Please pray for a quick recovery from cataract surgery (Chris had surgery a few weeks back, and has challenges with one of her eyes.) Jeff & Chris Monahan

Thanks and praise that Kris Asperheim has a new engineering job. Pray that she would be able to keep it.

Please pray for my long-time friend Janice in North Dakota. Pray for healing in a long-standing separation and fracture of family relations. Pray for God to repair and reconcile these broken relationships. Pat Monti

Thanks and praise, for a new job in welding for Jim Roberts. Thanks that as one door closed, another opened.

Please bless Jacqui and Sean McGowan, pregnant with a baby boy. Please help me feel better. Shirley Ratliff

Thankful that there has been improvement in scans of Susan’s uterus. Pray for a successful D and C procedure to confirm there are no cancerous cysts. Pray Ron can get into a car easier. Kathy Kohnke

Pray I can talk, and be out of pain soon from throat cancer. Laura Schneider.

Thanks Sandi and Beth can go to present on Dignity 4 Girls in Michigan. Pray for a safe trip, and that they would be able to reach out to Michigan’s LWML group, that Sandi would have peace and a clear mind.

For healing for Colleen Nicolai from left hand surgery Fri. 4/19 on her thumb, to repair nerve damage. One nerve was 80% severed, and has been repaired. Pray for relief from pain, and for her hand to function better.

Thanks to God for my daughter’s progression in healing from 2 broken ankles. Continue to pray God would open up jobs for my son, daughter, and son-in-law. Tina Lawrenz.

Lift up Lisa Seger, who fell Mon. Apr. 15. She broke her wrist, and her ankle and foot are very swollen, and sprained. Pray for a quick recovery. She goes to the doctor April 30 . . . pray she is able to have a soft splint, so she can return to work, and so she isn’t laid off for the rest of the year.

Please pray for me, I’ve been feeling constantly depressed, going through a lot. Some things I don’t want to open up to anyone about, things stuck on my mind. Pray for me to get closer to Jesus and to have him lead me to what is right in life and how to get mentally better. Also pray for Dad’s mental health, and for an older woman to get healthy again and not to keep going to the hospital. It hurts to see her scared every time she goes and is afraid of what she might find out. Pray for her to be able to sleep, and to turn to Jesus. For my boyfriend’s mental health to improve, and for his family to have money to help with medical costs and basic needs for their family. Pray for me not to mess up when I have to go to court and talk to a judge. Anonymous

Thanks for God bringing increased attendance and offerings, with more than 100 people this morning, and good offerings. Pray we would continue to grow in the numbers of people here, and the offerings we receive.

Pray for our family and our children, as we are going to have to put down our cat Hank, due to his worsening stomatitus, preventing him from keeping his tongue in his mouth and eating in a sanitary manner. Seth Jones

Prayer for my mom Carmen to heal from her self, and for God to give me the ability and the strength to take care of her as much as she needs. Prayers also for spiritual, health for my son and grandson. Norma Munoz

For newly elected congregational leaders:  Sandy Mason, Brian Ratliff, Judy Smith, Chris Monahan, Andrew Merrill, John Keen, Mark Kamperman, Seth Jones, and new elder Bob Grese. For Leadership mtg on 4/23.

Pray for Steve Berres and his family in Virginia Beach, leaving this Thurs. for a 3 mo Navy deployment. Pray for his wife Sara parenting alone with their 3 children those 3 months. For God’s will to be done for next 3 year assignment, whether in Europe, Tampa, San Diego, etc. Prayer for healing for Judy Smith from Pneumonia.

Prayer for safety and a good vacation for our daughter Annalise, while vacationing in Poland. Pastor Steve

Pray for Tom Nealon, procedure on Friday 4/19. (Ray Graham resident.) Gloria Hickey

Thanks and praise, Michelle Flannigan had successful surgery at Loyola Monday 4/22 to remove ovaries, and that they also found and removed endometriosis. Pray for full recovery and no pain.

