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Prayer Requests, Family In Faith

Prayer Requests – February 4, 2024

  • Please continue to pray for my daughter Lisa. Surgery Friday to repair her broken right ankle was more involved than the first surgery, and she is in significant pain. Pray for the right combination of pain meds, so she can go home. Tina Lawrenz

  • Thanks for several new immigrants who came this morning, to begin meeting in a discussion group led by Miguel Angel Perez. Pray this group would grow, and be led by the Holy Spirit.

  • Please pray for my friend Nonie Rueda, who has had a stroke and heart surgery. Elsa Dalisay

  • Thanks for successful treatment for me from Shingles, and for significant healing. Tom Brackman

  • Pray for Debbie Jamieson, John & Doreen Keen, Tom Brackman, Phil Balgeman, and Jasmyne Brown-Roberts, all home sick this morning, for strength and healing and recuperation.

  • Pray for the family of my friend Charlotte, who just passed away. Ellen Fiene

  • Pray for healing for our daughter Annalise from intestinal pain. Pastor Steve & Beth

  • I have invited my daughter to join me at church . . . pray the Holy Spirit moves her to come. (Update:  Jacqueline came to church for the first time Feb. 4!) Alma Alvarado

  • Pray for several individuals at Family In Faith with challenging health issues.

  • Pray for Don Lundeen, re-hospitalized in the ICU at Glen Oaks with heart problems, after 2 new stents. Pray for strength in his legs, to be able to walk and keep balance, and that he’d be able to go home.

  • For Debbie Kamperman, preparing for surgery on her spine in a week, on February 12th. Pray for relief from significant back pain, and leg cramps, and that this surgery would fix some long-standing medical problems.

  • Pray for our neighbor Carlos Pena, hospitalized last 12 days with kidney failure and other challenges, and with chemo stopped after one treatment. Pray his numbers stabilize so he can return home. Bob Mason

  • Pray for those in the war in Ukraine and in the Gaza strip, for the conflict in Syria and Iraq, and the situation in Yemen.

  • Pray for Andre, incarcerated in DuPage County, feeling helpless in being away from his family. Pray especially for his sons, who are having huge struggles and are very upset at the situation.

Continued prayers

  • Thanks and praise, that we are serving more than 100 families at every single food pantry, including yesterday. Pray especially that we would reach out with the gospel to all those coming for help.

  • Thanks for those in the New Member class, and for God bringing growth to Family In Faith. Pray that we would continue to grow, especially with reaching out to those who need to know Jesus personally.

  • Lift up two couples, one older and one younger, who have separated and are no longer together. Pray for peace, for healing of deep emotional wounds, for God’s will to be done.

  • Please pray for Roger’s Aunt Sandy Stapleton, having surgery again to remove more cancer this Friday. Pray for healing, and that they will get all the cancer now. Judy Smith. (Update: surgery went very well, and Sandy was able to go home already, and is very upbeat.)

  • Please pray for Miguel Angel Perez and for the discussion group he is beginning. Also pray for God’s help and provision in working through an automobile accident 2 months ago.

  • For my husband Andre, in jail in DuPage County, for God’s grace and mercy for him and his family. For God’s guidance and direction, and for the judge and prosecutor to be empathetic and understanding. Gina Scaletta

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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; Elise Bock, long-term Covid; Nadia Archip, back problems; John Schiavone, GERD.

  • Pray that Family In Faith would grow in reaching out to those with no church home.

  • 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.

  • For children’s church, for more children, young families, more teachers, and assistants.

  • 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.