Invitation to Prayer

Faces of Children is an ecumenical prayer ministry under the auspices of First Presbyterian Church of Midland, Texas. Our mission is to initiate ministries of prayer for children in churches, communities, and neighborhoods. In doing so, we seek to provide an opportunity for people of God to join together, learn about children and their needs throughout the world, and celebrate Christ's love (especially as it relates to children).

Morning Prayer

Today by The Reverend Virginia Going

"Let me live today.
Let me be open to the miracle of this day.
Let me breathe the best of today.
Let me not miss the heart of today.
Let me find the gift of today,
hidden like a jewel in rubble of care, duty, and detail.

Let me pause to hear
the steady beat of the heart of God —
hoping, aching, sorrowing, expectant, patient,
despairing heart of God.

Listen, listen.
Do you hear it?
Ever so faint but steady, steady,
rhythmic organ, strong muscle,
thumping, beating, pumping, sustaining, encompassing,
wildly dancing heart of God.

Let me live this day, aware, open, listening, breathing, alive.”

Women’s Uncommon Prayers; Our Lives Revealed, Nurtured, Celebrated
edited by Elizabeth Rankin Geitz, Marjorie A. Burke, Tracy J. Sukraw

A message from Chris Laufer, Coordinator, Faces of Children

Greetings, Faces of Children Intercessor,

I’m sending out the next two weeks’ worth of prayer requests this week because I will be at the 2012 Churchwide Gathering of Presbyterian Women in Orlando, Florida next week. Please keep the women (and also the few brave men) who attend, work, or volunteer at this conference in your prayers. And I’d also like to ask you to keep in prayer the Faces of Children team working our exhibit booth at this national conference. Thank you!

The Faces of Children prayer group will meet on Wednesday, July 25, 2012 at 11:30 a.m. in the Bride’s room at First Presbyterian Church-Midland, with lunch ($5) and fellowship to follow.

If you have prayer concerns or celebrations about children, those who care for them, those who have authority over them, or those who harm them (the really hard prayers to say sometimes), please send them to me at at claufer@facesofchildren.net, or give me a call.

Grace and peace,

Chris