christians and de-churched people in Richardson.

  • For Water's Edge, Frisco that the dedication of their first sanctuary and classroom building might be a real blessing as they already reach nearly 400 people each weekend.

  • For St. John, Cypress as they continue to the next step of securing a team to move towards a late '08 launch.

  • For LINC Houston as it continues in the process of transitioning the facilities at Beautiful Savior, Houston into a “Center for Urban Ministry.”

 

  • For the Coastal Bend Mission group--looking at some kind of new mission endeavor in Beeville, Kenedy & George West

  • For a potential mission in Northwest Lubbock--just at the dreaming stage right now, gathering information

  • For discussions about a potential mission in San Angelo

  • For a potential mission in Mission--demographic information to be shared on September 6.

  • For a potential mission in Northeast San Antonio area - Rev. Henry Biar is working with this start.

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