XXIV Pentecost

Let Us Pray For…

Anglican Evangelism
Mrs. Jenny Noyes (Director)

Anglicans for Life
Mrs. Georgette Forney (President)

Anglican Global Mission Partners
Mr. Stewart Wicker (Chairman)

Special Prayer Petitions
from Georgette Forney of Anglicans for Life

Most important prayer request is that we will fulfill our mission: advocate the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death in the Church and society and successfully end abortion and euthanasia, protect embryos from research abuse, and promote abstinence and adoption.

I am also working on next year’s goals and budget which I will present at our Nov. 10th Board of Directors meeting and include in our Church Grant request going to over 500 Church Pastors. Please pray I will have a clear sense of what God is calling this ministry to accomplish and what He will fund, also pray for Churches to support AFL.

Another issue we pray for relates to the fact that we rent office space from St. Stephen’s Church in Sewickley, which is in the Diocese of Pittsburgh. The Diocese and majority of Churches have left the Episcopal Church including St. Stephen’s. There is concern that the Episcopal Church will at some point in the future try and take over our church property. Our computer support system and accounting/database management is all hosted and housed by St. Stephen’s. We have decided to convert to our own system. While this is a good thing it will also open pandora’s box on potential computer glitches. Please be praying for this conversion process which will begin in late November. Specifically ask the Lord to provide a smooth transition for the data and for all the computers to get connected properly.

Finally, I hope the door will open so I can present AFL’s ministry to the Common Cause Bishop’s Council, with the hope that they would endorse us and make the Sanctity of Life a plank in the foundation of the new province so all churches would be involved in doing life-ministry as part of fulfilling the great commission.



From the Scriptures
Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us. For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

Philippians 3:17-22 (ESV)

A Guiding Prayer
O God, our refuge and strength, who art the author of all godliness; Be ready, we beseech thee, to hear the devout prayers of thy Church; and grant that those things which we ask faithfully we may obtain effectually; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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

A Heritage Reflection
“God speaks not as man, but as GOD. His thoughts are very deep; and thence his words are of inexhaustible virtue. And the language of his messengers, also, is exact in the highest degree: for the words which were given them accurately answered the impression made upon their minds: and hence, as Luther says, ‘Divinity is nothing but the grammar of the language of the Holy Ghost.’ To understand this thoroughly, we should observe the emphasis which lies on every word; the holy affections expressed thereby, and the tempers shown in every writer. But how little are these, the latter especially regarded! though they are wonderfully diffused through the whole New Testament, and are in truth a continued commendation of him who acts, speaks, or writes.”

Rev. John Wesley (1703-1791)
“Preface,” Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament