Today was our Youth Sunday which was the conclusion to our 2019 Youth Explosion. I was able to attend much of the service but left to preach at Christ Family Church for their 11 am service to give Pastor Patricio Wilson a break.
Elder Cherry prayed for all the students, teachers, counselors, bus drivers, school workers, etc. that are heading back to school for tomorrow (traditional school starts).
In honor of the Back to School Prayer, here's a beautiful one from John Calvin that I'd like to share...
Prayer on Preparing to Go to School
OUTREACH OPPORTUNITY: The Deaconess Ministry will be serving dinner to homeless women at the Helen Wright Center in Raleigh on Thursday, August 29th, at 7 pm. Volunteers are needed to serve and donations are welcome. Please contact Deaconess Phyllis Lewis or Deaconess Angelique Cherry for additional information.
Elder Cherry prayed for all the students, teachers, counselors, bus drivers, school workers, etc. that are heading back to school for tomorrow (traditional school starts).
In honor of the Back to School Prayer, here's a beautiful one from John Calvin that I'd like to share...
Prayer on Preparing to Go to School
O LORD, who art the fountain of all wisdom and learning, since thou of thy special goodness hast granted that my youth is instructed in good arts which may assist me to honest and holy living, grant also, by enlightening my mind, which otherwise labours under blindness, that I may be fit to acquire knowledge; strengthen my memory faithfully to retain what I may have learned: and govern my heart, that I may be willing and even eager to profit, lest the opportunity which thou now givest me be lost through my sluggishness. Be pleased therefore to infuse thy Spirit into me, the Spirit of understanding, of truth, judgment, and prudence, lest my study be without success, and the labour of my teacher be in vain. In whatever kind of study I engage, enable me to remember to keep its proper end in view, namely, to know thee in Christ Jesus thy Son; and may every thing that I learn assist me to observe the right rule of godliness. And seeing thou promisest that thou wilt bestow wisdom on babes, and such as are humble, and the knowledge of thyself on the upright in heart, while thou declarest that thou wilt cast down the wicked and the proud, so that they will fade away in their ways, I entreat that thou wouldst be pleased to turn me to true humility, that thus I may show myself teachable and obedient first of all to thyself, and then to those also who by thy authority are placed over me. Be pleased at the same time to root out all vicious desires from my heart, and inspire it with an earnest desire of seeking thee. Finally, let the only end at which I aim be so to qualify myself in early life, that when I grow up I may serve thee in whatever station thou mayest assign me. AMEN.
John Calvin, Tracts and Letters, Volume 2, 96-97.
OUTREACH OPPORTUNITY: The Deaconess Ministry will be serving dinner to homeless women at the Helen Wright Center in Raleigh on Thursday, August 29th, at 7 pm. Volunteers are needed to serve and donations are welcome. Please contact Deaconess Phyllis Lewis or Deaconess Angelique Cherry for additional information.
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