Turbo Group - November 8 reflection

• Spend time in prayer for our congregation. Lift up all of the small groups that enable our weekly worship: Sunday School classes, music ministry, fellowship groups, the prayer chain. Pray for those members who are not connected with other Christians. 

Loving, giving God, thank you for West Grove United Methodist Church. I praise you for your body that you have knit together and the bonds that are made by the power of your Spirit. Lord, I raise up to your light and love each person connected to our family of faith, whether they have visited one time or been a member their entire lives. Meet each one's needs, physical, mental, emotional, financial. Protect them from all harm. Awaken our hearts and spirits that we may grow in grace and love.

Thank you for the men and women, boys and girls, who give of their gifts and talents to serve you, praise you, and lead your people in worship. For all who use their voices to sing, their fingers to play, their arms to care for children, their eyes to read, their ears to hear, anoint them with the power of your Holy Spirit that their offerings will be used to share your love.

Thank you for loving relationships you give to us with one another. For members of our faith family who are isolated or alone, show us how to reach out in love. Help us form places of connection, safety and trust. Guide us as we develop this new ministry of small groups, that those who are most in need of connection and those called to offer will be brought together in relationships of joy and peace. We ask all of this in your son's name, Amen.