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Please Pray for Our Soldiers

I know many of you already include the brave men and women of our military in your prayers (as I do), but this week has been really tough on us and our friends here. This week 7 soldiers (and good friends) from our church deployed to Iraq for at least a year. Five of them have babies less than a year old. I'm sure if you read the papers or listen to the news, you know that the violence is escalating there.

I am just asking that you keep our church in your prayers, including asking God to help us make sure that we can meet all the needs of the families of these men. Although our church is small, we have great people with good intentions and we have plans in place to "take care of" these families. My main concern is not for the short term, but pray that in 6 months, 12 months, or more that we are still "here" for them. I speak from personal experience. Even in situations where I have the best of intentions, as time wears on, other "things" begin to take priority. I just pray that that doesn't happen.

posted by Jim @ 9:30 PM