By the Book Prayer Requests for Sunday 8/14/2011

Also don't forget: the We Love Woodbridge festival, Saturday, August 27th, from 4 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday school classes have been asked to each contribute a game; we're going to do a balloon dart throw. John C. has committed to cooking the hot dogs. Help is welcomed, both with the both and the cooking, and you can ask pastors Doug Shank or Jay Holliday where else help is needed. Please jump in; we hope all the Potomac Crest family will participate and show our neighbors what PCBC is all about!

Praises, travel mercies:
On travel: the McManameys, in Michigan; Dee Stayner, heading out to Iowa Tuesday of next week. We wish them (and all the folks taking sons and daughters to college) safe travels and God speed. Praises for Gail Ryder, back from a family trip to Cancun. Daughter Raven is getting into shape to enter Navy basic training in September. Also, Larry Springer is back from a week in Wisconsin, including his 50th high school reunion.

Prayer requests:
Phillip RIdgway's dad is still struggling with diabetes issues, as well as his chest pains and blood pressure fluctuations. Having difficulty moving and feeling weak makes him depressed. We pray for the doctors' discernment and for help in healing. Please keep praying for him.
Larry Springer asked for prayers for Nora, his wife. Her paranoid symptoms have returned.
We're also praying for Jerry Ellis, who had a minor heart attack this past week and is still not feeling 100%; he goes to his cardiologist this week. Please pray for relief, and also for Jacquie (wife) and Jeremi (son).

Also pray for Mike Alberry (in the Divorce Care class)'s mom; she is in an intensive-care unit where she lives in upstate New York, and suffering from diabetes and kidney failure. He has gone up to be with her.

Please pray for our church and our pastor's message... with growth come growing pains. As he said in today's sermon, we need to be viral disciples -- disciples of Christ that everyone who comes in contact with wants to know better and tell others about us. Our church will become viral with God's Word when we are viral talmidim...