Please pray for me, with mental challenges. I don’t understand paperwork I have to sign, and have been taken advantage of by unscrupulous businesses. Pray for wisdom in trusting others, and that I wouldn’t stop trusting everyone. I no longer want to help anyone. Also, my dog Riley had a stroke on Easter, and had to be put down. Pray also for my fiancé Tom, with a neck surgery that ruined use of his right hand, so can only work part time. Edith Majzer. (Edith & Tom are new worshippers here, and have come three times.)

Continued prayers

For Marge Suvler, in rehab at Elsie Johnson, recovering from a broken femur.

For relief from back and shoulder pain for Gayle Sommerfeld, caused by falling on March 21.

Pray for Family In Faith attenders struggling financially, for God to take care of them, and for them to be able to pay for all of their bills.

Pray for Doreen’s sister Maureen, still hospitalized in isolation at Rush with a C-Diff infection. She is improving, but still has heart problems, and blood pressure drops severely. John Keen

Pray for Jeannie (Jones ) Tellner, with two brain anuerysms. Update: the surgery will be done through the groin on May 6. Pray for peace, for relief from anxiety, for God to provide in a difficult situation. Pray that Jeannie and Duane would be able to find a new place to live, as the house they are renting has been sold, and they need to find a new place.

Keep praying for Noah (10 year old) and his father Andre (incarcerated, DuPage County.) Pray for Noah with lots of panic attacks. Pray he is kept safe, and for strength, as he is frightened. Guide his mother Gina with his healthcare, to find doctors here, and also back in Alabama, so they can go back home. Gina Scaletta.

Pray for the continuing war between Israel and Hamas, the war in Ukraine, the unrest in Venezuela, Columbia, and Ecuador, lawlessness in Haiti, conflict in Sudan, for God’s peace and for solutions to intractable situations.

Thanks and praise for healthy pregnancies thus far for Terra Engler, Jacqui Ratliff, and Sheila Carter. Pray this would continue throughout their pregnancies.

Thanks and praise for the opportunity to reach out through our food pantry to so many people. Pray we would not only give food, but that we would also be able to reach out spiritually with the love of Jesus.

Pray that Family In Faith would be able to reach out to many people who are not Christians, and that we would be blessed with seeing God bring conversions and baptisms of those who are Muslim, Hindu, and pagan. Pray we would also grow by reaching out to Christians in the area who have no church home.

For the Spanish speaking discussion group led by Miguel Angel Perez. Pray this group would grow, and be led by the Holy Spirit.

For those with chronic long-standing health issues:  Debbie Jamieson, with need for IV for nutrition, nauseous, exhaustion. For Larry, bedridden, degenerative bone/spine condition, nerve problem; (Larry had undiagnosed problems from 2017, just now discovered. His doctors are reluctant to increase medication levels, for fear of causing cardiac arrest. Pray for consensus among doctors and Larry to keep his pain in better control.) Elise Bock, long-term Covid; Nadia Archip, Tom Brackmann, Gayle Sommerfeld, all with back problems; John Schiavone, GERD.

For children’s church, for more children, young families, more teachers, and assistants. (We had 15 in attendance, and 5 more were supposed to come. We are increasing the number of children, but really need more teachers, leaders, and assistants . . . Sandi Helm and Beth Kass have been leading for 25 plus years, and need to be semi- “retired” from children’s church, as does Judy Smith.)

For community service workers here to finish hours. For us to share the good news of Jesus with them. Thanks on the many, many tasks they have been able to help us with.

Pray for a number of individuals attending FIF, and many beyond our church walls, for help dealing with depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues. Pray they receive the right care and meds, and for all their care givers, especially mothers of those with significant challenges. For parents to have strength, compassion, patience, and help in loving and raising those who are still children.

Lift up those with dementia, and their care givers:  Norma Munoz’ mom Carmen,  Kathy’s husband Ron Kohnke, Don Sommerfeld’s brother Richard, Ruth Daube (cared for by her son Dan,) Tom Brackmann’s sister Jean Busse, Seth’s grandmother Virginia. Help care givers to be patient and loving at all times.

Pray that God would bless the AA group at Family In Faith. Pray this support would help all of them stay free of alcohol. Pray for all those struggling with substance addictions.