Prayer requests

We remembered the following persons and situations in our prayers on Sunday. Thank you for continuing to keep them in your prayers:

Mary Jayne Jones is recuperating from knee replacement surgery.

Walter Seifert is recuperating from gall bladder surgery.

Michael Lee, son of Ted and Sondra, has received a stem cell transplant; we hope it will help eradicate his leukemia.

Carrie Jeffries, Greg Rumberg's aunt, is hospitalized with an infection and other health issues.

We remember those who don't have adequate housing during these cold days and nights, and those who operate emergency shelters across the city. Vine Street will host an emergency shelter on Wednesday night as part of Room in the Inn. Our thanks to the volunteers who make this life-saving ministry possible!

We Pray to the Lord...

We hold in our prayers the family of Eric, Allison and Sarah Hutton. Allison’s mom, Marie Heath, broke her elbow from a fall at her home this week. Eric’s mom, Karen Hutton, is recovering from hip replacement surgery following a fall.

We’re grateful some of our young adults have been able to reunite and get away for the weekend at Christmount in North Carolina. As they return home today, we hope for traveling mercies for: Kevin Clark, Rico Carls, Alex Cauthen, Alex Chumbley, Clare Crenshaw, Elizabeth Crenshaw, Kara Reed, Kalie Rhodes, Savvy Lyle, Ellen Matthews, Johanna Keith and Elena Nourabadi.

And finally, the pomp and circumstance has concluded: Thomas Kleinert received his doctor of ministry Saturday during a graduation ceremony at Lipscomb University!

 

Sunday Prayers

In worship this first Sunday morning of Advent, we offered our prayers, remembering Donna and Vaughn Woods, who ask we pray for Miriam Woods, Vaughn's younger sister. Miriam became very ill Tuesday and had emergency surgery this week.

Please be mindful the visitation for Leigh Ann Zirkle's mom, Sue Ann Peffen, will be today and the service will be tomorrow. Details are here.

We are are grateful Linda Parker, a friend and former minister of this church, received good news. She has been dealing with cancer, yet last week the results of a recent PET scan reveal she is now cancer free. We rejoice with Linda, Kennedy, Grant and all who love Linda.

Charlie Biter's surgery went well, Camille Biter reports, and we look forward their return this week to Nashville. Also returning this week are our friends who are traveling in Germany discovering Luther and the joys of Advent.

Finally, we give thanks to God for our bookkeeper Linda Bussey, who retired last week. We wish her all the best as she begins a new chapter in her life.

Prayer is a formative part of our ministry at Vine Street. Please remember we are offering three opportunities to pray per week for our church, Nashville and our world, starting Tuesday morning at 7:30 a.m. Click here to learn the full schedule.

Grace & peace to us all this Lord's day....

 

In Our Prayers...

During worship yesterday morning, we offered prayers for safe travels for our Vine Street friends who are visiting Germany to mark the 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation and the start of Advent: Thomas Kleinert, Debra Cannon, Joyce Crowell, Eva Evans, Gary & Deb Holloway, and Bryce & Rachel Dixon.

We also holding Camille and Charlie Biter in prayer. They will be traveling to Houston where Charlie will have surgery.

Finally, we remembered the men, women and children who were killed, injured or affected when a mosque was attacked during worship on Friday in Egypt. May houses of worship be again sanctuaries for prayer.

All Saints' Sunday

Please keep in your prayers this week our Room in the Inn guests and all our volunteers.

Jan Volk will have a procedure to improve her health this week. She asks for our prayers.

The Regional Chi Rho fall retreat is wrapping up today. We’re grateful Ellen, Lise, Alex, Meadow, Elijah Wilson, Duke and Hope attended.

And on this All Saints’ Sunday, we offer prayers for Vine Street Christian Church members who died during the past year, including Norman Hall, Elizabeth Lawrence, Roy DeHart, Leyla Harding and Rev. Wayne Bell.

Shelbyville and Murfreesboro

Rev. Kyle Harris, interim pastor at First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Shelbyville, asks that we join First Christian in praying for peaceful demonstrations and peace-filled relationships this weekend. Rev. Harris’ request comes as Shelbyville and Murfreesboro brace for white supremacist rallies this weekend—events that have been on the mind of our Thomas Kleinert, who shared related insights on his blog this week.

Saturday Prayers

Our prayers of support go out to Buddy Barnes and his family. Sam Mosier, the husband of Martha Mosier, Buddy’s sister, died Wednesday in Chattanooga after a long illness. The funeral is set for Sunday, Oct. 22 in Chattanooga. The obituary is posted here.

 

We offer, too, prayers for traveling mercies on behalf of our Fellowship of Twelve. Many of them are in Kentucky this weekend visiting Cane Ridge, a key historical site of our denominational tradition. Fellowship members include Alice Cannon, Joyce Crowell, Melanie Gao, Jackie Halstead, Erica Hayden, Johanna Keith, Bob Lyons, Malinda Moseley, Kennedy Shuler, Helen Trabue, Kara Reed and Thomas Kleinert.

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