Prayer Initiative
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Share ideas about this new initiative. Video was recorded June 18.
Rev John McLarty and Rev. Richie Butler talk about this new initiative at Annual Conference 2024.
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Throughout the scriptures, we see God calling people to serve their community and giving them the gifts to do it. As a new school year begins, we reflect together on how God has blessed each child, youth and adult with specific gifts with which to bless their community. “The ministry of all Christians in Christ’s name and spirit is both a gift and a task” (para. 129, The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church, 2016). Through living out our own unique calling, we can transform our communities and be a light to the world. Each one of us is indeed blessed by God to be a blessing to others.
- Week 1: Matthew 4:18-22 (Call of the first disciples)
- Week 2: Jeremiah 1:4-10 (Call of Jeremiah)
- Week 3: Matthew 28:1-10 (Call of Mary, the “apostle to the apostles”)
- Week 4: Exodus 3:1-12 (Call of Moses)