One of the beautiful things about ministry is that we are all in it together, and we are all ministers. When we join together in meditation, prayer, silence, reflection, or whatever means we use to find that peace inside, then we come together in Love and in God. Listed below are the most recent prayer requests. You are invited to add these joys and concerns to your own prayer list and to lift up those who have made them known. If you would like to add yourself or someone else to this list, please fill in the form provided below. (Email addresses will not be published.) Submissions are cleared monthly and are subject to review.  You are welcome to resubmit/update ongoing prayer requests.

Thank you for your participation, your love, and your prayers.

In all things, we give thanks and praise to you, Oh Lord.

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Name: Jason

Prayer: Well, I guess I'm at the end of my ropes or I wouldn't be here for a request. I am 50 years old. Always have been gay but felt like I had to do what the strict Baptist family expected and get married and have children...which I did. I would take nothing for my children.....my wife and I divorced over 3 years ago. The kids, which are grown now have been the only thing that keeps me here....but lately thats just not enough anymore. I am a christian and have fought hard to keep faith but thats gone now. I lost my job over a year ago which resulted in me losing my house and everything that I have. Job search has been horrible. So, guess thats why I'm here. I even have quite my anti-depressants to see if it would go ahead and give me the strength to end it all. I'm slowly getting there.....its scary, but feel its the only path to take......So, thats why I'm here....I'm sure people are in worsh shape than me but I just don't have any motivation and fight left. I would appreciate your prayers. I hope they do help me....as I fell mine don't make it past the ceiling anymore. Thanks again. Jason

Name: Joyce

Prayer: I had the woman I wanted to spend my life with walk out on me and back to a abusive man she had been with before. She left without a explanation, she just left. She had asked me for a second chance 8 months ago and I gave it to her. I rescued her from almost death at the time. I feel used and betrayed as she is right back to where she almost died. Please pray that the pain will go away and I can move on with my life, The hurt is crushing me. I just don't understand why, I just ask for peace and forgiveness and to forget in my heart. Please pray for me.

Name: Tommy

Prayer: after years of starving for intimacy, affection,and affiliation with my own kind and hiding my love and feeling for the guy I am in love with and love deeply christopher long for 6 years, I am trying to work out my issues with him because I want a life with him and I need the LORD help with all this i want to be blessed to have, love, affection, intimacy,loving, in my life.asking the LORD to see me thur as I finally trust him with me and chris and to overcome the problems of our ages, races so on

Name: Brian

Prayer: I ask for your prayers for those like myself who suffer from severe depression; for all those who suffer emotional illnesses and those who care for them...that all may learn to embrace the love of Jesus, and in Him, find the hope and comfort they are seeking.

Name:  Danna

Prayer: Urgent!Good day. My name is Danna Hunter and am requesting prayer for myself. I have recently taken THREE exams in May of this year which are: Principles of Accounts, Mathematics and Principles of Business. I have studied extremely hard for these exams and am asking please for your prayers towards those THREE subjects asking God for Success, prosperity and Guidance. Please up lift those subjects to almighty God cause those THREE subjects are what i of to pass to go off to college this September. Please pray that i pass them all. I also would like to ask if you could pray over those subjects up until the end of August. Many thanks. God Bless you all!

Name: Phil

Prayer: Please pray GOD gives me all the desires of my heart that are righteous in GODs eyes.Pray GOD sends me on the mission He has for me now,Pray GOD raises me a mile above those used by Satan to glorify GOD,Pray GOD Blesses me financially now and always.Pray GOD heals my body completely now.Pray GOD brings me my soulmate now In JESUS Name Amen.

Prayer: Please Pray GOD brings me my one and only soulmate now.I've been praying for a soulmate for about 14 years now,during most of that 14 years I've been expecting my soulmate to come at anytime.

Name: Carol

Prayer: pray for Tammy of Shunk,PA that she will find a husband

Name: Linda

Prayer: Please pray for my daughter Jennifer. She was just diagnosed with a rare form of cervical/vaginal cancer. She is only 33 and the mother of two year old twins. Pray for a complete healing in Jesus name... if that is God's will.Thanks, Linda

Name: William

Prayer: Please play for Cascade Community Church as they vote on my ordination. Prayer for Larry and Sturart and their health problems. Pleas pray for accepatance of our brothers and sisters in the commuinity. I need special prayer that I will find the right career choice. I lost my job and I want a job which encompasses outreach and church. Pray that finances will be available for bills.

Name:  Tommy

Prayer: I am a christian and gay and finally made peace with it but the problem is my mom since I came out last summer after years of hiding&putting my life on hold for her.also I got a guy I am in love with Chris L after 6 years of hiding my feelings for him I am trying to work out my issues with him because i love him and want a life with him i am black, he is white.and I am a military veteran and dealing with issues with veteran affairs and ss to.I need Jesus to continue to make a way for me and to bring me out of my desert .Isaiah 35:1-2a and I long to feel my creator.s loving,guilding,protecting presence as he helps me build a life with the guy I am in love with &care deeply. thanks for your prayer support

Name: Rhonda

Prayer: need some very heavy prayers for my friend, Twinkie, in Atlanta. Satan is trying to get Twinkie back on drugs by putting all kinds of trouble in his way. Last month he lost his money to pay his phone bill and his father died. This month he was at a shopping center in Atlanta and two teenagers robbed him of his money order for his rent and the cash for the phone bill. Now he has to move out.  Twinkie was homeless and on drugs for about 20 years but when he got shot in the head in 2007, he decided that he was not going to do that anymore and has been clean for about 18 months. He also has a bullet in his head and brain damage that has made him legally blind. Twinkie is also HIV+. Twinkie receives SSI.

