Be the church

Beloved of God,

    This weekend we will all have the opportunity to hear from both of the missionary families that WRBC supports directly. We will be hearing from the Joneses on Sunday morning during the service via live video, and from the Blakes in the evening at 6pm in the Great Room. If you for any reason can’t attend or view either conversation, I know that the missions team would be happy to answer as many questions as they can.
    I have been so encouraged this past week to hear story after story of people who are looking out for one another through phone calls, visits, and shared table fellowship. I myself have been the beneficiary of a great deal of this kind of care. The great Baptist renegade Will Campbell used to say, “How can you go to church? You can be the church out there where God’s children are.” In a time where we cannot be together at the church house as often or with as many as we like, I am deeply encouraged to find so many of you being the church. I hope we will continue to be the church together.
    
Please join me in praying for:

• Jerri McTaggart and other volunteers helping with hurricane recovery in Louisiana, and those who need their help.
  
• Those fleeing from and fighting wildfires on the west coast.
• The Joneses serving in Oaxaca, Mexico.
• The Blakes serving in West Africa.
• Those who are lonely, afraid and isolated.
• In praise for the life of Dick Basinger and in intercession for his family.
• Our youngest brothers and sisters.
• Our oldest brothers and sisters.
• For teachers and school administrators who are confronting unprecedented challenges as they seek to educate the young folks in our community.
• For Doctors, nurses, other healthcare professionals and first responders as they battle this pandemic on behalf of us all.
• For people in positions of public trust at the federal, state, and local level.
• In praise, because no matter what, the Eternal One still sits on the throne, still loves us deeply, and is still working all things for the good of us: the beloved and the called.
• For each other. Please email April ([email protected]) if you’d like to be added to our prayer list.
  

You are the salt of the earth; you are the light of the world,

Marshall