Homebound person of the month           Dorathea Henke           Heritage Manor Nursing Home           215 West Pennsylvania Avenue           Staunton, IL  62088-1199 Each month one of our congregation's homebound members will be listed in the bulletin and you are encouraged to especially keep this person in your prayers, pay a visit, send a card, etc.  "I was sick and you visited me."  Matthew 25:36
	For the Norman Eckhardt family. Norman was called to Heaven on August 31, 2008  Please keep the Eckhardt family in your prayers and works of love.
	For the Mildred Nobbe family. Mildred was called to Heaven on August 30, 2008  Please keep her family in your prayers and works of love.
	For Delores Welch, Christian Northeast, 11133 Dunn Road. St. Louis, Missouri 63136
	For Wayne Behme, Ed Bosch, Betty Eckhardt, Dorothea Henke, Dorothy Hesi, Dorothy Luer, and Mildred Nobbe, Joyce Pazero, Joe Pazero
	For John Schiber recovery from hip replacement surgery
	For Starlyn One (Pastor's Aunt) diagnosed with breast cancer.
	For our leaders and for the men and women in our armed forces and their families

Request For Prayer

If you would like us to have you in our prayers, please tell us what you would like us to pray for by sending us an e-mail to tlc@madisontelco.com.  Please include any information about you or a loved one, where they are located, need for prayer, celebration of a coming event, etc. 

 

The Congregation at Prayer An Order of Daily Meditation and Prayer At a set time and place each day, whether in the morning before work and school, or at the dinner table, or before bed, pray and confess out loud as much from this order of meditation and prayer as you are able, or as your family size and ages dictate. INVOCATION     In the name of the Father, and the X Son, and the Holy Spirit.  Amen. THE APOSTLES' CREED READINGS AND MEDITATIONS Read one of more of the following as your devotion dictates.     A brief reading from Scripture You may wish to keep the bulletin from worship on Sunday and reread the week's lesson(s).  A Psalm is also always appropriate.     A section of the Small Catechism Read one or two sections of Luther's Small Catechism, such as the First Commandment with meaning.     A Devotion such as Portals of Prayer. After the readings the family may discuss, or the individual may meditate upon the reading(s). PRAYERS The prayers may begin with thoughts taken from the readings.  After that you may offer prayers according to the ACTS order of prayer: Adoration:  Praise God for his goodness and holiness. Confession:  Confess to God your sinfulness and ask for grace. Thanksgiving:  Give thanks for the blessings in your life. Supplication:  Ask God for the specific blessings you seek. LORD'S PRAYER BLESSING May the almighty and most merciful God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, bless and preserve us.  Amen