The Island Prayer Group has continued to meet over the summer, for two of those months, with the Lighthouse Fellowship. Their pastors, Gerard and Maureen Haberstro, and a small group of parishioners met with us one time, to recreate their weekly prayer service. Beryl Kinney and I were warmly welcomed and prayed over and personal as well as Island spiritual issues were prayed for. On the second evening, Pastor Dan Stinson and his wife, Linda, who have a house church in their home on Baseline Rd. met with us. Dan is especially trained to work with drug and alcohol concerns and has been working with the Middle and High School, Young Life and with GI town folk on such issues. Dan is also part of the GI Ministerium.
Some of my time was spent in meeting with the new pastor at Island Presbyterian and having some conversations about whether we as churches could lead a service of remembrance on 9/11 but it seems there was not time and interest to do that. At least I talked to someone at the DeGlopper Post and they too were involved in helping the NF Air Show that weekend.
We followed a lead from Linda McGuire to have a prayer garden set up in the prayer room on 9/11 for those who might want to light a candle for someone special or those who were lost. That was set-up but not well enough publicized or recognized from the pulpit and competing with all the other things going on – Rally Day – it was used by only a few. Unfortunately other competing meetings or activities for our pastors had been made far in advance so no participation was possible.
As we begin the fall program season there will be a trial period when two prayer groups will meet in the evening...with Lani Burkman taking leadership in on Monday, this month on the 19th and 20th ...to accommodate different people’s schedules. Next month we may be meeting at the Episcopal Church for at least one night and hope to attend other churches to experience their prayer practices. Our expectation is to return to the second Mon. Tues. schedule in Oct.
Hopeful that others will join us, both pastors and lay persons when we will continue to pray for the Island and our lives together.
I have personally taken a break from teaching an adult Christian Ed class on prayer this fall. Some future plans for more prayer in and after worship are still in the planning stage.
With prayers for our life together here at Trinity and our new pastoral team of Rev. Baird and Rev. Lange and their families. Prayer Ministries Coordinator, Rev. Sue Kaiser, retired
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