By the Book Sunday School Class: Prayer Requests for Sunday 9/6/09

Praises, travel mercies:
Travel mercies for the Benfields, coming back this week from vacation. Also, Eileen Kramer took their daughter Laura as far as Atlanta, on her way to Pensacola Christian College; Eileen will fly back home from Atlanta.
We welcome Doug and Brenda Leivonen, visitors to our class.
Praises for AWANA! Eric Zerkle reports are now 30 T&Ters signed up (grades 3 to 6), and thirteen members have signed up to help; and similar numbers in all the other age groups. The Open House went well this past Wednesday, and they expect many more children to sign up this coming Wednesday in time for the first class. Please keep everyone in your prayers, for the children to be safe and unhurt and for many to be led to Christ. [Help is needed to paint the circle before Wednesday.]

Prayers:
Valerie Dinwiddie asked for prayers for her father, who has a lung infection that is not responding to oral antibiotics. He will be seeing an infectious disease specialist this week. They are trying to find out what other antibiotic will work, and they have to keep him off antibiotics for ten days to be able to culture what he has. They are trying to avoid putting him back in the hospital.
Larry Springer asked for continued prayers for Nora, his wife. There is no change in her condition yet.
Becky and Jason Bolton and a group of the youth will be hiking 30 miles of the Appalachian Trail the weekend of September 19-20, to raise money for the American Heart Association. Please see one of the youth or Jason or Becky if you want to sign up to contribute.
Jim and Claudia McManamey are dealing with the recovery of their dog from serious surgery.
Phil and Lisa Qualls asked for prayers for their son Travis, bitten by a dog yesterday while trying to rescue their pet from a fight in a dog park. Doctors will be checking for infection, but so far his hand seems OK.
Remember to pray for our school children: school starts in Prince William County this Tuesday (also in Fairfax).
Let's not forget to keep praying for the needs of people in economic distress in our own church and neighborhoods.   Also, please keep praying for the whole church, the leadership, and for God's will in all the many projects we are undertaking.