Pray for this team and all the people and lives we may touch.

Please team, be in prayer for our hard working team member we love, Patty. You don't all know her prayer requests, but there are many needs. Just wanted to remind you to all keep her in your prayers and we can all support her and love her through this! Thanks everyone! June 24, 2008

Never forget to pray....

But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will.

Team Members: Please email me with your plans and dates you can come alongside of us and help out until I get the interactive calendar or online itenarary working!

We always remember that God loves all of His children! And when illness, weakness, pain, loss of hearing and sight, the inability to walk, a failing memory and confusion keeps people from doing the things that they are used to doing everyday and the things that used to bring them joy, they need to know that they are still beautiful and loved by God. They are still valuable! We pray for God to allow us to be Christ-like and shower them with love and compassion and share Jesus with all! They all need to be reminded that they are still as beautiful and wonderful to God as they were when they were young and strong. We are not sufficient, but with God we are made sufficient to take on this wonderful job of loving on them. And we love what we do! We will lean on the Lord to guide us and use our hands to hold theirs, our arms to reach out and to hug them, our mouths and minds to bring love and joy and smiles to them and share Jesus with them. We always ask God to guide us and use us for His will. And He does! He is amazing! He places us where He wants us and leads us to many special people and places and we have witnessed many WOWS!

We thank God for this ministry, this wonderful team that He has brought together and we are looking ahead to follow His lead, and grow more members, cover more ground, and do whatever He has us do for Him.

I ask God, in Jesus' name to bless each and every team member & their families, financial supporters, prayer warriors, encouragers and most especially every single soul living in a nursing home, retreat, assisted living center, or hospital! And we ask the Lord also to bless the many hard working employees and volunteers at all these places that deserve so much appreciation and love for their efforts! May we never forget to pray and follow His lead and give Him praise and most of all we give Him all the glory for all the wonderful things that goes on inside those walls and behind those doors that can be so lonely!

We owe Him all the Glory for our smiles, our members, our time and finances that He blesses us with! May we always use these gifts wisely. IN the precious name of Jesus! AMEN

1 Timothy 5:1-2
Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.

Mercy & Grace Ministry ~ Volunteers serving our Lord in our community.