The Economic Situation as it affects our community, region, nation, and world

In Our Community

The spoken and unspoken concerns and joys with our community of faith and our community of living

• Rowena Flory, ImoJean Frantz

•Jeannie Harden, Mary Holloway

•Arlene Kough, Kaiden Schroeder

•Lisa Snell, Charlie Sutton

•Doris Tyler, Vera Whitaker

•Mary Workman

•Brenda French (daughter of Dean & Madonna Reynolds, sister of Brian Reynolds)

•Bruce Clary, Jeff Krehbiel, Michael Law, celebrating their birthdays today

•Good Beginnings Preschool, teachers & students

•McPherson College, faculty, staff, & students

•The Cedars Community, staff & residents

•Our Leadership Team

•Our Transformation Steering Group:

Lela Beam, Florence Crago, Elaine Fleenor, Chris Goering, Liz Krehbiel, Allan van Asselt, Charles Whitacre, Terran Woolley

In Our Region

•Marlo Oltman, District Conference Moderator

•Sonja Griffith, District Executive

•John Elder, Pastor of Garden City CoB

•Whittier Fellowship, a new church plant of the Western Plains District in Denver, CO

•Ministries of the Western Plains District

•Navajo friend at Lybrook Mission receiving chemo treatments

•Those serving from Wichita CoB, our partner congregation in transformation/Renewal

•Lybrook Mission resident directors Randy & Jill Emmelhainz, that they may feel district support

In This Nation

•Tim Harvey, Annual Conference Moderator

•Stan Noffsinger, General Secretary, and all members of the CoB staff

•Our elected officials at all levels of government

•Happy Corner CoB, Clayton, Ohio, church building sustained damage recently when a car was driven through the main entrance

•CoB Mission and Ministry Board weekly prayer request:

This week inevitably stirs conversations about love. As you are making preparations for Valentine’s Day take a moment to reflect on all the people who have lovingly nurtured you. Consider how you might share the story of one of these loved ones with a friend. As you remember these persons ask God to reveal someone who is in need of Christ’s steadfast love.

In This World

•Pray for the four northern states in Nigeria where terrorist-type violence has prompted the government to recently declare a state of emergency. Pray for the Nigerian Brethren, their congregations, pastors, denominational leaders, and CoB mission worker, Carol Smith.

•On-going conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq

•Continuing prayers for our brothers and sisters in North and south Sudan

•Our brothers and sisters in Christ in Brazil, Haiti, Dominican Republic, India, Nigeria, and Sudan

•Palestinians and Israelis experiencing violence; may hearts be opened for a new way