Planting a Church through Prayer

By Daniel McCabe

February 10, 2024

Thanks to those of you who now follow us on Facebook. We have had 623 views of our first post since launching our site on February 1st. The more it’s shared the more excited I’m getting. Our interest meeting is still on schedule for the 18th, another reason to get excited. There aren’t a lot of new developments over the last ten days, but please note that I’m preaching tomorrow and that Carol is having surgery on her knee on the 20th. It hasn’t improved as initially thought. Please see requests #6 and #7 below.

Our Prayer Requests

—1. Pray for our first Interest Meeting, still scheduled for Sunday, February 18, at our home. We’re inviting everyone for lunch at 12:30 and then we’ll meet around 1:00 to talk about the formation of the church. Please pray that those who have shown interest will participate. Please pray specifically that God will raise up five individual households (singles, couples or families) to join us.

—2. Pray for KRISTY, one of the Panera Bread ladies known to Zach and for whom he has been greatly burdened–that she and her parents will attend our interest meeting as intimated–and for her grown daughter, ALEX, for whom we’ve been praying–that even though she may be scheduled to work that Sunday, she will nonetheless be drawn to the Lord through the ministry of our new church.

—3. Please continue to pray for CAROL and TRISH (who have both said that they’ll come on the 18th) as well as all the others for whom we’ve requested prayer, including TRACY, LORI, SEAN and BLAKE at Panera. Also, the Wisemans, ERIC and STEPHANIE, along with their children, MICHAEL, ABBY, SHYLO, ELI, LYLIAN, THEODORE and OWEN.

—4. Pray for FRANNIE who recently lost her husband of many years and who is grieving deeply. We can’t seem to find a time to visit her that works for us all, but we’ll keep trying.

—5. For the future worship music at the church. Perhaps the Lord will be gracious to lead us to a spiritually mature, like-minded man who can serve in this way. Music might be our greatest early challenge, so please continue to pray.

—6. For CAROL’s surgery on the 20th, yes, but more importantly that she’ll see God working in all the details surrounding the surgery and that those who attend our interest meeting will rally around her to encourage her.

—7. I’m preaching tomorrow for Men’s Day at Center Hill Baptist Church. We’ll be looking in particular at 1 Timothy 2. Thanks!

—Daniel

“Unless the LORD builds the house they labor in vain who build it” (Psalm 127:1).