Name: Dick

Prayer: I am giving thanks to the Lord that my brother in law successfully had a cancerous brain tumor removed and is doing remarkably well. Pray that the chemo and radiation will not be too hard on him.

Name: Jo

Prayer: Prayers for my neighbor Owen,who has cancer the last stages..Yesterday they brought in a hospital bed to keep him comfortable.Too many family and friends,I have lost too cancer this year and in 2008.. Also for the family of Nathan,he is a little boy in Elyse's class he just lost his daddy age 47 heart attack. Please pray for all who are in need of healing and those who we need to let go.Give us strength to let them go to Jesus in heaven..Amen

Name: Sergeant Tom Rowlands

Prayer: For the greiving Army Families of the Hometown Recruiter Assistant Soliders who were wounded and killed in Little Rock, AR, and Los Angeles, CA by gunmen who oppose the war. Innocent newly graduated Soldiers from Basic Training and Advanced Schools for job specialties.

Name: Arizzona

Prayer: Have not been well for a long time, please pray that a solution has been found.

Name: Randy

Prayer: Prayers for the family and friends of Skylar who passed away recently.

Name: John

Prayer: lord you know how hard i tried today too see roseann please let all my efforts be in vain open her heart ,remove all obstacles that keep us apart send me a message lord im not used to being patient let me know that she is for m im not giving up lord grant me wisdom to do what is right please let her stay with me lord thy will be done amen

Name: Jo

Please pray for my family that the passing of my cousin. She had a massive heart attck her husband  found her in the bathroom already gone. Please pray for healing and guidance for them and me.. And for my neighbor Betty Reid, she is back in the hospital with a blood clot on the opposite knee she had surgrey on, And her mate Sonny prayers for him for good health he fell 1 week ago in the apt. he is sore and leg is numb.

Name: Linda

Please lift up your prayers for Rachel in Rancho Cucamonga California. She was out riding her horse, was found unconscious, and is now in ICU. May the Lord bring about peace and restoration, as only He can do.

Name: Steaphanie

Prayer: Please pray for Rick thats in Boulder .CO to be a better friend to me. I barly talk to him and have not seen him in many months. I miss that guy that talked more and was going to see me. Why he like this? Please pray thanks.

Name: John

Prayer: Dear Shawn and fellow Christians,On April 14th I lost my beloved mother to a massive heart attack in Port Angeles, Washibngton. It was sudden and very unexpected. She was only 63 yrs. old and she was one of the most beautiful and loving women I ever met and not just because she was my mother. She was loved by so many people and missed by as many and more. Her husband had her cremated and her ashes were disposed of before my brother and I could get to Washinton. I ask not only for prayers of peace and closure for our family but also for the man, who lives with such hate and jealousy in his heart. I am a recovering addict and this time has been very taxing on my sobriety. Please ask our Father to be with me and to give me the strength I desperately need to live clean and sober. God bless you all!In Christ's Love,John

Name: Fred

Prayer: Thank You Jesus for the many Blessings. Please Help Joyce get well from her illness.

Name: Jim

Prayer: Hi jim here met Shawn Thomas at open door coffee house arkon Love your music!! Please pray for me ! I really want to find tru love in the gay world it's so hard to find him!! it seem's the gay men want to have sex!! and that's all I'm try to not have sex until I find my sole mate. I hope and pray and can u pray for me that I hope be gaying is not just sex!! I want more!! a freind and a solmate I pray all the time to find my tru love!! please pray

Name: Clyde

Prayer: Please pray for my Mom, Joyce.. She was diagnosed with Shingles and will soon be 84 years old. Also, my Cousin Lois, was diagnosed with cancer. My Cousin Maidra, lost her Mom and Dad within less than a year of each other. All 3 are very religious people and need God's blessings and healing.

Name: Jeff

Prayer: Please keep me in prayer as I am very unhappy. Not with my wife as I do love her but I have come to face the reality that I am Gay and don't know what to do. I know my wife knows that I am gay or atleast bi-sexual. But I am Gay and not as happy as I could or should be. I've been brought up in a strict christian home that taught that homosexuality was an abomination. But I've always known that I was gay I quess I just couldn't face that fact at the time and thought the best thing to do was to get married. Please PRAY for me as this has been very tortorous and hard to deal with. I don't know what I'm going to do at this time. Please pray that God will give me the wisdom to know what too do.

Name: Stephen

Prayer: Pray for Austin to find a quick end to an unhealthy relationship with Chelsea. He is drawing closer to God now and is seeking the Lord about how to leave the relationship behind. Please ask God for boldness and grace for Austin to release Chelsea and stand up as a man of God.

Name: Arizzona

Prayer: Dear Lord, I come to you at this time and THANK YOU for being just who you are. Also thank you for sparing my friends home from the fire zone.

Name: Dan

Prayer: needed on many levels. the most important being for the understanding of my wife, who i came out to last august. she is struggling my decision. the thing is that i have always known i was gay, but hid in the church for years. i don't know what is ahead for us, but i pray for her happiness and fulfillment in life- whatever direction that takes us. i love her because she is the mother of my 3 children, but i cannot satisfy her needs any longer. meanwhile, i still believe in and seek God's direction in my life.