October 2023 Update

A few updates and prayer requests that I'd like to share publicly this month.

1) Please continue to pray for the HCF Future Facilities Team as we work with a new architect to get a new set of drawings.

2) Please pray for HCF as we seek guidance in hiring some new staff, and as we seek replacements for deacons and elders who are taking at least one year off after serving six years as a deacon or elder (the principle of the Sabbath year).

3) Pray for our sister church in Belarus.  There's still a lot going on in that part of the world even if it's not making the news.

4) Join me in praying for friends and family members who are unsaved--some need to hear the gospel for the first time, others have heard it and are yet to understand it, and still others have heard it, understood and rejected it.  There are many people in all of our families that fall into the different types of soil in the Parable of the Sower and the Soils.  The harvest is still plentiful, and the laborers are still few.  We are seeing now more than ever that there are unreached people groups in our own "backyards."  How do we plan to reach them?  As we study the book of Acts together at HCF, I think we would appreciate your prayers that the Holy Spirit would help us to have a passion for fulfilling the Great Commission and that God would give us a vision for how to reach our local communities and our region and even the uttermost parts of the earth.

5) There are members of my family with health concerns--I won't name them for privacy reasons, but God knows who they are.  Please pray for healing for them.

6) Please continue to pray for those who are a part of the discipleship community here--whether they come to read the blog posts, watch the videos, or join us for our weekly ZOOM Bible Study sessions.  Pray for God to prepare their hearts to hear the gospel and be receptive to it so that it will take root and produce fruit.