XXIII Pentecost

Let Us Pray For...
AMiA Youth Ministry
The Rev. Chris Zoephel (Director)

Young Anglicans Project
The Rev. Dr. Jack Gabig (Director)

Anglican Academy



Special Prayer Petitions
from Rev. Chris Zoephel:

1) For our team to help advance the Kingdom by helping churches reach students with the gospel of Jesus Christ
2) For unity of our team
3) For encouragement and strength
4) For protection
5) For Soul in the City Summer Camp coming next summer in Denver and Jacksonville (and all that goes into the planning and running of such events)
6) For our workshops at Winter Conference etc...
7) For our teaching and training in East Africa. We are going with Youth Specialties to train youth in six countries (Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Tanzania and the Suday) in mid August.



From the Scriptures
I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. It is right for me to feel this way about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel. For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus. And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Philippians 1:3-11 (ESV)

A Guiding Prayer
Lord, we beseech thee to keep thy household the Church in continual godliness; that through thy protection it may be free from all adversities, and devoutly given to serve thee in good works, to the glory of thy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

“The Twenty-second Sunday after Trinity,” The Book of Common Prayer (USA, 1928)

A Heritage Reflection
“For the way of all those who see is single and upward, illumined by the heavenly light, but the ways of those who do not see are many, dark and divergent; the one leads to the kingdom of heaven, uniting man to God, while the others lead down to death, separating man from God. Thus it is necessary for you and for all who are concerned about their salvation to make your way by faith, without deviation, surely and resolutely, lest, in slacking, you remain in gross desires, or, erring, wander from the right path.”*

St. Irenaeus of Lyons, Bishop and Martyr (d. ca. 202)
The Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching

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*Translated by John Behr, Copyright 1997, St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press