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ABBA FATHER!

Thank you for Your Love, & Your Healing Grace. Thank you for the air that we breath, the life that you gave us in our mothers womb. Thank you for forgiving us all of our mistakes, & sin. Thank you for being there 24/7 through prayer, & Your Word. Thank you for the gift of life, thank you for encouraging us through Your Word, which is the Truth, & the Truth will set us free. Help us to love each other, & forgive others that have sinned against us. Just as we sinned against, Your son LORD JESUS CHRIST, fill us with Your Faith, Fill us with Your healing love.

Help us LORD, we NEED Your help, we want Your healing Grace to touch us all. Open our Spiritual eyes, & set us free from the pain, & confusion we are in at times. Have mercy on Your Children, we need You LORD!

Help us to sing to You songs of Praise, Praise precedes the Blessings, Your Word tells us this!

We lift up & hands & our hearts to You LORD, in Faith!

Refresh, refill, renew, & us I pray!

Heal us LORD!

In JESUS CHRIST name!

Amen & Amen! <><

Thanks @Former-Member

God Bless to you

God Bless you my wonderful sisters @Former-Member@Former-Member, @PeppiPatty, @Former-Member, @Smc xoxo

Praying for you everyday

@Former-Member, the rural-city-suburb that our church is in has some odd demographics too. The bit the building is in is fairly middle class; a more picturesque part of the suburb a little bit to the south is definitely upper class; and in the western part of it is a "downmarket" area that was originally a government housing estate, and still has a lot of housing commission properties in it. Our church membership would be mostly (not all) middle class, but the members come from a wider area than the immediate suburb. Probably from a 30-40 km radius. We've got a lot of Chinese students and migrants in our membership, which I really enjoy. There's something nice about being able to pick out someone a couple of rows behind you singing in Mandarin. Every tribe, every tongue...

Some of the members are involved in a program that supports "at risk" primary school kids in the area, and others have connections with local homeless services and similar, so at least there's pretty strong "feelers" going out to people who are in hard spots.

A friend of ours who retired from a senior clerical position in the Anglican church reckoned that the places to get to know people were the town's supermarket and pub, so guess where he'd make a point of dropping in when he visited a new place. It seemed to work, too.

I'm not much of a pub person myself, @Former-Member. Cafes can be a similarly useful "get to know people" place, unless it's a tourist town and they're full of visitors... although even that tells you a lot about a place.