1.
Rev. Mitch Maxted
2.
Guiding Board, Admin Team, Ministries Council, Elders, Deacons, Ministries and Committees (including Ad Hoc Restructuring Team)
3. Personnel and Admin Team as they work to fill needed book keeping and youth leadership positions
4. Volunteers who are helping through this transition time
5. Shut-In Servers & Caring Hearts Prayer Group
6. Jackie Switzer and RRCC's reviving Stephen Ministries program; Our newly trained Care Givers -- Jean Bell, Gayle Boles, Darlia Hunt, and Ilene Kiser
7. Our music ministries and their leaders: Randy Preston, Rod Walker, Jimmy Horowitz
8. Enable us to develop a passion for praying and increase our tithes and offerings
9. Our partnership with Shalom Seventh Day Adventist & Manantial de Vida congregations (and their pastors Edy Rosa Paez and Maria Rosario)
10. Our Vision Advisory Committee and our efforts as a congregation to embrace our neighbors with Christ-like love. Strengthening our strategies:
MEMBERS AND FRIENDS
1. Acree, Mary (shingles)
2. Baker, Rev. David (recovery from back surgery)
3. Cratin, Roger (bronchitis)
4. Davis, Marilyn
5. Dimock, Vicki (shoulder surgery tomorrow -- Tara P.'s mother)
6. Graham, Marty (cancer treatments)
7. Guilbeau, Rick & Cynthia; Hubbard, Harold
8. Habtemariam, Solomon and Meaza
9. Johnston, Exey (dementia challenges)
10.
Maxted, Mana (awaiting EEG test results)
11. Maxted, Mitch (awaiting test results)
12. Maybaum, Liz - continued monitoring and doctor consultations
13. Mehlow, Carolyn & Leroy
14.
Plough, Margaret
15. Pollock, Paula
16. Reisen, Beth and newborn daughter Emerson Noelle Reisen (Liz and Paul Maybaum are the proud grandparents. Mom and baby are doing well.)
17. Sanford, Collin
18. Scarborough, Rilda (continued strengthening and increased mobility)
19. Snider, Ed
20. Toomey, Kent (cancer treatments)
21. Whitley, Bea (knee replacement surgery last week; recovering at home)
OTHER
1. Persecuted Christians throughout the world
2. Development of an immigration policy for the U.S. that is fair, just, and responsible
3. The empowerment of national political leaders who will work to bring people together, not divide and erect barriers
4. For all efforts toward universal, affordable access to health care here in the U.S.
5. All who don't know Jesus
6. Our military personnel and families
7. Reaching out to our neighborhood families through the schools: 1. Hopewell gift cards 2. Adopt-a-Child ministry at Union Hill and Hopewell (blessing to all the children and youth who received gifts, and their families) 3. Literacy Partners at Union Hill 4. Breakfast for teachers at Union Hill and Hopewell
8. Our next neighborhood welcoming event will be "Hop into Easter" on April 13.