Welcome to the Good Shepherd's Lenten Prayer Blog

Pray for His known patient presence in our lives and those we lack awareness of need. We pray with grace that you join in prayer for all facing challenges whether current financial upheaval, other unmet need, healing, or damaged hope.

Together OPPORTUNITY for Healing and Hope in the midst of God's help will join in a joyful relationship journey with Christ Jesus.

Please feel welcome to add your prayers to our ongoing list of those and that which we pray for.

Submit Prayer Requests- Pray Your Needs

Accomplish a RADICAL WELCOME--Pray and submit prayer request for those with needs.

Provided you are unable to join our Sunday prayer times, please encourage a vigil at your church. Publicize the OPPORTUNITY dates and times (they will be posted on this blog)


Saturday, April 3, 2010

Offering requested prayer

Offering requested prayer

Offering requested prayer

Offering requested prayer


Resurrection power in this wonderful place that we may be blessed to be a blessing into the community and the world!

Offering requested prayer

Offering requested prayer


Healing from the continued pain of tragic loss. Ability to find peace. Forgiveness toward individuals who have abandoned us and betrayed us.

Offering requested prayer

Offering requested prayer


Lord Jesus, thank you for loving us. Please help “Elizabeth” and Peter. Bless the homeless man taken to the hospital. Help me remember to keep you at the center of all I am. AMEN.

Offering requested prayer


Dear God and Jesus: Thank you for my family for people with disease and for Poppy. Also for Easter and Holy Week.

Offering requested prayer

Offering requested prayer


Thank you God for bringing Lucy to church – now call Joe and Julie back
Thank you for showing me Grace, may grace reign throughout the remainder of my life
Thank you for a safe place for a second grader

Offering requested prayer


Thank You, Lord for Your Being in our midst during this vestry retreat and prayer vigil.
Be with Tom, Shelly, Greg, Mike, Julie, Jan, Jim, Kelly, Patrick, Roger, Nancy, Matt & their families as they return enthused with the Love of Your Son Jesus to share with the Good Shepherd community and into the world.  Thank You – Amen.

Offering requested prayer

Offering requested prayer

Offering requested prayer

Offering requested prayer


We thank You Lord for Chuck Bristol and this prayer vigil as we enter Lent and ask for Your Presence in the lives of our congregation – be with our ministers, vestry on this weekend retreat that they might guide us in outreaching to our community & the world. – Amen.

Offering requested prayer

Offering requested prayer


For our church – Tom, Shelly, Greg, our senior warden & vestry – Mike, Julie, Jan, Jim, Kelly, Patrick, Matt, Roger & Nancy – GOD BLESS THEM and be in them Lord and with them and in congregation – Your Presence in our midst as a family to do Your Will.  AMEN.

Offering requested prayer

Offering requested prayer

Offering requested prayer

Offering requested prayer

Offering requested prayer

Offering requested prayer


Worley house, relationships.
Help me to love and serve You with my whole heart, mind & soul, and to trust that You are in control.
Thank you!

Offering requested prayer

Offering requested prayer

Offering requested prayer

Offering requested prayer

Offering requested prayer

Dear Lord, provide a healing comfort to June so that she might experience the Love and Grace-filled promises to combat isolation and experience Abundance and relationship connections.

Thank  you Lord, for the life of Robert Cochrane – Bishop of Olympia who helped give life to Good Shepherd as a Diocesan mission and gave us Bob Rhodes – God Bless him as he clings to life one of your very faithful servants – thank you – Amen.

Offering requested prayer

Offering requested prayer


Lord Jesus:  Joe needs so much to know You and experience a relationship to assure he is not alone. Speak to him, guide him, lead him, teach him Love and let him experience Grace sufficient to love himself.

Offering requested prayer


Dear God:
Please help the children in Uganda. They’re helpless and already have to deal with poverty, disease and hunger. Please bless them and guide them towards beautiful futures.
- Kendra Okereke

offering requested prayer

Offering requested prayer


LORD: Thank you for the life of my brother Alan Ray Miller. Take him to your side – be with Derek & Chris & family and all of my family as we honor him  with peace and love. Thank you Lord for our precious time with him. In Your Son’s Name. Amen. Amen.

Offering requested prayer


Lord, 
You know my thoughts long before I [do]. You have invited me into a relationship by Your Grace. I find myself seeking the healing only You can provide when I act without humility. The healing I ask today is not understanding but rather clearly stated Love for those friends I no longer see.

Offering requested prayer


Lord Christ show Chuck Miller rest in these challenging times for his brother. He needs his own rest for the intense work and gift given to the homeless of Clark County through WHO coordination of Church of the Good Shepherd Overnight Week

Offering requested prayer


Pray for daughter Laurie during her second pregnancy that this baby girl be delivered healthy and both mother and have health and joy

Thank God for employment for Damien father of baby girl-to-be

Offering requested prayer


For Kelly Flood & Yogesh Zito

Healing for Rene

Healing for Michael

For Ken Reid undergoing a stem cell transplant March 22nd 2010

For Beverly Henderson, may she rest in peace

Offering requested prayer

Continued Prayer for Alan Miller -- Heal in such a way that Love and Grace walk always on the paths of those who are sad and have shared Your Presence as gifted to Alan Ray in breath

Manise and Tom Dalbey

Offer requested prayer

LORD CHRIST: comfort with healing, give insight to the heart and love, for Chuck and Doreen 

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Healing


Lisa Rise – healing.

For those who have Passed On

Prayers for Ken Reid


For Ken Reid – undergoing a stem cell transplant March 22nd 2010.

Prayers for Laurie and Damien


Pray for daughter Laurie during her second pregnancy – that this baby girl be delivered healthy and both mother and have health and joy.
Thank God for employment for Damien – father of baby girl-to-be.

Prayers for the Community


Manise and Tom Dalbey
Suzanne – Jan
Maureen - Mike
For Kelly Flood & Yogesh Zito
Healing for Rene
Healing for Michael




Prayer for my mother


For my Mother.

The birth of Sophie Tucker


For Sophie Tucker, born today.

Prayer for Chuck Miller


Lord Christ show Chuck Miller rest in these challenging times for his brother. He needs his own rest for the intense work and gift given to the homeless of Clark County through who said coordination of Church of the Good Shepherd Overnight Week.

Comfort & Healing for Chuck & Doreen Miller


LORD CHRIST: comfort with healing, give insight to the heart and love, for Chuck and Doreen Miller, for Chuck’s brother Alan Ray, his sons Derek and Chris and his family. Alan suffers and battles as you are aware, with your powerful defense and healing the challenging cancer disease. Healing is a mending resolution to the battles and illnesses this life brings. The promise of Your Presence, Guidance, Support and Love is without condition only Grace and Love. Heal in such a way that Love and Grace walk always on the paths of those who are sad and have shared Your Presence as gifted to Alan Ray in breath.

Fear vs. Grace


Breathe a gift to share not Fear ; God’s life start to Grace.

Guidance from Jesus


Lord Jesus guide me to hear, see, speak Love not isolate with assumptions as I observe, share and experience the Creation You made and are well-pleased with me.

Gifts from Christ

Grace-filled gifts that surpass our fears, understandings and daily experiences in this life yet open our hearts  to Love and Experiences offering Hope through faith and fulfilled covenants You the Christ have made.

Healing Patience and Love for Alan Ray Miller

God, we offer prayers today for Healing, Patience and Love for Alan Ray Miller, his sons Derek, Chris and family.

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Practice Tolerance

God help me practice tolerance as accepting my neighbors space not defining my space.