Invitation to Prayer: Wednesday

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).

He Is the Way, the Truth, the Life

Jesus said he was the Way, the Truth, the Life.
And he said, Follow me.
Follow me and live the Way I showed you.
Follow me and live the Truth I showed you.
Follow me and live the Life I showed you.
The Way, the Truth, the Life he showed us was Love.
Live the Way of Love.
Live the Truth of Love.
Live the Life of Love.

I heard a woman say: All we have to do is:
Love Jesus and love one another.
O, yes!! All we have to do ...

Living love is a complicated, painstaking, patient path.
An all-the-time, every time, watch-where-you’re-going way.
Living love means making decisions all day long to love,
Living love means patience with those who don’t care about living love,
Living love means watching our words as well as our actions,
Living love means treating others as we ourselves want to be treated.

Living love means not hitting back,
Living love means loving our enemies,
Living love means loving those who speak all manner of evil against us.
And these things are just the beginnings of living Love.
Living Love means forgiving, means forgetting,
Living Love means there is no room for self-righteousness,
Living Love means being the people of God together,
a community of those who love one another
and who love all the one anothers that God created.
Living Love means understanding those who hate.

Living Love means going into all the world and telling God’s story.
He said God is Love
He said I am the Way.
He said I am Truth.
He said I am Life.
He said Follow me.
If we have the eyes to see
And the ears to hear
Life Abundant is ours.

Advent’s Alleluia to Easter’s Morning Light by Ann Weems

A message from Chris Laufer, Coordinator, Faces of Children

Greetings, Faces of Children Intercessor,

The Midland Faces of Children prayer group will meet this coming Wednesday, January, 2014, at 11:30 a.m. in Room 217 at First Presbyterian Church-Midland, as we lift in prayer the children of our hearts and communities. Please join us for prayer and, afterwards, for lunch ($5) and fellowship. I hope you will be able to join us.

The church is starting an 18-month-long renovation project and we won't have access to the Bride's Room during that time, so we will be meeting in Room 217. We’ll still have lunch available to us even after the move.

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