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Most powerful, loving, and high God,
We lay our hearts at your throne.
In this new year we ask for you to forgive our past and lighten our future.
Teach us the wonder and joy of new opportunities to serve you and your people. Gather us together and bless us with clear eyes and open hearts that we are prepared to be sent out to tell the good news of your love for all people. Teach us to open our arms in welcome to the poor, the broken, the immigrant and the estranged, that they may know your love in our gentleness, acceptance, unconditional love, and our dedication to your ways.
Bless the members and friends of Missouri Union Presbytery with faithful and generous hearts. Show each one how you are calling them to ministry in and for your church. Make this an extraordinary year. Fill our pulpits with those who can speak your word clearly, love the church deeply and walk with us in gentleness and truth. Show us your abundance again and help us find new ways to respond to that love and abundance in greater measure.
Amen
Barbara Chalfant
Transitional General Presbyter and Stated Clerk
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