This coming Monday, September 14th, starts (continues?) a new chapter in my life. For the past several months I have been preparing to be a facilitator for the GriefShare ministry, a grief recovery seminar and support group. Each cycle includes 14 weeks of teaching and discussion on a wide range of topics that affect those grieving the loss of someone they love. We are offering two sections of this per week - Monday nights and Saturday afternoons - to accommodate different schedules. Steve and I attended GriefShare in another church last fall, and found the materials to be very helpful.
I am humbly submitting three prayer requests to those of you who would like to be part of this mercy ministry:
1. Please pray that God would bring into these sessions the ones that He would like to see helped through their journey of grief.
2. Please pray for me. I have had plenty of doubts and feelings of inadequacy as Monday approaches.
Mostly, though, it is our desire to live out 2 Corinthians 1:3-4:
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God."
3. Please pray that by God's grace we will be used to bring comfort to hurting people, and in doing so, we will continue to be comforted ourselves.
I will be in prayer for all 3 may God encourage you and free you from any doubt or feeling of inadequacy that you may be feeling, although it is through our weakness's and inadequate feelings that God strengthens us an is able to use us. God Bless you and Steve in your new ministry. DS
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