Prayers from Memphis to K

Memphis to K - 4 Weeks - Daily Prayer

As the summer is giving way to the excitement of fall, one of our Redeemer Memphis families, the ______, is heading across the globe to K .  __________ are leaving this week for  . _____ is a Med-Peds resident and will be working with a medical missions effort serving the children of K.  Some of the women of Redeemer will remember that this past spring Megan shared the news about this upcoming trip with our Women's Bible Study group and since then we have been praying for our Heavenly Father's blessing on this ministry opportunity.  More recently, Jeffrey offered a commissioning prayer for the Dalgo's during one of our Sunday worship services. 

"Pray as you can not as you can't"

Figuring out how to gather for corporate prayer amidst people's busy schedules often offers a significant challenge logistically.  For this reason we are launching a trial effort at a Redeemer prayer blog.  We hope this will provide an avenue for communing with each other in prayer as well as for sharing requests.  For our corporate communion in prayer we will be using the ancient practice of the church known as the prayer office.



We think now is the time to launch this trial effort, even if it only serves to help us focus on praying for the D's short-term missions effort in K.

Of course, we hope our people find it helpful enough to justify continuing the blog.  There are, no doubt, many other ways to stimulate a collective prayer effort...if this one serves Redeemer well then we will make every effort to keep it going.

Eugene Peterson said, "Pray what you can not as you can't" - what a freeing way to look at prayer.  We can pray.  We can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, so any prayer effort, even if weak in our own estimation, is worthwhile because our Lord Jesus guarantees us our Heavenly Father loves to hear his children agree together in prayer (even if over a prayer blog).

What a blessing to realize that in participating in the ancient practice of the prayer office, our prayers are joined with the prayers of God's church throughout the world and across all the ages.  Our efforts may feel small but we connect to something bigger than Redeemer Memphis in 2013.  We can be bold and confident that He will use it in beautiful ways to further His kingdom and build us up in the process.

We want to involve as many of you as possible, including our children so stay tuned to hear more of how.  We will launch this daily prayer via this blog, posting to twitter and facebook during the D's trip so we can pray with them even though we are in Memphis and they are K.  We will be sharing specific prayer requests for their trip and hope you will share your own requests here and comment often.  

Until then pray for God to help us pray...