Christ Lutheran Church -- conyngham, pa

Scripture Reading for Discussion:     Matthew 26: 36-56

Questions for Family Discussion:

1. Describe a time you felt betrayed by someone you trusted.
2. How does it feel to be abandoned by a friend in your time of need?
3. Talk about how alone Jesus must have felt in the night before his death?

Prayer Concerns for the Week:

• Healing for Joey Perry, Wilson Budgeon, Jennifer Stoss, Mary Ellen Pavuk, Linda Fullmer, Ruth Unger, Ann Shewell, Janice Kleckner, Otto Kruse, Jim and Lorraine Wolf, Jeanette Wendel, John & Beulah Shuman, Phil Faust, Susan Mowery, Laura Cisar, Jim Ballard, Howard Lohrke, Ralph Kisenwether,  Joan Saxon,  Al Gaydos, Dale Shuman, Chad Cimo, Dorothy Heller, Phil Davis, Ed and Pauline Garrison  Martha Cobaugh, Al & Betty Lou Konjusky, Emma Council, Bunny Monticello, Nancy Winters, Sherry Hildebrand, Chad Nicholas, Gerhard & Margaret Grenzberg, Bev Hilliard, Foster Hilliard, Betsy Fisher, Gary Shoepe, Carol Bellinghusen, Donald Swank, Norman Kleckner, Russ & Wilma Oswald, June Hoepfner, Ruth Decatur, Bill Schrueder, Erma Masteller & others in need of healing and facing or recuperating from surgery.
• Thanksgiving for those in whom healing has taken place
• For an end to violence & the beginning of peace in Iraq & Afghanistan
• For protection against terrorist attacks in the USA and everywhere
• For the safety of armed forces away from home, especially Lt. Kelly Lanternier and Daniel Krivenko
• For an end to racism and hatred that perverts the will of God
• For families which know the pain of stressed or broken relationships
• For the homeless and hungry, refugees & those persecuted for their faith
• For those who live with unrelieved chronic pain each day of their lives
• For those across the country especially feeling the pain of economic stress
• For a lasting truce and growing peace between Israelis & Palestinians
• That our congregation will observe a devotional Holy Week and a joyful Easter
• For the families of Mary Jane McCutchen, Joan Lebo and Dr. John Duffy as they grieve their deaths.

Prayer of the Week:

Almighty god, you sent you Son, our Savior Jesus Christ, to take our flesh upon him and to suffer death on the cross.  Grant that we may share in his obedience to your will and in the glorious victory of his resurrection; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.  Amen.

Daily Bible Readings:

Monday:             Psalm 10

Tuesday:             Psalm 44

Wednesday:        Psalm 137

Thursday:           1 Corinthians 11: 23-26

Friday:                Psalm 22

Saturday:            Lamentations 3: 1-9 and 19-24