Among our Joys:
· Grampa Bill & Gramma Gail For Everyone has started their Toy Drive this year. They serviced 1920 children and 560 families in 2023. This year, their goal is 3000 children, and currently, for the first two days they were open, they served 290 families and roughly 520 children. When each family comes through this event, they are offered a bag of clothes, two toys, two books, and two stuffed animals per child in each household.
Advent is in the making among us: you're invited to participate in helping decorate a nativity figure which will be part of the Nativity scene we'll put out in the yard on 6th and Orchard to share with the community. See Susan over there to get started with some paints or a variety of other fun creative instruments!
We continue to pray for those physically recovering:
Norma Carolyn
Joseph Mills
Dan Ledbetter
Laura Cohthril
Danny Jablonski
Charlene Housman
Francis Barnes
For friends of our community undergoing health challenges, Nancy, Loralie, Margo, Teresa, Cheryl and Ron
Martha Redford's nephew, Steve
We lift up our homebound friends:
Harry and Margaret Lobberegt
Dorothy Beeles
Anastasia Cox and her daughter, Lela Cox
Helen Bosley
Jane Nelson
Marylu Mills as she receives hospice care
Among our local and global community:
We pray for all of God's children who find themselves vulnerable in the elements of these winter months.
We pray for peace throughout the world. For an end to violence in all its forms, including those perpetuated in the guise of national interest. We pray for Palestine and Gaza, for those intwined in war in Lebanon, Sudan, Yemen, for Ukraine, Russia, for those in conflict fighting for justice in Bangladesh, for Afghanistan, Somalia, and in many more places around the world.
We pray for the village on 6th and Orchard, and for those who find themselves without shelter.
We pray for our Global Ministry partners, this week, in Honduras.
If you'd like to share a prayer joy or concern, please contact Pastor Doug at doug@fcctacoma.org or by calling the church office. Please indicate whether your prayer is to be shared publicly, or if you'd like it to be kept private.
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